One evening when (Dumas) was returning from a ball, wet through and chilled, instead of going up to his own room he stopped at Ida's, (his wife's), knowing that he should find a fire there. Ida, who had already gone to bed, received him crossly, but Alexander was long-suffering; he peacefully warmed his feet and then went to a table and began to work.
Suddenly the door of the dressing-room opened and, clad in his shirt, Roger de Beauvoir appeared. . . . Alexander assumed a high tone and Beauvoir explained that it was freezing in the dressing-room and that no one could possibly stay there. Without replying, Alexander marched up and down the room with long strides and the exercise seemed to appease him.
Outside the rain was beating against the window. Could one, in all conscience, put any one out in such weather? Dumas invited Beauvoir to spend the night in an armchair, while he went to bed next to Ida.
A few minutes later, distressed to see the poor fellow shivering before the dying fire, he told Roger to come to bed, too. And there they lay, the three of them, sleeping the sleep of innocence.
In the morning Alexander woke up first, looked long at the two guilty ones beside him, and then plucked at Beauvoir's shirt sleeve. "Shall two old friends," said he "quarrel about a woman, even when she's a lawful wife? That would be stupid," and seizing the hand of the handsome Roger across Ida's sleeping form, he added: "Roger, let us become reconciled like the ancient Romans, on this public place."
(source, The Fourth Musketeer )
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@apocalypsaed asked: ❝ 25 ❞ ➥ 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐒𝐀𝐌 𝐃𝐑𝐀𝐊𝐄 ➥ 𝐓𝐎 𝐑𝐀𝐅𝐄 𝐀𝐃𝐋𝐄𝐑
⸻ "BUT I CAN'T HELP MYSELF. WHEN YOU GET CLOSE TO ME, BABY, MY TONGUE GOES NUMB."
nonsense by sabrina carpenter
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@howaerds asked: "Do we need to get you a juice box or something?" { cass to dominic 😭 }
⸻ "DO I LOOK LIKE A SEVEN YEAR OLD CHILD, CASS?"
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@imyang
KNUCKLES VC YES! FOX! HONOR IS IMPORTANT WE SHOULD ALL HONOR
he has the best big brother, nobody else has a better one than he does.
“people should honor others more often.”
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Y’all heard of this My Chemical Romance band? They’re pretty good.
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another vent post, excuse me
God. There have been THREE publishers listed for this one GD book. I just want to write a releases post. If I look a fourth time will there be yet another one???
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