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"I will put you down for that, if you desire it." "Thank you." It so happened that when Harry and Maud took the floor, they found Fletcher their vis-a-vis. Perhaps it was this that made Harry more emulous to get through without making any blunders. At any rate, he succeeded, and no one in the set suspected that it was his first appearance in public as a dancer. Fletcher was puzzled.
"That I was duly escorted, or that my father is 'without on the mat'? ... However, you do not appear glad one way or the other. And now I must explain our business. Roscoe, will you go and encourage my father to hope that you will be vis-a-vis to his excellency?" She lightly beat the air with her whip, while I took a good look at the charming scene.
Talent has brought you into such a circle, you belong to it, but ... you are drawn away from it, and you vacillate between cultured people and the lodgers vis-a-vis. Cultured people must, in my opinion, satisfy the following conditions: 1. They respect human personality, and therefore they are always kind, gentle, polite, and ready to give in to others.
Dropping in rather late at a card-party, I beheld them sitting vis-a-vis at one of the tables, playing together against an old lady and gentleman, before whom Mrs. L thought, perhaps, it was not necessary to appear very fashionable towards dear Harry.
And, what is odd enough, their answers are sometimes as pat as if they knew your meaning. Indeed I have often thought it strange that your low poor people should be so acute, and have so much common sense. But do you direct your letters thus A Monsieur Monsieur le Chevalier de St. Ives, Baronet Anglois, an Cafe Conti, vis-a-vis le Pont Neuf, Quai Conti, a Paris. And so, Abimelech, I remain
Vis-a-vis with her, and consequently with myself, was Adonaïs, a celebrated author, and person of the beau monde. On his left, Dalton, always mysteriously elegant and dangerously witty. Denslow and Jeffrey Lethal, the critic, completed our circle. The conversation was easy, animated, personal.
"My name is Kingston Brooks, and these are my rooms." "So I understood," the new-comer replied imperturbably. "I called about an hour ago, and took the liberty of awaiting your return." Brooks sat down. His vis-a-vis was calmly selecting a cigarette from a capacious case. Brooks found himself offering a light and accepting a cigarette himself, the flavour of which he at once appreciated.
This strange Englishman I had met first in Prussia, where we had happened to sit vis-a-vis in a railway train in which I was travelling to overtake our party; while, later, I had run across him in France, and again in Switzerland twice within the space of two weeks! To think, therefore, that I should suddenly encounter him again here, in Roulettenberg!
And one or the other was the probable issue nay, more than probable: for, as I bent my eyes on the resolute countenance of my vis-a-vis, I felt certain that there was no chance of escaping from the terrible alternative.
At this instant there came a doubt of the theological position of my ghostly vis-a-vis, and I abruptly thought the question, "Who are you?" "Nobody," replied the dæmon, oracularly. This I knew in one sense to be true; and I replied, "But you know what I mean. Don't trifle. Of what nature is your personality?" "Do you think," it replied, "that personality is necessary to existence? We are spirit."
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