The Novels of Lord Lytton: The ParisiansAthenaeum society, 1897 |
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Página 160 - Rameau listened languidly, but with a profound conviction that the physician thoroughly understood his case. Lying helpless on his bed, he had no desire for orgies at the Maison Doree ; with parched lips thirsty for innocent tisane of lime-blossoms, the thought of absinthe was as odious to him as the liquid fire of Phlegethon. If ever sinner became suddenly convinced that there was a good deal to be said in favour of a moral life, that sinner at the moment I speak of was Gustave Rameau.
Página 134 - My dear boy," said Bevil, very much astonished, " I really did not know that your interest in the young lady was so great. If I have wounded you in relating a mere on dit picked up at the Jockey Club, I beg you a thousand pardons. I dare say there was not a word of truth in it.