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The female world seems to be almost incorrigibly gone astray in this particular; for which reason, I shall recommend the following extract out of a friend's letter to the profess'd beauties, who are a people almost as insufferable as the profess'd wits. 'Monsier St.
De. It will become your wisdome and your safety. Cou. What mischiefe have done to your face? De. My face? Cou. You looke so scurvily; come hither, thou New Monster, with more feet then a Caterpiller; What tyme a day ist? you that move upon So many wheeles, say, Monsier, are you not A walkeing Clock? I have a mighty mind To see you tooke a peeces. De. I doe not like this.
But he started and looked down. "You here yet Carrothead? Ah, I forgot. Do you speak French?" "Oui, Monsier." "Taisez-vous!" he said sharply, with singular purity of accent. I complied. The wind moaned fearfully in the chimney, and the light burned dimly. I shuddered in spite of myself. "Ah, you tremble, girl!" "It is a fearful night." "Fearful! Call you this fearful? Ha! ha! ha!
And even to-day, dear Madame, while I reject that opinion as being without foundation, I must confess that Monsier de Lessay bore a very strong resemblance to Monsieur Denon's mummy. The fact is enough to explain why this person inspired me with fantastic terror. "In reality, Monsieur de Lessay was a small gentleman and a great philosopher.
The next moment his coat and waistcoat were lying on the ground; his shirt, torn in the rough handling, was hanging round his loins, and he stood before us naked to the waist, lean, brown, muscular a torso of an athlete done in bronze. We pressed round eagerly. Monsieur le Chef put up his double eye-glass; Monsier le Préfet took off his blue spectacles.
Enter Device. De. Most honor'd Captaine. Un. My compleat Monsier Device, this is a grace to us. You come to visit your Mistres my Cosen. Shall I never get opportunitie with that shee waiter! If I gett her with Child my man Thomas shall marry her. Enter Thomas. Tho. Sir, the Captaine is new alighted. Un. Gett a bottle of sack up to my Chamber presently. La. You are a gentleman of your word. Sis.
Homais suffered as he listened to this discourse, and he concealed his discomfort beneath a courtier's smile; for he needed to humour Monsier Canivet, whose prescriptions sometimes came as far as Yonville. So he did not take up the defence of Bovary; he did not even make a single remark, and, renouncing his principles, he sacrificed his dignity to the more serious interests of his business.
"You invited him to play at your flat on Friday night, Monsieur." Monsieur Foa gave a sudden enchanting smile: "Yes, Madame. I hear much good of him from my friend Dauphin, much good. And we long to hear him play. It appears he is a great artist." "He has had an accident," said Audrey. Monsier Foa's face grew serious. "It is nothing a few days. The elbow a trifle. He cannot play next Friday.
I accordingly approached the place where the nasal sounds seemed to issue from, and soon reached the post of a bed. I waited for an instant, and then began, "Monsier, voulez vous bien me permettre "
I immediately ordered a bottle of Burgundy, and filling the large goblet before him, said, with much respect, "A votre bonne voyage, Monsier le Courier." To this he at once replied, by taking off his cap and bowing politely as he drank off the wine. "Have we any runaway felon or a stray galerien among us?" said I, laughingly, "that they are going to search us?"
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