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Updated: June 13, 2025
How on earth the authors manage to scrape up enough comic subjects, when sadness is so generally prevalent, and how they succeed in making their public laugh spontaneously and heartily, without the slightest remorse or arrière pensée, has been a very interesting question to me.
But this was not all; with age, he seemed to acquire what was almost a new fervour, an unaccustomed, unexpected, freeing of the spirit, filling him with preoccupations which he had hardly felt before. 'They say I am ambitious, he noted in his Diary, 'but do I rest in my ambition? No, assuredly he did not rest; but he worked now with no arriere pensee for the greater glory of God.
Somehow the crowd was squeezed into carriage accommodation barely sufficient for two-thirds of its number, and we left Arrière. Two French and ten British officers obtained a minimum of space in my compartment. We sorted out our legs, arms, and luggage, and tried to rest. In my case sleep was ousted by thoughts of what was ahead. Ten days' freedom in England! The stout major on my left snored.
I grant that when in his office, a man should be exact and precise, but our holidays are our garden, and too much precision here is a mistake. Surely truces, without even an arriere pensee of difference of opinion, between those who are compelled to take widely different sides during the greater part of their lives, must be of infinite service to those who can enter on them.
If there was any faith to be placed in princes or ministers, nothing could be more definite or satisfactory than the preceding document, with the exception of the phrase, "in the event of his not choosing to continue therein," which evidently contained an arrière pensée, implying, as was afterwards proved, that when I could be got rid of it would be easy to compel me to retire from the service; but even this alternative was subsequently disregarded though His Imperial Majesty, on my thanking him for having so far done me justice against the attempts of his Ministers remarked, "never mind their injustice they can't deprive you of that" alluding to the stipulations contained in the Imperial patents, and this renewed confirmation thereof.
Mais le moucre, se jetant entre nous deux, me poussa en arrière, et ce fut pour moi un vrai bonheur; car en un instant trente ou quarante autres personnes accoururent, et, si j'avois frappé, je ne sais ce que nous serions devenus.
"Arrant nonsense!" was the vigorous reply. "A great empire, from hemisphere to hemisphere, can be kept together a good deal better by democratic control. Force is always the arriere pensee of the individual and the autocrat." "These are generalities," Julian declared. "I want to know your opinion about a peace at the present moment." "Not having any, thanks.
I am not alone," I added, "Prince Sergey Ivanitch is with me." I uttered the prince's name with no arrière pensée, not prompted by any special motive or aim; I simply blurted it out without thinking, in the simplicity of my heart. Hearing the familiar name Madame Kandurin started, and bent a prolonged gaze upon me. I noticed her nose turn pale.
"I feel very uncomfortable, any way," says Tita, though without arrière pensée. Mrs. Chichester, dropping her handkerchief, gets her laugh over before she picks it up again. Tita moves towards the door, and then looks back. "Maurice," says she, with a courage born of defiance, "will you send me up some breakfast to my room?" Sir Maurice turns at once to the butler.
Alfred Yule, the worn-out veteran, whose literary ideals are those of the eighteenth century, is a most extraordinary study of an arriéré certainly one of the most crusted and individual personalities Gissing ever portrayed.
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