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"I implore a thousand pardons, Madame...." began my friend. "Comment! A thousand pardons for a single offence!" exclaimed the lady. "What an unreasonable culprit!" To which she added, quite audibly, though behind the temporary shelter of her fan: "Who is this beau garçon whom you seem to have brought with you?"
The comic poets will also occasionally borrow a classical allusion. The following is from Swift's "Description of a City Shower": "Boxed in a chair the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds; he trembles from within.
His cousin had an arch greeting in readiness. "Well, you've been doing a pretty mash, you have!" she cried, and jogged him with her elbow. "No wonder you'd no eyes for poor us. What price Miss Woodward's gloves this morning!" at which Bob laughed, looked sly, and tapped his breast pocket. It was time to be moving homewards. Tilly and her beau led the way.
Dick is the only surviving Beau of the last Age, and Tom almost the only one that keeps up that Order of Men in this.
As the fiacre bore to Paris Savarin and Graham, the former said, "I cannot conceive what rich simpleton could entertain so high an opinion of Gustave Rameau as to select a man so young, and of reputation though promising so undecided, for an enterprise which requires such a degree of tact and judgment as the conduct of a new journal, and a journal, too, which is to address itself to the beau monde.
His chief recommendation is that he writes blatantly concerning commonplaces, regardless of music or rhythm. Here's a bit of him concerning the taming of oxen. He says the tamer lives in a "'Placid pastoral region. "Stop, stop!" cried Lorimer, putting his hands to his ears. "This is a practical joke, Beau! No one would call that jargon poetry!" "Oh! wouldn't they though!" exclaimed Lovelace.
Presently a little window-casement opened above him; Gaston of Béarn poked out his head. 'Beau sire, he says, 'what entertainment is this for the Count your son? 'No son of mine, by the Face! cried the King. 'Let that woman I have caged at home answer for him, who defies me for ever. Let me in, thou sickly dog. Gaston said, 'Beau sire, you shall come in if you will, and if you come in peace.
Near the window, not far from the table which was surrounded by the sewing-women, stood a smaller table where Ruth was engaged, coloring designs for costumes. The gossip of the Washington beau monde, very naturally furnished a theme for the lively tongues of the needle-women.
These merits have ceased to be disputed, but, though a loyal Tennysonian, I have never quite been able to reconcile myself to Maud as a whole. The hero is an unwholesome young man, and not of an original kind. He is un beau tenebreux of 1830. I suppose it has been observed that he is merely The Master of Ravenswood in modern costume, and without Lady Ashton. Her part is taken by Maud's brother.
Dreux; it had not dimmed his pride nor coarsened his appreciation of beauty; he remained the gentle, suave, and agreeably cynical beau. Young girls had been known to rave over him, despite their mother's frowns; fathers and brothers called him Bernie and greeted him warmly at their clubs. But aside from Mr.
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