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'What an inspiration! What a COMBLE DE JOIE INDEED! What is the Schnapps? He looked at it, and laughed. 'Heidelbeer! he said. 'No! From the bilberries under the snow. Doesn't it look as if it were distilled from snow. Can you she sniffed, and sniffed at the bottle 'can you smell bilberries? Isn't it wonderful? It is exactly as if one could smell them through the snow.
Entre son berceau et sa tombe qu'y a-t-il? la carriere d'un soldat parvenu, des champs de bataille, une mer de sang, un trone, puis du sang encore, et des fers. Sa vie, c'est l'arc en ciel; les deux points extremes touchent la terre, la comble lumi-neuse mesure les cieux.
Sisson's flute. It's an instrument I like extremely." "There now. You see you may work the miracle, Mr. Sisson. Won't you play to us?" "I'm afraid I didn't bring my flute along," said Aaron "I didn't want to arrive with a little bag." "Quite!" said Algy. "What a pity it wouldn't go in your pocket." "Not music and all," said Aaron. "Dear me! What a comble of disappointment.
You seem, he went on more pleasantly, as Celestine grew calmer under his authoritative eye, 'to be even more glad than other people that Mr Manderson is out of the way. I could almost suspect, Celestine, that Mr Manderson did not take as much notice of you as you thought necessary and right. 'A peine s'il m'avait regarde! Celestine answered simply. 'Ca, c'est un comble! observed Trent.
Duke stretched himself amiably, affecting not to hear; and when this pretence became so obvious that even a dog could keep it up no longer, sat down in a corner, facing it, his back to his master, and his head perpendicular, nose upward, supported by the convergence of the two walls. This, from a dog, is the last word, the comble of the immutable.
On the same day he penned a delighted letter to his sister, containing the exultant words: "For twenty-four hours, therefore, there has now existed a Madame Eve de Balzac, nee Rzewuska, or a Madame Honore de Balzac, or a Madame de Balzac the younger." He could hardly believe in his own good fortune, and the joyful letter finishes with the words, "Ton frere Honore, au comble du bonheur!"
There was a wild excitement over this little episode. The dog of a Frenchman killed, for culinary purposes, by an Arab; it was the comble of temerity! The owner of the animal, on hearing the news, buckled on his revolver and repaired to the shop with the avowed intention of shooting his man, whom the police, fortunately, had already conjured into some safe place of custody.
Trust your delicacy to me I will be dignity itself. Can you doubt it? Believe me, much as I wish to see you what and where you ought to be in society, I would not there it is, begging Lady Frances Arlington's pardon, that Mrs. Falconer and I differ in character essentially, and de fond en comble.
"A peine s'il m'avait regardé!" Célestine answered simply. "Ca, c'est un comble!" observed Trent. "You are a nice young woman for a small tea-party, I don't think. A star upon your birthday burned, whose fierce, serene, red, pulseless planet never yearned in heaven, Célestine. Mademoiselle, I am busy. Bon jour. You certainly are a beauty!" Célestine took this as a scarcely-expected compliment.
I need not chronicle my next three days to me the most glorious "trois jours" of my life. Clara had evidently singled me out and preferred me to all the rest. It was beside me she rode upon my arm she leaned in walking and, to comble me with delight unutterable, I overheard her say to my uncle, "Oh, I doat upon poor Harry! And it is so pleasant, for I'm sure Mortimer will be so jealous."
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