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"To a friend to dissuade him from starting on a journey," he read. "Oh, I used to know that." He began to play, putting boisterous vigor into the tunes. In a pianissimo passage he heard one cousin whisper to the other: "Qu'il a l'air interessant." "Farouche, n'est-ce pas? Genre revolutionnaire," answered the other cousin, tittering. Then he noticed that Mme. Rod was smiling at him.
It was a pity: I was not he believed, in his soul wholly without good qualities: and would I but hear reason, and be more sedate, more sober, less "en l'air," less "coquette," less taken by show, less prone to set an undue value on outside excellence to make much of the attentions of people remarkable chiefly for so many feet of stature, "des couleurs de poupee," "un nez plus ou moins bien fait," and an enormous amount of fatuity I might yet prove an useful, perhaps an exemplary character.
Your exercises of riding, fencing, and dancing, will civilize and fashion your body and your limbs, and give you, if you will but take it, 'l'air d'un honnete homme'. I will now conclude with suggesting one reflection to you; which is, that you should be sensible of your good fortune, in having one who interests himself enough in you, to inquire into your faults, in order to inform you of them.
To him, I seemed altogether 'en l'air. On his faith, he believed I went out six days in the seven." I said, "Monsieur exaggerated. I certainly had enjoyed the advantage of a little change lately, but not before it had become necessary; and the privilege was by no means exercised in excess." "Necessary! How was it necessary? I was well enough, he supposed? Change necessary!
They were much pleased to learn that the pronoun leur is used for persons, but also for things, while où and en are used for things and sometimes for persons. Ought we to say Cette femme a l'air bon or l'air bonne? une bûche de bois sec, or de bois sèche? ne pas laisser de, or que de? une troupe de voleurs survint, or survinrent?
It was found to be distressingly meagre: what a multitude of highly interesting reflections might have been arranged under the heading: "The First Prince of Wales visiting the Pope!" But there was not a single one. "Le jeune prince plaisit a tout le monde," old Metternich reported to Guizot, "mais avait l'air embarrasse et tres triste."
"Que Monsieur l'Anglais est drole: et voyez Moustache, comme il a l'air content vraiment c'est un chien d'esprit." "Allez, Moustache," said his master, who was now all smiles, "donnez la patte a monsieur donnez donc. Ah, sare, he forgive you, I am very sure il n'a pas de malice, but he is afraid of de cigar. De burnt shild dred de vater, as your great Shakespeare say."
"Push on!" repeated Heyward; when the summons was renewed by a dozen voices, each of which seemed charged with menace. "C'est moi," cried Duncan, dragging rather than leading those he supported swiftly onward. "Bete! qui? moi!" "Ami de la France." "Tu m'as plus l'air d'un ennemi de la France; arrete ou pardieu je te ferai ami du diable. Non! feu, camarades, feu!"
But, however untenable this supposition of a fixed state in the surface of this earth, the accuracy of the natural philosopher may still be observed in the absurdity of the proposition. «L'état des montagnes sera fixe, partout où les rivières seront arrivées au point de n'emporter pas plus de limon hors de leur enceinte, que l'air et les pluies n'y déposeront de terre végétable, et voila enfin quel sera le repos, l'état permanent de la surface de notre globe.
Etre simple, c'est le comble de l'art. Ca vous donne," he added, with clasped hands and a step backward, "ca vous donne tout a fait l'air d'une dame de Nattier." Madame took the hand-glass, and did not deny that she was eblouissante. If madame, suggested Monsieur Cadron, had but a little dress a la Marie Antoinette?
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