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Mais helas! il'n'est point d'eternelles amours." It is a great advantage for any man, to be able to talk or to hear, neither ignorantly nor absurdly, upon any subject; for I have known people, who have not said one word, hear ignorantly and absurdly; it has appeared in their inattentive and unmeaning faces.
She nodded mutely in assent, then with a hopeless little sigh she added: "Hélas it is not easy when one has nothing one must work hard and wait Ah, mon Dieu!" "Sit down, my little one," I said. "I have something serious to think over." She did as I bade her, seating herself in silence before the fire.
"Our people," he said, "are like your own Scotch peasants kind-hearted, picturesque, free, musical, poetic, but wanting, hélas, in polish to strangers." He was certainly an exception, if he described them aright; for he made us feel at home from the moment we entered. He named his price in frank terms.
In Paris, in Rome, in Vienna, in Buda-Pesth always a conqueror of ignorant women who saw him in his beautiful 'make-up'! Yes, he was perfectly delightful, this big Miraudin, till he became his own manager and his own leading actor as well! Helas! What it is to be a manager! Do you know?
"We will talk no more of it, ma fille. You do not love the holy Marie as you ought, I fear". "Love her! indeed I do. She is the most blest and honored among women, the mother of the Saviour. But why should we pray to her, when Jesus is the only intercessor for our sins with the Father? Why, ma chère mère?" "Helas! ma fille.
"I waited here, good mother, to learn more of the poor wounded man. Sister Felecitie tells me that he is a suicide. I hope that is a mistake," said Salome. "It is too true, helas! But, my daughter," said the abbess, turning to the young nun, "leave us alone for a few minutes."
I nodded my head in acquiescence, hardly feeling inclined for the recital of some revolutionary anecdote, which I thought was going to be related to me. Monsieur Parole, however, astonished me with quite a different narration. "Leesten," said he. "When I did leeves my Paris beloved, helas! I was tored from my lofe my fiancee dat I adore! I leaves her in hopes and au desespoir.
"Madame the Countess is served.... These grapes grew when I was young, Monsieur and the world was young, too, mon Capitaine hélas! but the Woods of Aulnes were old, old as the headland yonder. Only the sea is older, beau jeune homme only the sea is older the sea which always was and will be." "Madame," he said, turning toward the young girl beside him, " to France!
"Deja la ney encrumis la naturo, Tout es tranquille et tout cargo lou dol; Dins lou clouche la brezago murmuro, Et lou tuquet succedo al rossignol: Del mal, helas! bebi jusq'a la ligo, Moun co gemis sans espouer de gari; Plus de bounhur, ey perdut moun amigo, Me cal mouri! me cal mouri!"
"'Quand la rime enfin se trouve au bout des vers, Qu'importe que le reste y soit mis des travers." "Helas" said the Viscount D'A t, an author of no small celebrity himself; "I agree with you we shall never again see a Voltaire or a Rousseau." "There is but little justice in those complaints, often as they are made," replied Vincent.
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