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"Now, we want a motto," said Gordon; "something that will express, in few words, the objects of the society." "I don't happen to know what the objects of the society are," replied Haven; "but I suggest, 'Honi soit qui mal y pense." "The Queen of England has a mortgage on that motto," said Paul. "Semper paratus will be better." "What does it mean?" asked a student. "Some praties," replied a wag.
Had not proclamation been made from his throne, Soit fait comme il est desire? "For his private virtues they are beside the question. Remember you not," and Mr Milton smiled, but somewhat sternly, "what Dr Cauis saith in the Merry Wives of Shakspeare? 'What shall the honest man do in my closet?
He was asking himself whether his agitation and his despair had produced the very slightest effect upon her; and he came to the conclusion they had not. "Peste soit de cette femme!" he said to himself. "She is the first I ever came across who refused to believe in vows of eternal love.
He writes, obviously in answer to remonstrances: 'Nous nous prometons de suivre en tout les volontes et les arrangemens de notre fidele amie et alliee, L. P. D. T.; nous retirer aux heures qu'il lui conviendra a la ditte P, soit de jour, soit de nuit, soit de ses etats, en foy de quoi nous signons. He had begun to bore the capricious lady. Important intrigues were in the air.
Here, upon my Weinberg, I will not be a king, but a friend and a philosopher." "And a poet," said D'Argens, in loving tones. "I will now recall a couplet to the poet-king, which he once repeated to me, when I was melancholy-almost hopeless: "'Nous avons deux moments a vivre; Qu'il en soit un pour le plaisir."
A few of the people staying in the hotel were lounging about, but these paid no particular heed to Gervase or his companion. At about two hundred yards from the entrance of the Mena House, the Nubian stopped and waited till Gervase came up with him. "Madame la Princesse vous aime, Monsieur Gervase!" he said, with a sarcastic grin. "Mais, elle veut que l'Amour soit toujours aveugle! oui, toujours!
At the inn there were vacant rooms, and that hasty welcome accorded to the traveller at wayside houses where none stay longer than they can help. 'No, said the landlord, in answer to the General's query. 'We are not busy, though we expect a lady who will pass the hour of the siesta here and then proceed northward. 'Il est rare que la tete des rois soit faite a la mesure de leur couronne.
Some writers complain that some of these dance-songs are coarse and more or less indecent; others aver that they never degenerate into coarseness. Quien sabe? Perhaps it is a case of Honi soit qui mal y pense.
I thought it might be her farcically pompous way of announcing my father's return, and looked pleased, I suppose, for she added, 'Do you know Prince Hermann? He spends most of his time in Eberhardstadt. He is cousin of the King, a wealthy branch; tant soit peu philosophe, a ce qu'on dit; a traveller. They say he has a South American complexion.
I hear that the new Duke of Orleans 'a remercie Monsieur de Melfort, and I believe, 'pas sans raison', having had obligations to him; 'mais il ne l'a pas remercie en mari poli', but rather roughly. Il faut que ce soit un bourru'. I am told, too, that people get bits of his father's rags, by way of relies; I wish them joy, they will do them a great deal of good.
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