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Suddenly turning, she walked rapidly back, and overtook the crest-fallen wooer and his companion, and said in a voice from which every trace of her late anger had disappeared. "Entrez, Messieurs." M. Riel's countenance speedily lost its gloom, and, respectfully touching his hat, he said: "Oui, Mademoiselle, avec le plus grand plaisir."
He was dubbed a "hippopotamus in trousers," and for six years before he died he could not see his toes, he was so fat. Sir Arthur Sullivan relates an anecdote which shows that Rossini was conscious of his grossness. Once in Paris Sullivan introduced Chorley to Rossini, when the Italian said, "Je vois, avec plaisir, que monsieur n'a pas de ventre." Chorley indeed was noticeably slender.
She inquired much after you, and, I thought, with interest. I answered her as a 'Mezzano' should do: 'Et je pronai votre tendresse, vos soins, et vos soupirs'. When you meet with any British returning to their own country, pray send me by them any little 'brochures, factums, theses', etc., 'qui font du bruit ou du plaisir a Paris'. Adieu, child. LONDON, January 23, O. S. 1752.
Tolstoi, informed by something of the rage of the old ascetics, is too iconoclast; Maupassant's stories sometimes suggest a cynicism as profound as Chamfort's or that old French poet's who wrote: Femme, plaisir de demye heure, Et ennuy qui sans fin demeure. Ibsen is as idealistic as Strindberg is materialist.
Anything you please from a banquet at the London Tavern to a ham-sandwich and a glass of ale at fourpence." "Ah, to be sure; youth is reckless of its gastric juices. I shall find you at home when I come in to-night, I daresay. I think I may dine in the city. Au plaisir." "I don't know about the pleasure," muttered Mr. Hawkehurst.
W.H. Hadow<2> tells us that it is the duty of the musician not to flatter the sense with an empty compliment of sound, but to reach through sensation to the mental faculties within. And again we read "the art of the composer is in a sense the discovery and exposition of the INTELLIGIBLE relations in the multifarious material at his command."<3> <1> "Le Plaisir et l'Emotion Musicale," Rev.
"All right," answered his brother, taking off his watch and heavy bunch of seals. And the old gentleman crept into the bin with the utmost care. "Now I've got one," he cried. "Take two while you are about it." "Yes; but you will have to take hold of my legs and pull me out." "Avec plaisir!" answered Richard. "But won't you have a drop of Burgundy before you come out?"
"Me! horsevhip! me! the friend of Henri V.! horreur!" cried the count. "Very good, monsieur, I have presented the alternative. Where may you be found?" "Hôtel de Ville City Hotel." "Au plaisir, then Count Alfred de Roseville," said Merton, glancing at the card the Frenchman handed him. "Come, father." "Mr. Brandon, I shall wait on you at your counting room in the course of the forenoon," said Mr.
"They will not come here they cannot come here," interrupted Rubaut. "No one knows that you are here, but some three or four who will never tell." "How," thought Toussaint, "have they secured Mars Plaisir, that he shall never tell?" For the poor man's sake, however, he would not ask this aloud.
She would wait for us in the howdah, on the elephant's back, and perhaps would go to sleep. Narayan was against this parti de plaisir from the very beginning, and now, without explaining his reasons, he said she was the only sensible one among us. "You won't lose anything," he remarked, "by staying where you are. And I only wish everyone would follow your example."
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