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Brixham, "I know it to my cost. I borrowed from him a little money five years ago; and though I have paid him many times over, I am entirely in his power. I am ruined by him, sir. Everything I had is his. He's a dreadful man." "Eh, Mrs. Brixham? tout pis dev'lish sorry for you, and that I must quit your house after lodging here so long: there's no help for it. I must go."
To weigh one passion against the other, with the discordant voices of honour and expediency dinning in his ears, had too long involved him in fruitless torture. Both were right; neither could be surrendered. If the facts showed them irreconcilable, tant pis pour les faits. A way must be found to satisfy both or neither. I should have been a spiritless dog if I had not risen to his mood.
Alcip. So now, my Heart, I have redeem'd thee nobly, Sit down and pause a while But why so still and tame, is one poor Murder Enough to satisfy thy storm of Passion? If it were just, it ought not here to end; If not I've done too much My Lord, Pisaro Alcip. Pisaro, Oh, that Name has wakened me, A Name till now had never Terror in't! I will not speak with him. Enter Pisaro. Pis.
We are too apt to be afraid of the men, and take to the children as our pis- aller, covering our despair of dealing with the majority, the adult population, in a pompous display of machinery for influencing that very small fraction, the children. "Oh, but the destinies of the empire depend on the rising generation!"
Like those who meet a Devil in the night, And all afrighted gaze upon the Fury, But dare not turn their backs to what they fear, Though safety lie behind them. Alas! I would as willingly as those Fly from this Devil, Love. Pis. You may, like those afrighted, by degrees Allay your sense of terror in the Object, And then its Power will lesson with your Fear, And 'twill be easy to forgo the Fantasm.
If so, tant pis pour vous. Pardon me, I mean that your salary suffers in proportion as the Sens Commun declines in sale." "She has not accepted them. I advised her not to do so until she could compare them with those offered by the proprietor of the Sens Commun." "And your advice guides her?
He would, however, still make the last effort for the whole stake. It would be time enough to give in, and make the best of a pis aller , when he was forced to do so. If beaten, he would make use of Martin Kelly; but he would first try if he couldn't prove him to be a swindling adventurer, and his sister to be an idiot.
Au pis aller, if the burden of life becomes utterly intolerable I can shuffle it off as quickly as did that proud Roman, who, 'when the birds began to sing' in the dawn of a day heralded by tempestuous winds laden with perfume from the vales of Sicily, shut his eyes forever from the warm sparkling Mediterranean billows that broke in the roads of Utica, and pricked the memory of inattentive Azrael with the point of a sword.
"In both ways." "Empis? " "And tant pis!" March 16, 1847. At the Academy to-day, while listening to the poems, bad to the point of grotesqueness, that have been sent for the competition of 1847, M. de Barante remarked: "Really, in these times, we no longer know how to make mediocre verses."
"Well, my dear, the air of Kent, and more manly treatment, may yet develop his somewhat stinted growth, and under your tuition, he may yet prove not so bad an object as you seem to think, at all events, he may serve as a pis aller, until a better turns up; but you must proceed with caution, for he seems as modest as a maid."
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