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Would it not be dwarfing and cramping her, all her life probably, to give way to her now. Can it ever be too early to acquire self-reliance, and is it not one of the most necessary lessons for a responsible human being to learn? Besides, 'ce n'est que le premier pas qui coute. It is only the first wrench which will hurt her. She will find plenty of fresh interests and congenial occupations at St.
The encampment was close to the bottom of the hill round which the camel had carried him. He had at length made up his mind to dismount coute qui coute; but there was no time. Before he could make a movement to fling himself from the shoulders of the animal, he saw that he was discovered. A cry coming from the tents admonished him of this fact.
But to how many sides of your national character has the Bourse of Paris magnetic attraction! You Frenchmen are so brave that you could not be happy without facing danger, so covetous of distinction that you would pine yourselves away without a dash, coute quo coute, at celebrity and a red ribbon. Danger! look below at that arena: there it is; danger daily, hourly.
A letter of the 14th March, 1842, is written in better spirits and a lighter tone. Speaking of the prevalent hostile feeling towards England the writer wishes that her countrymen would remember Lamartine's observation that "ce patriotisme coûte peu! Il suffit d'ignorer, d'injurier et de hair."
Farrell launched into a racy and elaborate account the effort of one determined, coûte que coûte, to bring the conversation back to an ordinary key of Cicely's proceedings, during the ten days since Nelly had seen her.
I forswore bed, and held myself in readiness for a sally, candle in hand; for, coûte qui coûte, I was resolved to see the being, if visible at all, who troubled the nightly stillness of my mansion. I was fidgetty and nervous and tried in vain to interest myself with my books.
At last, not seeing the shark's fin above water, I made a sign to Charles that, coûte qui coûte, we must swim for it; for we had notice to quit, by the tide; and if we did not depart, should soon have an execution in the house.
Je suis un homme serieux." "It is very cheap to- day," said the girl. "Ca ne coute pas cher, en temps de guerre." After the battle of the Marne the old vitality of Paris was gradually restored. The people who had fled by hundreds of thousands dribbled back steadily from England and provincial towns where they had hated their exile and had been ashamed of their flight.
She has got a foolish idea into her head and so has my dear old papa, so she's not alone that I am marrying you to make up to you for ... for the accident." She found it harder and harder to speak of the nature of the accident. This once, she must do it, coûte que coûte. She went on, speaking low that nothing should reach the backgammon-players.
Either she must procure the lady's address "coûte que coûte," or I could not come down again to Wimbledon until this step had been taken. Under pressure of this determination of mine the address was procured, and this led to a rather unpleasant experience.
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