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The young English woman who blushes at this scandalous career, or exhibits any reluctance on the subject of the companionship or the crime, is laughed at as a "novice," is charged with a want of the "savoir vivre," is quietly reproved for "the coldness of her English blood," and is recommended to abandon, as speedily as possible, ideas so unsuitable to "the glow of the warm South."
"What did you think of him?" asked Braybrooke. As he put the question he was aware that he was being far from subtle. The vision in the distance now eating plum cake, but still very observant upset his nervous system and deprived him almost entirely of his usual savoir faire.
Stone, like a brick as he is, has stood a couple of bottles of wine, and Hanley some cards. We shall have a smoke too." All this was said in a tone of braggadocio, meant to be exceedingly telling, but it only made Charlie feel that he loathed this swaggering little boy with his premature savoir vivre, more and more.
They were among the well-dressed throng now crowding back to the chairs. When Arthur had handed Dora over to the care of Lady Mazerod he lifted his hat and took his departure with that perfect savoir faire which was his forte. "To sum up all, he has the worst fault-a husband can have, he's not my choice." There is something doubtful in a love-making that is in more than two pairs of hands.
She said, or she acted as if she said, "JE NE VEUX RIEN VOIR, RIEN ECOUTER, RIEN SAVOIR." Lady Oranmore is one of the most respectable
Molly Holderness was pretty but usual. Pamela was beautiful and unusual. She had the long, slim body of a New York girl, the complexion and eyes of a Southerner, the savoir faire of a Frenchwoman. She was extraordinarily cosmopolitan, and yet extraordinarily American. She impressed every one, as she did Molly Holderness at that moment, with a sense of charm.
A man's little faults are more often the cause of his greatest miscarriages than he is able to conceive, and in whatever respects his two friends might have been his inferiors, they certainly had the advantage of him in that savoir vivre which makes so large an element of worldly success.
'Savoir, c'est mon metier; mais remarquez ceci, monsieur': It 's not always the intellectuals who succeed." "When you get a job," said Shelton, "you throw it away, I suppose." "You accuse me of restlessness? Shall I explain what I think about that? I'm restless because of ambition; I want to reconquer an independent position.
Whether a few years' experience had rendered his father more patient generally, or whether he had become alive to the charm of babyhood to which he had hitherto remained insensible it was a fact first noticed by the nurse that "Monsieur, quand la petite criait, voulait savoir ce qu'elle avait, et la prenait meme dans ses bras pour la consoler." A very important event now occurred: Mr.
They are not out in any part of polite conversation; they are acquainted with all the places, customs, courts, and families that are likely to be mentioned; they are, as Monsieur de Maupertuis justly observes, 'de tous les pays, comme les savans, sont de tous les tems'. You have, fortunately, both those advantages: the only remaining point is 'de savoir les faire valoir', for without that one may as well not have them.
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