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"My uncle knows something about that fellow Clavering knows something about him. There's something louche regarding him. But come! I must go to Bury-street, like a dutiful nephew." And, taking his hat, Pen prepared to go. "I will walk, too," said Warrington. And they descended the stairs, stopping, however, at Pen's chambers, which, as the reader has been informed, were now on the lower story.
"Mayn't they see my motive as the determination to serve the Prince, in any case, and at any price, first; to 'place' him comfortably; in other words to find him his fill of money? Mayn't it have all the air for them of a really equivocal, sinister bargain between us something quite unholy and louche?" It produced in the poor Colonel, infallibly, the echo. "'Louche, love ?"
His appearance on Saturdays was always military, by reason of the route march of his Volunteer Corps in the afternoon. Gentleman Fox, who belonged to the corps too, was also looking square; but that commercial traveller on his other side seemed more louche, and as if surprised in immorality, than ever; only the proximity of Gentleman Fox on the other side kept Mr. Bosengate from shrinking.
Let Magsie employ the arts of a schoolgirl if she would, but at least let the great Doctor Gregory perceive their absurdity! "Young Mr. Richie Gardiner seemed louche" she observed after a silence which Warren seemed willing indefinitely to prolong. "H'm!" Warren gave a short, contented laugh. "He's crazy about her, but of course to her he's only a kid," he volunteered.
"To me there is something" he hesitated, seeking for an English word which should exactly express the French word "louche" "sinister that is the word I am looking for there is to me something sinister about the Wachners." "Sinister?" echoed Sylvia, really surprised. "Why, they seem to me to be the most good-natured, commonplace people in the world, and then they're so fond of one another!"
"Je voulais convertir you'll laugh of course cette pauvre auntie, elle entendra de belles choses! Oh, my dear boy, would you believe it. I felt like a patriot. I always recognised that I was a Russian, however.. . a genuine Russian must be like you and me. Il y aid, dedans quelque chose d'aveugle et de louche." "Not a doubt of it," I assented.
"My uncle knows something about that fellow Clavering knows something about him. There's something louche regarding him. But come! I must go to Bury Street, like a dutiful nephew." And, taking his hat, Pen prepared to go. "I will walk, too," said Warrington. And they descended the stairs, stopping, however, at Pen's chambers, which, as the reader has been informed, were now on the lower story.
Of course her cousins and their friends hated her: she had won their bonne louche, and the crimson of her plainness and poverty, of the having to "have Percy always around to please Uncle Rufus," was pink to the enormity of her being Ross Norval's wife. And "why he married her," and "of course he's dead tired of her by this time," were their politest surmises.
Maitland had, with the best intentions, done a good deal more than most of these innocents to deserve incarceration. His conduct, as the Juge d'Instruction told him, without mincing matters, was undeniably louche.
I left her with the understanding that she would consider the matter with her aunt and that I might come back the next day for their decision. "The aunt will refuse; she will think the whole proceeding very louche!" Mrs. Prest declared shortly after this, when I had resumed my place in her gondola.
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