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Si monsieur veut bien achever cette pauvre bête blessée, ça peut s'arranger. 'Well, but have you no covert shooting no hares?
They say to us, in so many words, 'We prefer the society of your bête noire to your own. That's the way I look at it," said Mrs. Rayner, in deep excitement. It was evident that, though none were prepared to endorse so extreme a view, there was a strong feeling that the colonel had put an affront upon the Riflers by his open welcome to Mr. Hayne.
I acted simply from honourable feeling." "Oh, heavens! What a stupid thing you've done!" I cried involuntarily. "Yes, yes," he assented with positive eagerness. "You have never said anything more just, c'etait bete, mais que faire? Tout est dit. I shall marry her just the same even if it be to cover 'another's sins. So there was no object in writing, was there?" "You're at that idea again!"
But no note came, and he concluded that Lady St. Craye was not interested. This reassured while it piqued. The Hotel Bete is very near the Madeleine, and very near the heart of Paris of gay Paris, that is, yet it might have been a hundred miles from anywhere. You go along the Rue Boissy, and stopping at a gateway you turn into a dreary paved court, which is the Cite de la Retraite.
In consequence he declared that Shelley was not a classic, especially as his private circle had had an unsavoury morality, to be expressed only by the French word sale, and as moreover Shelley himself occasionally showed a distressing want of the sense of humour, which could only be called bête. These strictures, if a bit incoherent, are separately remarkably just.
So, again, of your 'love at first sight, comme on dit, that inevitable attraction which one person exerts towards another, in spite, it may be, both of reason and judgment. If this be not child of sympathy, what parentage shall we assign it? And antipathy, Monsieur, the medal's reverse, your bête noire, for instance, expound me that! Why do you so shudder at sight of this or that innocent object?
No other Post would sell to or buy from Pierrot if Le Bete the black cross was put after his name. That was his power a law of the factors that had come down through the centuries. It was a tremendous power for evil. It had brought him Marie, the slim, dark-eyed Cree girl, who hated him and who in spite of her hatred "kept house for him."
He prefers green fields, the perfume of flowers, health, virtue, to Zola's liking for crime, sickness, cadaverous putridness, and manure. He prefers l'âme humaine to la bête humaine.
Diderot, in his desire to explain the mutations almost atmospheric in the behavior of women, has even gone so far as to make them the offspring of what he calls la bete feroce; but we never see these whims in a woman who is happy. These symptoms, light as gossamer, resemble the clouds which scarcely break the azure surface of the sky and which they call flowers of the storm.
In course of time the desire to escape became an instinct, to be followed as a matter of course; in the same way he avoided the adders on the mountain. His old ideals were almost if not quite forgotten; he knew that the female of the bête humaine, like the adder, would in all probability sting, and he therefore shrank from its trail, but without any feeling of special resentment.
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