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"Oh but I don't know that I want to be, at your age, too different from you!" "Ah prepare while you're about it," said Strether, "to be more amusing." Little Bilham continued to think, but at last had a smile. "Well, you ARE amusing to ME." "Impayable, as you say, no doubt. But what am I to myself?"
Here again, the Swiss, out of the abundance of his zeal, expressed his admiration, by saying these pieces were impayable; when the painter, turning to him, with an air of exultation, "Pardon me, friend, there you happen to be mistaken: these are none of Impayable's; but done by Nicholas Pouseen. I have seen prints of them in England, so that none of your tricks upon travellers, Mr.
"Ah, Dmitri, how d'you do?" he said, turning his freshly-shaved cheek to Nekhludoff to be kissed. "When did you get here?" And he silently kissed his wife on the forehead. "Non il est impayable," the Countess said, turning to her husband. "He wants me to go and wash clothes and live on potatoes. He is an awful fool, but all the same do what he is going to ask of you.
She was talking merrily, and her hearers, in one of whom, as I glanced over my shoulder, I recognized an ex-Cabinet Minister, seemed to be greatly entertained. As her back was toward me, all I could see of the lady herself was her short black hair falling over the handsome fur collar of her mantle. "He was so tragic about it," she was saying, "that it was really impayable.
"Hush!" said Ruth softly. "I had no such thought." "And if you had, you would not have cared," said Diana, eyeing her again long and steadily. "Mamma you really must forgive mamma. If you knew them, there was never a Pett that was not impayable. Mamma spoke of asking your price. . . . As if, for any price, he would give you up!" "I have no price to ask, of him or of any one."
The idea of the only simpleton in the lot having to lecture the others on propriety of deportment! I thought they were going to tear each other's eyes out! Ha! Ha! Ha! It's impayable! Give me that cord, Michael! Hand me the heavy ruler, Ardan! It's the only way to bring him to reason! Ho! Ho! Ho! It's too good!
Early in 1763, one finds an appreciative knowledge of Shandy as a possession of a group of Swiss literati, but probably confined to a coterie of intellectual aristocrats and novelty-seekers. Julie von Bondeli writes to Usteri from Koenitz on March 10, 1763, that Kirchberger will be able to get him the opportunity to read Tristram Shandy as a whole, that she herself has read two volumes with surprise, emotion and almost constant bursts of laughter; she goes on to say: “Il voudrait la peine d’apprendre l’anglais ne fut-ce que pour lire cet impayable livre, dont la vérité et le génie se fait sentir
"What, sir?" said Mr. Polonius. "Hwat!" shrieked the old lady. "Mr. Hwat? Mais, ma chere, c'est impayable. Come along here's the carr'age! Give me your arm, Mr. Hwat, and get inside, and tell me all about your thirteen aunts." She seized on my elbow and hobbled through the shop as fast as possible; the young ladies following her, laughing.
"Possibly," I rejoined. "Yet I mean to have the selection, let me assure you, in return, of the controller of my liberties nay, have already selected him, for aught you know!" My cool audacity seemed for a moment to paralyze even his own. He paused and surveyed me, as if in doubt of his own senses. "Impayable!"
And the stout, florid Colonel, who had been trying to look young and rakish ever since he had turned and caught sight of Viola, suggested that "Perhaps, if he had saved your British, he would not have said that it was nothing." And the lean, iron-grey Colonel with the ferocious moustache remarked in an austere, guttural voice, "Il est impayable lui!"
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