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I believe all I hear that is but convenable but then, look you, I am quite as willing to believe in the contradiction which so frequently follows. One should never excite one's self about anything: be sure of this, my friend, it is bad for the nerves. What is salsify a bundle to-day?"
At present, in France, the delicate matter of titles seems to be better arranged, any gentleman, since the Revolution, being free to adopt any one he may fix upon; and it appears that the Crown no longer confers any patents of nobility, but contents itself with saying, as in the case of M. de Pontois, the other day, "Le Roi trouve convenable that you take the title of," &c.
"Pas convenable," she heard Mademoiselle say just behind her, "non, je connais ces gens-la, je vous promets... vraiment j'en ai peur...." Elsa responded with excited enquiries. They all trooped quietly in and the great doors closed behind them. "Vraiment j'ai peur," whispered Mademoiselle. Miriam saw a point of red light shining like a ruby far ahead in the gloom.
Toplington, who knew the world, had engaged rooms for the happy couple at the Grand Hotel. "We'll go to the Ritz on our way back," he decided, "but at first, in case there's scenes and tears, it's better to be a number than a name." Mademoiselle Henriette, the freshly engaged French maid, quite agreed with him. The Grand, she said, was "plus convenable pour une lune de Miel " Lune de Miel!
"Would it be right, convenable?" Mr. Greyne was reckless. The dog potential rose up in him again. "Why not? And, besides, who knows us here? Not a soul." "That is true." "Put on your bonnet. Let us start at once!" "But I do not wear the bonnet. I am not like madame." "To be sure. Your hat." And as she flew to obey him, Mr.
A grey wig is not a brown wig." "But you just said a wig is a wig." The coiffeur gave angry rubs at the head, in time with his explosive phrases. "You want real hair, I presume and to your measure and to look natural and convenable!" "Private theatricals!" repeated Madame Dépine, aghast. "A comédienne's wig I can sell you for a bagatelle. That passes at a distance."
Estelle would have liked to do the same, but her mother and Mademoiselle Julienne considered the sport not convenable for a demoiselle.
She dropped her face in her hands, laughing to herself, the delicious tremors of first love running through her. Would she hear from him? She understood she was to be written to, though she had never asked it. But ought she to allow it? Was it convenable? She knew that girls now did what they liked threw all the old rules overboard.
This lady was ordered to give up her charge to the guardianship of Sir Rudolph; but she refused to do so, saying that it would not be convenable for a young lady to be under the guardianship of a bachelor knight having no lady at the head of his establishment, and that therefore she should retain her, in spite of the orders of the Prince.
The remainder of the afternoon was wasted utterly on the terrasse of the Café de l'Univers, with the château ever in view, wishing it were convenable to make one's duty call without more delay.
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