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She stared, but was soon on the defensive. "Miladi is in a little error!" she said rapidly and with soft persuasiveness. "It is la mode. Miladi has perhaps lived in a country where the fashions are different. But if she will ask the most amiable Sieur Bruce-Errington, she will find that her dress is quite in keeping with les convenances." A pained blush crimsoned Thelma's fair cheek.
Let me make you my compliments, Mr. Naseby. The Squire was too much relieved to be angry. 'My dear, said he to Esther, 'you must not agitate yourself. 'She had better go up and see him right away, suggested Van Tromp. 'I had not ventured to propose it, replied the Squire. 'LES CONVENANCES, I believe 'JE M'EN FICHE, cried the Admiral, snapping his fingers.
"Well, I hope you left some suitable excuse," said her husband, somewhat appeased, as he added a dash of cayenne pepper to the soup. "No, I left no excuse. I told Joe to say I was out, that was all." "Why, my dear, I should think you'd understand by this time that people don't do such things; we've got to observe les convenances if we ever expect to get on and keep up with the procession.
If only Philip Berknowles had been a man to make fast friends amongst his own class, some of those friends might have come to his daughter's rescue now. But Berknowles had lived his own life since the death of his wife, an easy-going country gentleman in a county mostly inhabited by squireens and cottage folk, caring little for the convenances and with no taste for women's society.
For Bice does not understand the convenances, nor remember that this is England, where people meet only in the drawing-room." "Divine forgetfulness!" murmured Derwentwater. Jock, for his part, turned his back with a certain sense of shame. He had liked it, but he had not thought it right.
Let me make you my compliments, Mr. Naseby." The Squire was too much relieved to be angry. "My dear," said he to Esther, "you must not agitate yourself." "She had better go up and see him right away," suggested Van Tromp. "I had not ventured to propose it," replied the Squire. "Les convenances, I believe " "Je m'en fiche," cried the Admiral, snapping his fingers.
Her refusal to wink at the Princess's goings-on, her austere, if provincial, regard for the convenances, had cost her the place, and from these purpureal heights she had fallen lower and lower, till she struck the attic of the Hôtel des Tourterelles. But even a haloed past does not give one a licence to annoy one's neighbours.
It seemed to her, as she cast it away, a horrible gaud, a thing made of tinsel, yet a thing that could destroy the soul and blind the eyes and numb the heart. She had never been free, she had always been the veriest slave, the slave of things, of people, of convenances, and of circumstances. Doctor Epinard had spoken something of the truth.
For I began to be anxious how Helene would be able to comport herself in the company of one so dainty and full of devices and convenances as the lady of the Weiss Thor. But, by my faith, I need not have troubled about our little lass. For if there were any embarrassed, that one was certainly not Helene.
The sincerely pious folk look upon the liberals as persons whose talk is rather profane, and who offend religious feelings by making sacred subjects a theme for rhetorical display. They shock the convenances of sentiment, and affront the delicacy of conscience by the indiscreet familiarities they take with the great mysteries of the inner life.
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