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Lady Jocelyn enjoyed the fun, and still more the serious way in which her relatives regarded it. 'This comes of Rose having friends, Emily, said Mrs. Shorne. There would have been a dispute to arrange between Lady Jocelyn and Mrs. Shorne, had not her ladyship been so firmly established in her phlegmatic philosophy. She said: 'Quelle enfantillage!
He had certainly seen an immense deal of life somehow or other; and without appearing at the time to profit much by observation, without perhaps being himself conscious that he did profit, there was something in the very /enfantillage/ of his loosest prattle, by which, with a glance of the one lustrous eye and a twist of the mobile lip, he could convey the impression of an original genius playing with this round world of ours tossing it up, catching it again easily as a child plays with its party- coloured ball.
Lady Jocelyn enjoyed the fun, and still more the serious way in which her relatives regarded it. 'This comes of Rose having friends, Emily, said Mrs. Shorne. There would have been a dispute to arrange between Lady Jocelyn and Mrs. Shorne, had not her ladyship been so firmly established in her phlegmatic philosophy. She said: 'Quelle enfantillage!
§ XI. And the simplicity of the means here employed may help us, both to some clear understanding of the spirit of Ninevite and Egyptian work, and to some perception of the kind of enfantillage or archaicism to which it may be possible, even in days of advanced science, legitimately to return.
'What do you want, sir? was the angry demand. 'To see my wife, madame, was the submissive reply. 'You can't see her; she is rehearsing. 'But, madame, other gentlemen 'Ah! Mais, c'est un enfantillage! Allez-vous-en. And the door was slammed in my face. 'Well, thought I, 'the right woman is in the right place there, at all events.
But to inflict this enfantillage upon the unmarried reader would be an act of wanton cruelty. So I pass over that part of Andy's biography, and, for the same reason, make no record of the next four or five interviews I had with Mr. Jaffrey.
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