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While this cross fire went on from both sides, I looked from one to the other of the speakers. My first impression being, that having perceived and disliked my attention to Lady Jane, they adopted this "mauvaise plaisanterie" as a kind of smart lesson for my future guidance.
"Ah, not many times; soon all goes to finish, and I have none person to make this charming English go in my so stupide head." "What will you do then?" "I jeter myself into the lake." "Don't be foolish; I'm dull to-day, and want to be cheered up; suicide isn't a pleasant subject." "Good! See here, then a little plaisanterie what you call joke.
Nor was the above the only instance of her skill, every day presented some fresh instance of her feeling and of taste. A plaisanterie, which proved very successful, was arranged as follows: We were sitting one evening up stairs, when we were attracted by the performance of three musicians, who were singing in the cour.
We find it in Byronian Lermontov, who sees nothing in life but "une plaisanterie;" in Dostoyevsky, who has written so many striking pages of realism on the bitterness of a life without religious faith; and in the realist Turgenev, we find the same kind of thing.
The progress of the movement between 1833 and 1845 was almost entirely in the direction of teaching the clergy to 'magnify their office. The other part of the scheme, the combat against theological liberalism, fell quite into the background. The main reason for this was that during those strange years the theologians so completely dominated Oxford that liberalism could hardly raise its head, and was despised as well as hated. Only after Newman's secession could the regeneration of the University begin. Then indeed liberalism came in like a flood, though it was a very shallow flood in some cases. This was the day of the self-satisfied young rationalist, 'ecarté par une plaisanterie des croyances dont la raison d'un Pascal ne réussit pas
"We forgive you this unfortunate plaisanterie, since its execrable taste carries with it its own worst punishment. But be careful, sir, how you offend again!" With a last glance of warning, which, however, had lost its severity, the King turned away, followed by the Due de Broglie, and, seeking the Queen, their Majesties retired very shortly.
And she say she's sin'. And yet same time while she h-ask' mademoiselle to pray the good God and the mother of God to forgive that sin, she h-ask her to pray also that they'll make De l'Isle to love her. "Biccause, she say, 'tis those unfortunate rosebud' of sentimental plaisanterie he give her what firz' make her to love him.
That old 'ouse we're inhabiting here, tha'z like us, ha, ha! a pritty antique. Tha'z mo' suit' for a relique than to live in, especially for Tantine ha, ha! tha'z auntie, yet tha'z what we call our niece. Aline juz' in plaisanterie! biccause she take' so much mo' care of us than us of her." Mrs. Chester had stopped to look around her.
He smiled at everything and seemed to regard the New World as a colossal plaisanterie. It is true that a perpetual smile was the most natural expression of countenance for a man about to marry Euphemia Cleve.
"I could not have believed that Sir John Lade would have been guilty of such a trick as pulling that leader across. I do not permit a mauvaise plaisanterie of that sort. He shall hear from me to-night." "It was the lady," said I. My uncle's brow cleared, and he began to laugh. "It was little Letty, was it?" said he. "I might have known it.
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