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I can lead the horses,” he suggested as a pis aller. “I guess I’ll haf to; but goodness knows if I’ll ever get there alive.” They were far up on the hill, which spot they had reached by painfully slow and labored stages, each refraining from mention of a discomfort that might interfere with the supposed enjoyment of the other, till Fanny’s note of protest.
But I must tell you, in all fairness, that you have no chance; nothing short of a dragoon will go down." "Be assured," said I, somewhat nettled, "my pretensions do not aspire to the fair Miss Dashwood." "Tant mieux et tant pis, mon cher.
Alcippus, is't a time to think of Weddings, When the disorder'd Troops require your Presence? You must to the Camp to morrow. Alcip. You need not urge that Duty to me, Sir. King. A Day or two will finish that affair, And then we'll consummate the happy Day, When all the Court shall celebrate your Joy. Pisa, and Fal. Pis.
Are you not grateful?" "That depends on the conditions, general." "I make no conditions whatever. I let you go neither more nor less whither you will. But I must warn you that, twenty minutes after you are gone, I shall lay on my hounds. If you outrun them, well and good; if not, tant pis pour vous. I shall have kept my word. Are you not grateful, señor Fortescue?"
Who calls my Lady? Pis. Where's my Sister? Lys. Pis. I do believe it, good night, Lysette. Who's there? Pis. Where hast thou been? I wanted thee but now. I fell asleep i'th' Lobby, Sir, and had not waken'd Yet, but for the Musick which plays at the Lodgings Of my Lady Erminia. Pis. Curse on them; will they not allow him nights to himself; 'tis hard.
Henchard had frequently met this man about the streets, observed that his clothing spoke of neediness, heard that he lived in Mixen Lane a back slum of the town, the pis aller of Casterbridge domiciliation itself almost a proof that a man had reached a stage when he would not stick at trifles.
He with the Prince an equal welcome found, Was with like Garlands, though less Merit, crown'd. Fal. He's in the right for that, by Jove. Pis. Nay, now you wrong him. Alcan. What's he I should not speak my sense of him? Pis. He is our General. Alcan. What then? What is't that he can do, which I'll decline?
He had taken life by the throat, and excesses of various kinds having shattered his frame, there was an end, for the time being, of deer-stalking and tigers; it was a tame period of rat-hunts with those terriers whose murderous energies were a pis aller, yielding a sort of vicarious pleasure. Then the pony was saddled, and I rode down for the grand field day.
"Don't make sport of me, Miss Vye," he said. "It isn't true?" "Certainly not." She was thus convinced that the reddleman was a mere pis aller in Mrs. Yeobright's mind; one, moreover, who had not even been informed of his promotion to that lowly standing.
All the chairs were drawn from under you, tant pis if you were in the act of eating a pear and had not yet washed your fingers; but, no matter, you had to skip across the red carpet in order to let their Majesties pass. A rather amusing incident occurred at dinner.
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