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The inhabitants of Nismes seem very proud of its antiquities, and even the humbler classes descant with much erudition on the subject. Most, if not all of them, have studied the guide-books, and like to display the extent of their savoir on the subject.

Many a woman who has been brought into these cruel circumstances would willingly exchange all her knowledge of German and Italian, and all her graceful accomplishments, for a good physical development, and some respectable savoir faire in ordinary life.

Je vous serais bien reconnaissant de me faire savoir si elle etait avec vous ce jour-la. En attendant je vous prie de me croire Votre bien affectionne, The Journal notes: May 7th. The Club: Due d'Aumale, Lord Salisbury, Wolseley, Carlisle, A. Russell, Hewett, Stephen very brilliant. 8th. Returned to Foxholes. 16th. Drove to Heron Court. Lord Malmesbury dying. 17th.

I could not help noting the reserve and savoir faire with which my host took all this. He was so healthy, assured, interested and, I am glad to say, not exactly self-satisfied; at least he did not impress me in that way a most irritating condition. Plainly he was building a very splendid thing. His life was nearing its apex.

Here the tact and savoir vivre of Chillingly Gordon came to the rescue of the host. Possessing himself of the "Times" newspaper, he uttered an exclamation of surprise, genuine or simulated, and read aloud an extract from the leading article, announcing an impending change in the Cabinet.

Competent learning, general cultivation, absolute probity, accuracy of general view, human sympathy and technical capacity how many things are necessary to the critic, without reckoning grace, delicacy, savoir vivre, and the gift of happy phrase-making! July 26, 1878. Every morning I wake up with the same sense of vain struggle against a mountain tide which is about to overwhelm me.

There was, for instance, the young son of a German steel-king, a person of amazing savoir faire, who had made bold to write books and exhibit pictures, and had travelled so widely that he had even heard of Castleman County.

"Pourquoi fit on l'amour, si son pouvoir n'affronte, Et la vie et la mort, et la haine et la honte! Je ne demande, je ne veux pas savoir Si rien a de ton coeur terni le pur miroir: Je t'aime! tu le sais! Que l'importe tout le reste?" "Oh Victor," answered the trembling voice of Eva, "my fault is not the having too little love for you.

The men of the olden time were educated in France, and by rubbing against the cultured professors of Douai or Saint Omer, had acquired a polish, a breadth of view, a savoir faire, denied to the illiterate hordes of Maynooth. The olden priest was loyal, just as cultured Irishmen who have travelled, whether in America, England, or elsewhere, are loyal and averse to Home Rule.

Here was formed the greatest institution of the time, the only one that survived till the Revolution, that preservedin the discredit of all moral lawsthe authority of one law, la parfaite bonne compagnie, whose aim was a social oneto distinguish itself from bad company, vulgar and provincial society, by the perfection of the means of pleasing, by the delicacy of friendship, by the art of considerations, complaisances, of savoir vivre, by all possible researches and refinements of esprit.