should be appropriated by one woman." She found, she said, "more happiness in the appellation of mistress or concubine, than in that of wife or empress," and by humiliating herself in him, she hoped to gain a stronger hold over his heart.
* * * * * The park is really delightful.

Alleys wind through the woods and clusters of trees bend over the meandering stream.

You can hear the bubbling water and feel the coolness of the foliage.

If we were irritated by the bad taste displayed here, it was because we had just left Clisson, which has a real, simple, and solid beauty, and after all, this bad taste is not that of our contemporaries.

But what is, in fact, bad taste?
Invariably it is the taste of the period which has preceded ours.