Understanding then the meaning of their laughter, and the implied insult to Guida, Maitresse Aimable's voice came ravaging out of the silence where it lay hid so often and so long, and the signalmen went their ways shamefacedly.
Maitresse Aimable turned and looked towards Jean, but Jean turned away his head.
By the time he reached the doorway, however, Jean had retreated to the veille by the chimney behindMaitresse Aimable, who sat in a great stave-chair mending a net.
With churlish insolence they entered Guida's hut before Maitresse Aimable could prevent it.
After her first exclamation of welcome to mother and child, Maitresse Aimable struggled painfully for her voice.
When she had recovered a little she took the child from Maitresse Aimable, and pressing him to her bosom placed him in the Sieur de Mauprat's great arm-chair.
Politely handing it to her, he said: "Ah, Maitresse Aimable, it is as if you had never stirred all these years!
I have since thought, that the maitresse d'hôtel had not another knife in her house, but what was in use.
It was pleasant at first, until many more people came than the house would hold, but that is what the "Maitresse de Maison" particularly aims at.
By that time Madame de Montespan was firmly established as maitresse en titre, and in January of 1669 she gave birth to the Duke of Maine, the first of the seven children she was to bear the King.
But no other ~maitresse en titre~ had ruled him and France since then.
She had not even craved on her own account to be the king's ~maitresse en titre~.
Maitresse Aimable's face grew hotter; she did not speak, but patted Guida's back with her heavy hand and nodded complacently.
What further Maitresse Aimable said was proof that if she knew little and spake little, she knew that little well; and if she had gathered meagrely from life, she had at least winnowed out some small handfuls of grain from the straw and chaff.
They would only be gone one night, and, as Maitresse Aimable said, the Sieur de Mauprat could very well make shift for once.
And after her fashion, Maitresse Aimable loved Jean Touzel as it is given to few to love.
Among those who chanced to visit the cottage wasMaitresse Aimable.
To sail with Jean Touzel was practically to be alone, for Maitresse Aimable never talked; and Jean knew Guida's ways, knew when she wished to be quiet.
She herself seemed to readMaitresse Aimable all at once--read her by virtue, and in the light, of true love, the primitive and consuming feeling in the breast of each for a man.
Again and again Jean Touzel had eyed these moving specks with serious interest; and Maitresse Aimable eyed Jean, for Jean never looked so often at anything without good reason.
Maitresse Aimable again nodded, and her arm drew closer about Guida.
The saucy yawl had aboard Maitresse Aimable, Guida, and a lad to assist Jean in working the sails.
As a matter of fact Charles's maitresse en titre regarded the "Mademoiselle" as nothing more dangerous than a pretty, winsome child.
One of my friends put it rather graphically: "Si on a un ruban rose dans les cheveux on a tout de suite l'air d'etre la maitresse de Rochefort.
Dormy had of late haunted the precincts of the Place du Vier Prison, and was the only person besides Maitresse Aimable whom Guida welcomed.
Maitresse Aimable shook her great head slowly on the vast shoulders, and shut her heavy eyelids.
Maitresse Aimable's eyes opened wide, and again she shook her head.
Go tellMaitresse Aimable that she too was a good prophet.
Madame Amenaide was, in fact, no other than the maitresse en titre of the Monsieur de Galgenstein, who had her a great bargain from the Duke de Rohan-Chabot at Paris.
In the words of Maitresse Aimable, "Ah bah, so it goes.
Maitresse Aimable smiled, then she tried to speak, but her voice broke.
Two great tears were rolling down Maitresse Aimable's cheeks.
Maitresse Aimable, and she put Guida's letter in her bosom.
Maitresse Aimable shook her head once more, and drew from her pocket a letter.
Maitresse Aimable spread the letter out and looked at it lovingly.
The danger from first to last that she ran from the maitresse en titre was always more present than the chance of succeeding the Queen.
Buckingham, who had once been her lover, gave the coup de grace to the maitresse en titre, though it was left to others to provide her successor.
Without some such explanation it seems impossible to us to account for the innumerable infidelities that Lady Castlemaine indulged in while maitresse en titre.
As she played the role of maitresseen titre as it was played in France there is nothing in her story henceforth to shock the most modest susceptibilities.
After the visit at Euston Louise de Keroual was the acknowledged maitresse en titre in place of the termagant Cleveland, retired.
As one of many instances of the bond, of which history does not afford a parallel, between a king and a maitresse en titre this attempt of Lady Castlemaine to get "even with" Charles is striking.
He at once sent Mademoiselle de Keroual over to Lord Arlington at his own expense, whereby he adroitly made a friend of the future maitresse en titre for himself and Arlington.
Do no de fine gentlewomanMaitresse Mathe dwell in this plashe?
Abrantès might perfectly well have been the first maitresse de maison to whom it happened.
A genuine maitresse de maison in Paris has no affections, no ties, save those of her salon.
Meanwhile, from a spirit of delicacy, avoiding the Place du Vier Prison, he visited Maitresse Aimable, and from day to day learned all that happened to Guida.
Will you run and ask Maitresse Aimable to come here to me soon?
So it chanced that soon only Maitresse Aimable came--she who asked no questions, desired no secrets--and Dormy Jamais.
Carterette was awed by her face, and saying that she would go at once to Maitresse Aimable, she started towards the door, but as quickly stopped and came back to Guida.
As of old, without her knowledge, he did many things for her through the sameMaitresse Aimable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maitresse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
