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Soames was startled, but she had underrated his caution and tenacity. "If you know," he said coldly, "why do you plague me?" Fleur saw that she had overreached herself. "I don't want to plague you, darling. As you say, why want to know more? Why want to know anything of that 'small' mystery Je m'en fiche, as Profond says." "That chap!" said Soames profoundly.
Hate, or anger, or desire caused them to brighten now and then still, but ordinarily, they gave no light, and seemed tired of looking out on a world of which almost all the pleasure and all the best beauty had palled upon the worn-out wicked old man. "Monseigneur has never recovered the shock of that night, never," Monsieur Fiche whispered to Mrs.
Of such comments upon her proceeding Miss Rodney made light; in the aspect of the rooms she found a certain 'quaintness' which decidedly pleased her. 'And as for Mrs. Grundy, she added, 'je m'en fiche? which certain ladies of culture declared to be a polite expression of contempt. Miss Rodney never wasted time, and in matters of business had cultivated a notable brevity. Her interview with Mrs.
That is, she was the daughter of a baron." Peter accepted this statement with reservations, but he replied: "Put all that together and it makes you very sufficiently of Rachel's tribe." "I don't care if I'm of her tribe artistically. I'm of the family of the artists je me fiche of any other! I'm in the same style as that woman I know it."
In a form ever modifying with scientific discovery they hold that 'the good' is a superman, bodiless yet bodily, with a beginning but without an end. It is an attractive faith, enabling them to say to Nature: 'Je m'en fiche de tout cela. My big brother will look after me Pom! One may call it anthropomorphia, for it seems especially soothing to strong personalities.
"I knew that Madame was here," he said; "I followed her from her hotel. I have some advice to give Madame." "From the Marquis of Steyne?" Becky asked, resuming as much of her dignity as she could muster, and not a little agitated by hope and expectation. "No," said the valet; "it is from me. Rome is very unwholesome." "Not at this season, Monsieur Fiche not till after Easter."
The man was quite annoyed. "Je dis ce que je dis et je m'en fiche pas mal! la petite demoiselle blonde, dans la chambre de Monsieur le Comte de Tournelle." At that moment the Comtesse came in, so with another jerk of his thumb at her, "Comment! vous ne me croyez pas?" he said, "tiens la voil
'Pardon, madame, said my visitor, following and passing me; and then to the newcomer: 'What is it, Alice? 'It is Monsieur Duchatel who is arrived. 'Oh! with a disdainful gesture. 'Je m'en fiche. Let him go. 'But it is the nephew, my dear; not the uncle. 'Ah, the nephew! I come. Bon soir, madams, et bonne nuit. The two peignoirs fluttered down the stairs together.
That expression Annette had caught from him: "Je m'en fiche!" A fatalistic chap! A Continental a cosmopolitan a product of the age! If there were condemnation more complete, Soames felt that he did not know it. The swans had turned their heads, and were looking past him into some distance of their own.
Soames was startled, but she had underrated his caution and tenacity. "If you know," he said coldly, "why do you plague me?" Fleur saw that she had overreached herself. "I don't want to plague you, darling. As you say, why want to know more? Why want to know anything of that 'small' mystery Je m'en fiche, as Profond says?" "That chap!" said Soames profoundly.
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