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Updated: May 12, 2025
Outside, before each room, a tin fireplace for cooking precariously bestrided the veranda rail. Often a tumble-down hovel where three would seem a crowd yielded up more than a dozen inmates, many of whom, being at work, must be looked for later the "back-calls" that is the bete-noire of the census enumerator.
A cheery little stewardess had brought them coffee soon after daylight, and had answered a few curt questions put to her by Mademoiselle Brun. "Yes; the yacht was the yacht of the Baron de Melide, and the bete-noire, by the same token, of madame, who hated the sea."
Every morning, as I took my coffee and read the paper, I said to myself: 'That cursed Mongenod! if it were not for him I should have three thousand francs a year to live on. Mongenod became by bete-noire; I inveighed against him even as I walked the streets.
There is a progress in the domain of law and a falling back in the domain of art. And meanwhile the artists see multiplying before them their bete-noire, the bourgeois, the Philistine, the presumptuous ignoramus, the quack who plays at science, and the feather-brain who thinks himself the equal of the intelligent.
The poor woman could now be reproached with no other fault than her exaggerated tenderness for her boy, the bete-noire of his step-father. Oscar was, unfortunately, endowed by nature with a foolishness his mother did not perceive, in spite of the step-father's sarcasms.
Potter is my bête-noire, and I feel as no doubt Paul did when he wrote to Timothy: 'Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil; the Lord reward him according to his works." "Mother, what reply did you make to her? I can imagine you towering like Mrs. Siddons." "You may be sure I unmasked a battery.
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