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the idea of monarchy is still the same; it is not connected with personalities.” That was true too; but kings who personify an idea should not, cannot, fall below a certain level for generations; if they do, my dear brother-in-law, the idea suffers too.
Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.
THE RAINS had come, the rains had gone, and the sun was back on its throne like an absolute monarch kept off it for a week by his subjects’ barricades, and now reigning once again, choleric but under constitutional restraint. The heat braced without burning, the light domineered but let colors live; from the soil cautiously sprouted clover and mint, and on faces appeared diffident hopes.
great joys are silent.
from that moment there began, for him and his family, that process of continual refining which in the course of three generations transforms innocent peasants into defenseless gentry.
what a mess the world must seem to one who knew neither mathematics nor theology. “O
“I’m seventy-three years old, and all in all I may have lived, really lived, a total of two
