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Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 3 3 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Mademoiselle's campaigns. (search)
ting two such eagles together. So passed her life, and at last, like many a match-making lady, she baffled all the gossips, and left them all in laughter when her choice was made. The tale stands embalmed forever in the famous letter of Madame de Sevigne to her cousin, M. de Coulanges, written on Monday, December 15,.1670. It can never be translated too often, so let us risk it again, I have now to announce to you the most astonishing circumstance, the most surprising, most marvellous, false, mere gossip, stuff, and nonsense,--if, finally, you say hard things about us, we do not complain; we took the news in the same way. Adieu! the letters by this post will show you whether we have told the truth. Poor Mademoiselle! Madame de Sevigne was right in one thing,--if it were not done promptly, it might prove impracticable. Like Ralph Roister Doister, she should haa been married oa Sunday. Duly the contract was signed, by which Lauzun took the name of M. de Montpensier and