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Updated: June 14, 2025
Braith says she isn't too good for you when you are at your best; but we know better, Reggy; any good girl is too good for the likes of us. Hasten to my arms, Reginald! You will find them at No. 640 Rue Notre Dame des Champs, chez, Foxhall Clifford, Esq. Leaving Clifford's letter and the newspapers on the table, Rex took his hat, put out the light, and went down to the street.
We're to have crowds of fireflies, because there'll be no motor dust; and the saying among the peasants is that the mouches brillantes search always with their lanterns, for a lost brother. And birds will 'se coucher dans les roses chez nous. Isn't that a darling expression? Think of having birds go to bed in your roses!
Chez lui our friend of the flowing garments is a king, with slaves to wait upon him, wives to obey him, and servants to fear his wrath. But his everyday reception-room is the lobby of his stables, where he sits behind the door in rather shabby garments attending to business matters, unless he is a merchant or shopkeeper, when his store serves as office instead.
I arrived at Thornton's chambers in the Rue St. Dominique. "Monsieur, est-il chez lui?" said I to the ancient porteress, who was reading one of Crebillon's novels. "Oui, Monsieur, au quatrieme," was the answer. I turned to the dark and unclean staircase, and, after incredible exertion and fatigue, arrived, at last, at the elevated abode of Mr. Thornton.
"C'est si consolant chez les Protestants, l'enterrement des morts," people were heard to say, and let us hope that the cure and the mayor were punished for their folly by a few conversions among their flocks to Protestantism. A mediaeval writer, Francois de Belleforest, thus describes Besancon:
A habitant's wife, learning that a near neighbour had made an offering to the curé for prayers for rain, declared that she would give nothing, since if rain fell on the neighbour's farm it would not stop there: "S'il mouille chez les Pierrot Benjamin, il mouillera ben icitte." In each year, if he chooses, the habitant has a good many chances to cast his vote.
It is comforting to reflect, in these times of hurried changes, that the traveller to Bastia may still find himself chez Clement may still have to kick at the closed door of the first-floor flat, and find that door opened by Clement himself, always affable, always gentlemanly, with the same crumbs strewed carelessly down the same waistcoat, or, if it is evening time, in his spotless cook's dress.
And here a voice, the voice of the directress, interposed: "Mademoiselle Henri, je crois qu'il va pleuvoir; vous feriez bien, ma bonne amie, de retourner chez vous tout de suite." In silence, without a word of thanks for this officious warning, Mdlle.
Nor should it be forgotten that the gates of the Luxembourg were by her thrown open to all the beaux esprits of her time, "qui y trouvaient leur place comme chez Mécænas;" and that she fostered both by encouragement and example La Rochefoucauld and La Bruyère, and that it is no slight claim to remembrance that she led France to appreciate the Maxims of the one and the Characters of the other.
He lunched and dined chez Clement always, and was frankly, good naturedly bored at Bastia. He hated Corsica, had no sympathy with the Corsican, and was a Northern Frenchman to the tips of his long white fingers.
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