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"I suppose," she said as Morton followed her out into the hall, "mamma and I had better go in the phaeton." "I was thinking that Lady Augustus might consent to travel with Mr. Gotobed and that you and I might have the phaeton." "Of course it would be very pleasant," she answered smiling. "Then why not let it be so?" "There are convenances."
To-day was the last day that I was to spend in Moscow, and it was to be spent, by Papa's orders, in my paying a round of calls which he had written out for me on a piece of paper his first solicitude on our account being not so much for our morals or our education as for our due observance of the convenances.
Percy was twenty-eight, and looked more than his age. Maurice was twenty-four, and looked less. Percy was fair his features were admirable his expression and manner had actually no other fault than that of being too still and languid. Percy was a man of the world, understood and respected "les convenances," and never shocked anybody.
"Cut that part," said Donovan. "Nobody wants to start in abusing you." "I am," said the King with an air of simple pride, "I am a blackguard, the blackest guard of all. Good. But I am a King and I am a gentleman. Good. I know that poor Corinne must go. She cannot stay here. That is what you would say, and you are right. I know it. There are les convenances. There is the charming Miss Donovan."
A distinguished personage, known for his tactful observance of convenances that others forgot, had made a point of challenging this gentlemanly apparition, and had followed it up with courteous civilities, which led to exchange of much respect but no increase of acquaintance.
For, Captain Judah was a stage driver, and having brought his horn along as a signal compliment to the occasion, he was now conducting the first stages of the ball with those loud flourishes and elegant social convenances which only those sophisticated by extreme culture are supposed to understand. "Tar-a-ta! tar-a-ta!" I saw that Vesty and Gurdon had risen to dance together.
I shall complain to your superiors I shall bring the matter before the British ambassador. Do you realize who and what I am?" "You appear to be a gentleman with an uncontrollable temper, whose conduct is most improper. I must ask you to behave yourself, to respect the convenances, or I shall be compelled to show you the door." "I will not be put down in this way, I will speak; I I "
I would only like to put those women who malign me into my place for a single year. Perhaps they would become even more reckless of the convenances than I am!" "My dear Winnie," he said, "what's the use of discussing such an old and threadbare theme? Things are not always what they seem, as the man with a squint said when he thought he saw two sovereigns where there was but one.
No other man had ever brought a sensation like that into her life, although she had met many types of men in Paris, had known well talented men of acknowledged bad character, reckless of the convenances, men who snapped their fingers at all the prejudices of the orthodox, and who made no distinction between virtues and vices, following only their own inclinations. Such a man was Dick Garstin.
"Ah," said Madame Chevillon comfortably, "I thought Mademoiselle was artist; and for the artists and the Spaniards the convenances exist not. But Mademoiselle is also English. They eat the convenances every day with the soup. See then, my cherished. The English man, he is not a dangerous fool, only a beast of the good God; he has the atelier and the room at the end of the corridor.
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