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The lady receives you in the most polite and gracious manner, and with all those 'complimens de routine' which every French woman has equally.
"I can tell you he thinks you very handsome already; and when he sees you dress!" "Really! he does me honour; he did not seem as if he had even seen me, more than any of the trees in the wood, or the chairs in the room." "Chairs! Oh, now you fish for complimens! But I shall not tell you how like he thinks you, if you were mise a la Francoise, to la belle Comtesse de Barnac."
I couldn't a-bear to see her siffer in that 'ere manner I did feel for her almost as much as if she'd been an 'oss." The landlord gave the two charioteers force de complimens for the tenderness of their feelings, the intensity of which he fully comprehended, as he changed for each his guinea, the bounty of the lady.
He further notes as a point of interest, "Your black man, Alexander, was with me this instant to inquire after your health, and has loaded me with beaucoup de complimens. He wishes much to come to make your bread."
I grieve to say, in that portion which is devoted to modesty and propriety of behaviour, the extreme freedom of manner and conversation in which young English females indulge, are both severely reprobated; their imprudence in walking about and sitting apart with young men held up as an example to be sedulously avoided by well-bred French girls; their so frequently taking complimens d'usage for real admiration, and either fancying the poor man, innocently repeating mere words of course, to be a lover, or else blushing and looking offended, as if he meant to insult, is sneered at rather ill-naturedly.
There was he plucking at me: "Monsieur Henri-Richie, Monsieur Henri-Richie! mille complimens... et les potages, Monsieur! a la Camerani, a la tortue, aux petits pois... c'est en vrai artiste que j'ai su tout retarder jusqu'au dernier moment.... Monsieur! cher Monsieur Henri-Richie, je vous en supplie, laissez-la, ces planteurs de choux."
I have a letter from the Duc d'Havré, dated Edinburgh, where he was on a visit to Monsieur. He was going to embark for the continent. Mille complimens de sa part pour miladi, &c. &c. Afterwards Louis XVIII. "May 5th. We have had, the last three days, a strong S.E. gale, which has brought us off Ireland.
The lady receives you in the most polite and gracious manner, and with all those 'complimens de routine' which every French woman has equally.
There was he plucking at me: "Monsieur Henri-Richie, Monsieur Henri-Richie! mille complimens . . . et les potages, Monsieur! a la Camerani, a la tortue, aux petits pois . . . c'est en vrai artiste que j'ai su tout retarder jusqu'au dernier moment . . . . Monsieur! cher Monsieur Henri-Richie, je vous en supplie, laissez-la, ces planteurs de choux."
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