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He speaks in a soft, quiet manner, with something of a drawl, using very correct, well-chosen language, and pronouncing all his words with carefulness; has everything in his dress and traveling appointments comme il faut; and seems to think there is abundant time for everything that is to be done in this world, without, as he says, 'any unnecessary excitement. Before the party had fully discovered his name he was usually designated as 'the obliging gentleman, or 'that gentleman who is so accommodating. Yet our friend, withal, is of Irish extraction, and I have seen him roused to talk with both hands and a dozen words in a breath.
He considered himself not only un homme très comme il faut, but a man of chivalric honesty. By honesty he understood the refusal to take bribes from private people. But to do everything in his power to obtain all sorts of traveling expenses, rents and disbursements he did not consider dishonest. Nor did he consider it dishonest to rob his wife and sister-in-law of their fortunes.
Il faut hurler avec les loups especially if you are so wrought up by their hurlements that you can't hear yourself think. I'm just giving myself up to the rareness, the richness of the impression."
If the use of those waters does me no good, the shifting the scene for some time will at least amuse me a little; and at my age, and with my infirmities, 'il faut faire de tout bois feche'. Some variety is as necessary for the mind as some medicines are for the body.
You might as well live in a penitentiary! 'De bouchons faisons un tas, Et s'il faut avoir la goutte, Au moins que ce ne soit pas Pour n'avoir bu qu'une goutte!" "Nay, I implore you!" I interposed again. "The landlord ..." "Hang the landlord! 'Grisons-nous " "Well, but but there is a lady in the next room ..." Müller laughed till the tears ran down his cheeks.
If he is with you, remember me kindly to him, and excuse me to him once more for my involuntary negligence. The Hartels are quite comme il faut in their personal and business relations. Dr. Hartel came to Weymar to hear "Lohengrin", and I am delighted to hear that his impression has been confirmed by an imprimatur.
It spoke well for the size of their craws certainly, that, during the two minutes Ben was away, they had each devoured a "print" of butter, about half a pound! "Saw ye ever the like o' thae birds, Miss Kathleen?" began Ben, proudly. "My butter, my butter!" cried Kate. Ben ran to the rescue, and having removed everything to the high shelf, he came back, saying, "It was na their faut.
'Marie-Louise n'est pas la femme de Napoleon; c'est la France que Napoleon a epousee; c'est la France qu'il aime, leur union enfante la perte de l'Europe; voila la divorce que je veux; voila l'union qu'il faut briser. "La voix des timides et des traitres protesta contre cette sentence. 'C'est abuser de droit de la victoire! C'est fouler aux pieds le vaincu!
It was no great matter, her father said to himself, after all; very likely it would amuse her; the Widow was a lively woman enough, perhaps a little comme il ne faut pas socially, compared with the Thorntons and some other families; but what did he care for these petty village distinctions? Elsie spoke. "I mean to go. You must go with me, Dudley. You may do as you like, Dick."
I cannot understand just how I came to know of the books, but I suppose it was through the contemporary criticism which I was then beginning to read, wherever I could find it, in the magazines and newspapers; and I could not say why I thought it would be very 'comme il faut' to like them.
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