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"Monsieur le Comte," said the Vicomte, "you are a severe critic and a lugubrious prophet; but a German is so safe from revolution that he takes alarm at the stir of movement which is the normal state of the French esprit." "French esprit may soon evaporate into Parisian betise.
On Friday I dine at Keene's, and in the evening George and Mie Mie come, and George may renew his addresses to the young lady. Lady Lucan desires that we should choose King and Queen at her house. I have myself no objection to anything but the dinner abroad, Tuesday night. No letter come. The punters are, Charles, par interet, Fish Craufurd, par complaisance, and the D. of R., par betise.
That seventy-two men should plot the assassination of a sovereign on whose life interests so numerous and so watchful depend, and imagine they could keep a secret which any drunkard amongst them would blab out, any tatterdemalion would sell, is a betise so gross that I think it highly probable.
You do not love war, you others. SUBALTERN. The Germans thought that they loved war, but I do not believe that they will love it very much longer! BOURGEOIS. No! The war will give them the stomach-ache. They will love it no longer! COIFFEUR. But these English, whom did they fight before? The Boers, was it not? SUBALTERN. Yes, but a great many English think now that it was a bêtise.
Frankly I would put it at such moments he becomes at last an optical bore or <i>betise</i>.
And when Count Victor waited some more sympathetic comment, "It was it was very stupid, very stupid of Mungo," said he. "Stupid!" echoed Count Victor ironically. "Ah! so it was. I should not have said stupid myself, but it so hard, is it not, for a foreigner to find the just word in his poor vocabulary? For a bêtise much less unpleasant I have scored a lackey's back with a scabbard.
Each new manifestation of Teutonic strategy has evoked from the English a flood of outraged comment. But from the beginning the French have wasted no time on such betise as they would call it: they have put all their energies into their business, which as every French creature knows is to fight this war through to a triumphant end and not talk.
She saw all round her things she wanted to "do" London bristled with them if you had eyes to see. She was fierce to know why people didn't take them up, put them into plays and parts, give one a chance with them; she expressed her sharp impatience of the general literary bétise.
He heard his own betise as it left his lips, and felt the immeasurable depth of it, but he had not time to retract before every personal consideration was wiped from his mind by a cry from Isabel in a very different accent "Lawrence! oh! look at the time!" She pointed to the dial of an illuminated clock, hanging high in the soft September night. It was eight minutes to twelve.
This privilege is granted to no Englishman: we may understand the French language as well as Monsieur de Levizac, but never can penetrate into Flicflac's confidence: our ways are not her ways; our manners of thinking, not hers: when we say a good thing, in the course of the night, we are wondrous lucky and pleased; Flicflac will trill you off fifty in ten minutes, and wonder at the betise of the Briton, who has never a word to say.
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