Murad the Unlucky, and Other Tales

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ad of being seduced by bad example, they only showed anxiety to avoid companions of their own age who were dishonest, idle, or profligate. Victoire's cousin

you in leading-strings?-I assure you, nuns, and school-mistresses, and schools, and all that sort of thing, are out of fashion now-we have abolished all that-we are to live a life of reason now-and all soon to be equal, I can tell you; let your Madame de Fleury look to that, and look to it yourself;

e; "but this I know: that I never can or will be ungrateful to Madame de Fleury. Disengage myse

ak as a friend, and I have no more time to reason with you; for

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had, as was our just share, such delicious marangues and charming ribands!-Oh, Victoire, believe me, you will never get such things by going to school, or saying your prayers either. You may look with as much scorn and indignation as you

n right and wrong, Manon: politic

Manon. "I cannot stay to convince you now-but this I ca

y of your secrets, Manon,

dge. "I can tell you that your fine friends will in a few days not be able to protect you. The Abbé Tracassier is in love with a dear friend of mine, and I know all the secrets of state from her-and I kn

agreed but too well with other circumstances, which alarmed this lady for the safety of her husband. A man of his abilities, integrity, and fortune, could not in such times hope to escape persecution. He was inclined t

ligence, made his escape from Paris; and the very next day placards were put up in e

ung people; but as he was unable to give any just reason for his dislike, Madame de Fleury persisted in her choice, and was at last obliged to assert, in opposition to the domineering abbé, her right to judge and decide in her own affairs. With seeming politeness, he begged ten thousand pardons for his conscientious interference. No more was said upon the subject; and as he did not totally withdraw from her society till the revolution broke out, she did not suspect that she had anything to fear from his resentment. His manners and opinions changed suddenly with the times; the mask of religion was thrown off; and now, instead of objecting to Sister Frances as not being sufficiently strict and orthodox in her tenets, he boldly declared that a nun was not a fit person to be intrusted with the education of any of the young citizens-they should all be des élèves de la patrie. The abbé, become a member of the Committee of Public Safety, denounced Madame de Fleury, in the strange jargon of the day, as "the fosterer of a swarm of bad citizens, who were n