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Her eyes were stony, and as she advanced up the room she sniffed the air disgustedly, her fine nostrils quivering. Suzette's pungent perfume was no doubt still present to one coming from outside! Hauteur, contempt and disgust, expressed themselves in my little darling's blue eyes. There was nothing to be said qui s'excuse s'accuse !
She thought that perhaps the very sight of her would wound his pride, and, finding his mania discovered by a third person, he would go of his own accord: so she called on him. My lord received her with friendly composure, and all his talk was about Islip. He did not condescend to explain his presence at Carlisle. He knew that qui s'excuse s'accuse, and left her to remonstrate.
Qui s'excuse, s'accuse; and unless a matter can hold its own without the brag and self-assertion of continual demonstration, it is still more or less of a parvenu, which we shall not lose much by neglecting till it has less occasion to blow its own trumpet.
I have seen reports of what I have said at advertised meetings, that were subsequently cancelled. I have followed up rumours, and editors have expressed sorrow that they accepted them from men who had been too busy to be present. But "qui s'excuse, s'accuse"; and my conclusion is that the lecturer is practically defenceless.
And then she burst into tears and flung herself at my feet, begging for mercy. Mercy! Qui s'excuse s'accuse. What should I do? To cast her out was to murder her soul quickly and her body slowly, and I could foresee her career with prophetic eye and painful clearness. And what could the Law do for me?
He would either answer me with a lie, or refuse to answer at all, qui s'excuse s'accuse. I resolved to go on, and see what came of it. Don Simon would no doubt be able to enlighten me. I found the place without difficulty.
Qui s'excuse, s'accuse; and unless a matter can hold its own without the brag and self-assertion of continual demonstration, it is still more or less of a parvenu, which we shall not lose much by neglecting till it has less occasion to blow its own trumpet.
Qui s'excuse s'accuse; and now that this very engaging young gentleman has saved me the trouble of revealing the position in life that I am proud to occupy, there is nothing more to be said. We were interrupted, you remember, at a crisis of our conversation. I crave your permission to add, at a crisis of our lives. Far be it from me to "
"Oh, as to that, you know entirely well I do not want to go. You are unreasonable, indeed, when you talk as you do now. I only went away for your benefit." "Qui s'excuse, s'accuse." "But I am not excusing myself; and if you put it so I will go away at once." "Si vous voulez " "But I don't 'voulez' Oh, how disagreeable you can be." "You will stay?" "Pauline!" called Sophie from across the hall.
But there never was a more complete example of the remark that "qui s'excuse s'accuse." He argued that when Le Geographe cruised along the coasts discovered by Flinders, there was no published work in which they were described, therefore the French were justified in applying their own names.
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