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How great power Fortune hath in humane affaires, and what meanes there is to resist it.
'I am a man of business, he said, 'and always I would put things through "right now," as they say in the States. You are a poet. Les affaires you detest them. So be it. But with me you will deal, eh? What you have said just now gives me furiously to hope. Soames had not moved, except to light a fresh cigarette.
My affections were already pledged; promised, it is true, to one who gave nothing in return, and who, perhaps, even loved another. Ah, there was the rub; that one confounded suspicion, lurking in the rear, chilled my courage and wounded my spirit. If there be anything more disheartening to an Irishman, in his little affaires de coeur, than another, it is the sense of rivalry.
Well 'e is a nice leetle fellow but 'e is just a leetle fellow with a soft 'eart and a soft 'ead. Not your sort. And, you're not 'is sort. 'E's frightened of you. 'E want someone who pat 'is 'ead and let 'im cry on 'is shoulder. You can't 'elp 'im and you fuss over 'im you come 'ere and try to put 'is 'eart affaires in order and it's no use at all. C'est ridicule, enfin."
He made the moody Nemours comprehend that, in truth, he had no reason to complain of an inevitable liaison, "qui ne lui devoit pas être suspecte, puisqu'on voulait lui en rendre compte, et ne s'en servir que pour lui donner la principale part aux affaires." At the same time, "he urged M. le Prince to occupy himself with Madame de Châtillon, and to give her in freehold the estate of Merlon."
Concernyng diseasing lesse the countrie, and men, I saie that the ordinaunce, either evill or little that it bee, causeth not any disease, for that this order doeth not take menne from any of their businesse, it bindeth them not, that thei cannot go to doe any of their affaires: for that it bindeth them onely in the idell daies, to assemble together, to exercise them, the whiche thyng doeth not hurt, neither to the countrie, nor to the men, but rather to yong men it shall bryng delite: For that where vilie on the holy daies thei stande idell in tipplyng houses, thei will go for pleasure to those exercises, for that the handlyng of weapons, as it is a goodly spectacle, so unto yong men it is pleasaunt.
L'Ambassadeur en France au Ministre des Affaires Etrangères. Paris, le 14/27 Juillet 1914.
The paths were flooded; and the classic statues looked as though they had a dismal time of it, in the general shower bath. My passport went through the office of the American embassy, prefecture of the police, and the bureau des affaires etrangeres, and the Swiss legation, and we were all right for the frontier. Our fair hostesses are all Alpine mountaineers, posted up in mountain lore.
Les affaires vont tres mal la-bas." Aunt M says she wishes you had been at a matinee which Baroness Nathaniel Rothschild gave this afternoon at her beautiful new palace in the Faubourg St.-Honore. At the entrance there were ten servants in gorgeous livery, and a huissier who rattled his mace down on the pavement as each guest passed.
"'Toute la Basse Silesie, la riviere de Neisse pour limite, la ville de Neisse a nous, aussi bien que Glatz; de l'autre cote de l'Oder l'ancien limite entre les Duches de Brieg et d'Oppeln. Namslau a nous. Les affaires de religion IN STATU QUO. Point de dependance de la Boheme; cession eternelle. En echange nous n'irons pas plus loin.