Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Name: The Little French Girl — Part 2. Chapter 5
Author: Anne Douglas Sedgwick

The Little French Girl — Part 2… (1924)

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“The Little French Girl — Part 2. Chapter 5”, published in 1924, is a work by Anne Douglas Sedgwick. It explores elements such as Giles, Vervier and Alix.

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl — Part 2… (1924)

“ Giles said that they heard of her.
“Femme exécrable!” madame Dumont exclaimed. “Femme sans cœur! How many lives did she not destroy!”
“Ah, but I am always on the side of the woman, when it comes to les affaires de cœur,” said mademoiselle Fontaine, with a smile at Giles. “We are so often the losers that I feel a certain satisfaction when a woman, even if ruthlessly, redresses the balance. And with all its romanticism, what a great talent it was, that of the good George! Do not say too much ill of her.”
“Good! You can call a woman good who tricks one lover under the nose of the other! ”

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl — Part 2… (1924)

“ What fate more pitiful for a beautiful woman than to find a rival in her daughter!”
“Nothing of that sort could ever happen between Alix and her mother,” said Giles angrily.
“Nothing of that sort. Précisément. You, a young man, and I, an old woman, see eye to eye when it comes to such a comparison,” madame Dumont disconcertingly concurred. “La petite Alix is not of a type to seduce. She has distinction; an air of race; mais elle n'est pas séduisante!—Tandis que la mère!”—and madame Dumont, with eye and hand uplifted, took Heaven to witness of her appreciation. ”

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl — Part 2… (1924)

“ Do you forget Pagello and Alfred de Musset!” cried madame Dumont. “As for Musset; let it pass; he was not one to be pitied.—But Chopin! A man as simple as a child. Non. C'était un monstre!” madame Dumont declared.
“And I will leave you to tell monsieur Giles what you think of George Sand while I ask mademoiselle Alix to come upstairs with me and see a new dress that has come from Paris,” said mademoiselle Blanche, thus further demonstrating her intelligence to Giles, for indeed madame Dumont's reminiscences had begun to make him uneasy. ”

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl — Part 2… (1924)

“ Her smile hurt Giles. Its unconsciousness of what madame Dumont really meant; her ignorance of what such old harpies thought and said of her mother. “Horrible old creature!” he could not repress.
“Horrible?” Alix was evidently surprised. “That is very severe.”
“I want to be severe. I think she is quite horrible.”
“It is always horrible to be so old. But she is not stupid, Giles. She has been a great actress; at least, almost great. Monsieur de Maubert saw her act years ago, and says that it was good. ”

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl — Part 2… (1924)

“ He felt himself foolishly blushing.
“Giles never talks much at breakfast,” Alix commented.
“I don't get much chance to, at home, do I?” said Giles, grateful for her intervention.
“You shall have every chance here,” said madame Vervier. “We rarely have a young English philosopher among us. We must profit by the occasion.” ”

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl — Part 2… (1924)

“ Albertine was laying breakfast on the verandah, and Giles stood leaning against a pillar listening to the song. At its end madame Vervier soberly commended the singer, yet turned a leaf, here and there, to suggest an alteration. “Qu'as-tu fait de ta jeunesse?” monsieur de Valenbois sang again, with a new poignancy; and yet again. “Bien; très bien,” said madame Vervier's quiet voice.
Then monsieur de Maubert appeared, and they came out to greet him and Giles. ”

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl — Part 2… (1924)

“ Ah, Maman! no excuses!! Je vous connais. Economy is the motive!—She has never escaped the fear that unless one saves all one's sous one may die in indigence.”
“Chicory, Blanche? What do you say of chicory?” the old lady inquired, leaning an ear towards her grandchild. “Mais c'est très sain, la chicorée. Ca rafraichit le sang.—If you drink chicory every day in your coffee”—and now it was an eye she turned, half closed in sagacious admonition, on the startled Giles—“you will not need to purge yourself, my young man.” ”

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl — Part 2… (1924)

“ I have known him for many years,” said Alix. “Ever since Maman admired a picture of his and bought it and then found him, starving, with his little wife. Maman has been their good angel always. Success is coming to him now; now when it is too late. And mademoiselle Fontaine is an old habituée of Maman's salon. I have not seen her in the country before. She has taken this little villa for the summer to be near Maman. She does not seem to belong to the country. We will go one day to have tea with her and her mother and old grandmother and see the little 'fox,' ” Alix added. ”

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl — Part 2… (1924)

“ She walked, her russet head bent down, a little as she had walked in the Bois; meditating, it seemed. He heard her afterwards on the verandah, in the salon below, moving quietly to and fro. Her calm voice directed Albertine. '“Ne réveillez pas mademoiselle. ”

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