FORE:Then, taking the hand of Mme. de Polignac she turned it over several times, examining it carefully, and said: ��You are, like the other, in the service of the same lady, who loves you so much that she confides to you her most precious jewels. You love her just as much, but still, in a short time you will leave that lady in haste, and what is more, you will not feel tranquil until you have put three great rivers between you and her. She will cry bitterly when you leave her and yet be very glad of the separation.��The Comtesse de Noailles was a most unfortunate choice to have made for the post in question; for although a woman of the highest character, religious, charitable, and honourable, she was so stiff, precise, [187] and absolutely the slave of every detail of court etiquette that she only tormented and estranged the young girl, who was ready to be conciliated, and whom she might have influenced and helped. The Dauphine, however, an impetuous, thoughtless girl of fifteen, accustomed to the freedom of her own family life at the court of Vienna, hated and ridiculed the absurd restrictions of the French Court, called the Countess ��Madame l��Etiquette,�� and took her own way.

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FORE:The Conciergerie was crowded, but one of the prisoners, Mme. Laret, gave up her bed to the old Mar��chale; Mme. d��Ayen laid herself upon a pallet on the floor, and the Vicomtesse, saying, ��What is the use of resting on the eve of eternity?�� sat all night reading, by the light of a candle, a New Testament she had borrowed, and saying prayers.

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