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Updated: June 21, 2025
If I can not have emotions, I must have the world. You would offer me neither one nor the other. You are blase in every thing, even in ambition. You had a career before you, and you would not take it. You give it up! for what? for a betise, for an absurd scruple. Why would you not have that seat, and be such a puritain? Why should you refuse what is mine by right, entendez-vous?"
How I wish I could hear you and see you, dear. I'm very lonely, and so are Bêtise and Tawney-eye. We do nothing but wander round the house all day, waiting for your letter, and the papers." Three thousand people in the Brooklyn Rink were kept waiting for nearly ten minutes by Peter's perusal of that letter. But when he had finished it, and had reached the Rink, he out-Stirlinged Stirling.
Why should it be? said Ursula. 'Il faut avoir le respect de ses btises, said Birkin. 'But you needn't have the respect for the BETISE before you've committed it, laughed Ursula. 'Ah then, des betises du papa? 'Et de la maman, added Gudrun satirically. 'Et des voisins, said Ursula. They all laughed, and rose. It was getting dark. They carried the things to the car.
"I never can understand," said Antony, presently, "why your grandmother did not let me know when first you came to the cottage. She was fully aware of the relationship between us, even if I was not." "Grandmamma was a very proud woman. We were so very poor. And then, there was grandpapa's bêtise, which, I fancy, had quite separated them from his family."
But that is neither here nor there. He will commit in one meal every betise that a senllion fresh from the plow-tail is capable of, and he will continue to repeat those faults. He is as complete a heavy-footed, uncomprehending, bungle-fisted fool as any mem-sahib in the East ever took into her establishment.
But she did say that in life, now and then, there came a coup de foudre, which sometimes was its glory and sometimes not; that this was nature, and there was no use going absolutely contrary to nature; but that a disciplined person was less likely to commit a bêtise, or to mistake a passing light for the coup de foudre, than one who was accustomed to give way to every emotion, as a trained soldier is better able to stand fire than the raw recruit from the fields."
"I have never loved war, as you know, but I have been driven to it." "With the stick." The King was not angry, but he was troubled that a remarkable man, who had been his friend and teacher, should commit such a betise. "You are right; it was my father's stick, and I bless it. But although I do not believe that the Golden Age is before the door, yet I do see a brighter future in the distance."
If it was not that he has the same nose and chin as grandmamma, one would say she had bought him somewhere, and that he could not be her own son. Hephzibah says he is good-natured, so perhaps that is why he made a bêtise in South America. One ought never to be called good-natured, grandmamma says as well write one's self down a noodle at once.
Then Leonore turned to the mastiff and told him some things. Of how bad the strikers were, and how terrible were the Anarchists. "Yes, dear," she said, "I wish we had them here, and then you could treat them as they deserve, wouldn't you, Bêtise? I'm so glad he has my luck-piece!"
"And the boy?" "Oh, he was a naughty boy and went the other way where there is a tree, and on the tree is written, 'Don't go this way or you'll be dead, and he said, 'That is one betise, and did go in the way and got to the Holle, and there he gets whippings when he doesn't make what the diable says."
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