advisatory

Updated: June 6, 2025

Jacques would sometimes take a laughing but advisatory tone with Regnard. "Do not, my dear fellow," he would say, "be eaten up with ambition to shine before kings. I remember once, in my childhood, the Duc d'Orleans, the king's brother, came to Brabant, and was to dine at Castle Haret. All sorts of things were to be done. In the lake there was to be an island, from which concealed music played.

Molly Elliot Seawell - Francezka