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Cabal against Him. His Disgrace and Its Consequences. Danger of Chamillart. Witticism of D'Harcourt. Faults of Chamillart. Court Intrigues against Him. Behaviour of the Courtiers. Influence of Madame de Maintenon. Dignified Fall of Chamillart. He is Succeeded by Voysin. First Experience of the New Minister. The Campaign in Flanders. Battle of Malplaquet. Disgrace of the Duc d'Orleans.
With whom has the wit to deal? First of all, with his interlocutors themselves, when his witticism is a direct retort to one of them. Often with an absent person whom he supposes to have spoken and to whom he is replying.
I suppose she happened unawares to look at her husband." It is possible that Miss Austen's sense of the comic ran away with her at times as Emma Woodhouse's did. I do not know of any similar instance of cruelty in conversation on the part of a likeable person so unpardonable as Emma Woodhouse's witticism at the expense of Miss Bates at the Box Hill picnic.
Now his face was crimson with rage and running; he gesticulated wildly; vague words bubbled forth, as his short legs twinkled down the slope. The crowd paused to admire. Some one shouted a witticism, and the crowd laughed. For the moment the situation was saved. The fat secretary hurried on down the slope, unheeding of any insult but the one.
It must be allowed that amid such free conversation it was difficult for Joe to shine as an orator. But as he had no such ambition, perhaps the interruptions only served him. But Miss Thoroughbung's witticism did throw a certain damp over the wedding-breakfast. It was perhaps to have been expected that the lady should take her revenge for the injury done to her.
One person had seen it. This little ruse of the queen had not escaped John Heywood, who had immediately, by some cutting witticism, set the king to laughing, and tried to draw the attention of the courtiers from the queen and her lover.
"What a pretty vein of satire you have, mon cher!" said the Vicomte, good-humouredly; "there is a sting of truth in your witticism. Indeed, I must send you some articles of mine in which I have said much the same thing, les beaux, esprits se rencontrent.
Nearly opposite to me sat the red-haired merchant Wadel, with his long, dryly comical face, firing off one witticism after another, and at my side whispered the hump-backed clerk Gram, who was famed for his cleverness, and feared for his biting tongue.
When the salt-cellar, and the fowl’s breast, and the trifle, and the lobster salad were all exhausted, and could not afford standing-room for another solitary witticism, the keeper performed that very dangerous feat which is still done with some of the caravan lions, although in one instance it terminated fatally, of putting his head in the animal’s mouth, and placing himself entirely at its mercy.
Do you realize it all, Clara? You, the well-known leader of a large social circle you, the proud beauty and envied lady of rank and fashion, you will be made a subject for the coarse jests of lawyers, the very judge on the bench will probably play off his stale witticism at your expense, your dearest friends will tear your name to shreds, the newspapers will reek of your doings, and honest housemaids reading of your fall from your high estate, will thank God that their souls and bodies are more chaste than yours!
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