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"She is a very remarkable person eh?" said Henfrey, again defeated. "Remarkable! Oh, yes. She is of the grande monde." "Is that still your argot?" he asked. "Oh no. Mademoiselle Yvonne is a lady. Some say she is the daughter of a rich Englishman. Others say she is just a common adventuress." "The latter is true, I suppose?" "I think not. She has le clou for the eponge d'or."
THE Present State OF WIT, &c. You acquaint me in your last, that you are still so busy building at , that your friends must not hope to see you in Town this year: at the same time, you desire me, that you may not be quite at a loss in conversation among the beau monde next winter, to send you an account of the present State of Wit in Town: which, without further preface, I shall endeavour to perform; and give you the histories and characters of all our Periodical Papers, whether monthly, weekly, or diurnal, with the same freedom I used to send you our other Town news.
He was not, however, by nature a pagan as some men are men who, in the words of De Musset, "Sont venu trop tard dans un monde trop vieux"; but the atmosphere in which his early years had been spent had been so antagonistic to the impulses of his nature, his inner life had been so cramped in and starved, that when at length the key of gold opening the prison door let in the outer air, his spirit revelled in all the wild extravagance so often accompanying sudden and long wished-for emancipation.
Not by the purity of his character, the depth of his knowledge, or any uncommon penetration and sagacity. Women alone formed and raised him. The Duchess of Burgundy took a fancy to him, and had him before he was sixteen years old; this put him in fashion among the beau monde: and the late Regent's oldest daughter, now Madame de Modene, took him next, and was near marrying him.
Ze people are for ze cheap for ze photographic, instead of ze picture- -ze gramophone, instead of ze artist fingers avec ze brain et ze literature it is ze cheap 'imitation de Zola, qui obtient les eloges du monde critique a Londres.
'Gentilhomme, seminariste russe et citoyen du monde civilise! That's better than any...." He jumped up from the sofa and suddenly, with a rapid gesture, snatched up the revolver from the window, ran with it into the next room, and closed the door behind him. Pyotr Stepanovitch stood for a moment, pondering and gazing at the door.
If his function is to bring a representative of outside sense and outside animation in contact with the inside world, he ought often to be changed. No man is a perfect representative of outside sense. "There is some one," says the true French saying, "who is more able than Talleyrand, more able than Napoleon. Cest tout le monde." That many-sided sense finds no microcosm in any single individual.
There are always artists he's beautiful and inimitable to the cher confrere; and then gros bonnets of many kinds ambassadors, cabinet ministers, bankers, generals, what do I know? even Jews. Above all always some awfully nice women and not too many; sometimes an actress, an artist, a great performer but only when they're not monsters; and in particular the right femmes du monde.
There are two sorts of good company; one, which is called the beau monde, and consists of the people who have the lead in courts, and in the gay parts of life; the other consists of those who are distinguished by some peculiar merit, or who excel in some particular and valuable art or science. For my own part, I used to think myself in company as, much above me, when I was with Mr. Addison and Mr.
Although no one disputed her intelligence a social asset in France, odd as that may appear to Americans she was generally put down as a mere femme du monde, self-indulgent, pleasure-loving, dependent what our more strident feminists call parasitic. It is doubtful if she belonged to charitable organizations, although, generous by nature, it is safe to say that she gave freely.
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