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"Some day I know she will hold out the olive-branch, but what if he refuses it?" "You literary people are dreadfully difficile." "True. Our jealousies are ferocious, but so are the jealousies of thousands who can neither read nor write." "Jealousy," she said, forgetting to eat in her keen interest in the subject. "I told you I didn't believe myself capable of it, but I don't know.
Little Bilham tossed up his chin. "Of course she's difficile on any lines! What else in the world ARE our Mamies the real, the right ones?" "I see, I see," our friend repeated, charmed by the responsive wisdom he had ended by so richly extracting. "Mamie is one of the real and the right." "The very thing itself."
"Beauties!" exclaimed Xavier, "La Nouvelle Orleans it is the home of beauty, Michie. They promenade themselves on the levee, they look down from ze gallerie, mais " "But what, Xavier?" "But, mon Dieu, Michie, they are vair' difficile. They are not like Englis' beauties, there is the father and the mother, and the convent." And Xavier, who had a wen under his eye, laid his finger on it.
Can you recollect your uncle telling you that he used your revolver to shoot the dog with, or not? That is what I want to know." She shrugged her shoulders and spread out her hands. "It is so difficile. I am trying to remember, and the matter seemed then so trivial! But there is no reason to doubt my uncle, Mr.
Monsieur Trevor," said Phineas. She smiled again. And the strange thing about her smile was that it was a matter of her lips and rarely of her eyes, which always maintained the haunting sadness of their tragic depths. "Monsieur Trevor," she repeated imitatively. "And yours, monsieur?" "McPhail." "Mac-Fêle; c'est assez difficile. And yours?" Mo guessed. "Shendish," said he.
Not that I'm prejudiced in its favor, but it might give you a glimmering of what this difficile thing `culture' really is." The rustics were droning a church anthem. The glow of the ale was in Mr. Wrenn.
Flamand is so very far away, and ze ascent up ze cliffs difficile. If monsieur will be so good, zare is a café near by where it is quite posseeble to dine." Relieved of the governor's constant watchfulness Bäader became himself. He bustled about the restaurant, called for "Cancale spéciale," a variety of oysters apparently entirely unknown to the landlord, and interviewed the chef himself.
It is quelque chose un peu difficile, mais oui. But then Monsieur remembers that lady, the Countess ?" "Countess? Whom do you mean?" "Who but our madame, the Countess St. Auban in her own right? She who gave me my Jeanne at Tallwoods, Monsieur! Have you not known? She is, here. She is chez nous.
Such a man would be with difficulty brought to surrender his prize. Again, there was his love for me. 'Pater est, Pamphile; difficile est. How was this vast conceit of a not unreal paternal love to be encountered? The sense of honour and of decency might appeal to him personally; would either of them get a hearing if he fancied them to be standing in opposition to my dearest interests?
And why did it matter so much to a man who knew everything? who held all the classics and all the Renaissance in the hollow of his hand, to whom "Latin was no more difficile, than to a blackbird 'tis to whistle"? Then, gradually, she began to have the courage to laugh; to try a little soft teasing of her new friend and mentor, who was at once so wonderful and so absurd.
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