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Who were the copious Hunts? whose ample house, on the north side, toward Seventh Avenue, still stands, next or near that of the De Peysters, so that I perhaps confound some of the attributes of each, though clear as to the blond Beekman, or "Beek," of the latter race, not less than to the robust George and the stout, the very stout, Henry of the former, whom I see bounding before a gathered audience for the execution of a pas seul, clad in a garment of "Turkey red" fashioned by his own hands and giving way at the seams, to a complete absence of dessous, under the strain of too fine a figure: this too though I make out in those connections, that is in the twilight of Hunt and De Peyster garrets, our command of a comparative welter of draperies; so that I am reduced to the surmise that Henry indeed had contours.
There is something desperately significant in a language in which the lover who supports, protects and is deceived is called "le dessus," and the one who is favored at his expense "le dessous;" while the words "une femme," a woman, without qualification, are identical with frailty, and virtue, being the exception, demands an adjective to identify and proclaim it.
First of all come the skirts and the young ladies who preside over the fabrication of the dessous, or underclothing, for it is an axiom in modern French dress-making that half the success of the toilet depends on the underclothing, or, as the French put it in their neat way, "Le dessous est pour la moitié dans la réussite du dessus."
Why Harriot should be so anxious to serve a husband whom she hates, bitterly hates, might surprise any body who did not know les dessous des cartes as well as I do. You are but just come into the world, Belinda the world of wickedness, I mean, my dear, or you would have heard what a piece of work there was a few years ago about Harriot Freke and this cousin of hers.
Besides," he added, "I don't think he really wants Chad back. If Chad doesn't come " "He'll have" Madame de Vionnet quite apprehended "more of the free hand?" "Well, Chad's the bigger man." "So he'll work now, en dessous, to keep him quiet?" "No he won't 'work' at all, and he won't do anything en dessous. He's very decent and won't be a traitor in the camp.
Pitt; but what that 'dessous' is, I do not know, though all the coffeehouses do most exactly. The present inaction, I believe, gives you leisure enough for 'ennui', but it gives you time enough too for better things; I mean reading useful books; and, what is still more useful, conversing with yourself some part of every day.
«Parmi les chose intéressantes qu'offrent les rives de Chilea, on remarque au dessous de la fonderie, des collines de petunt-fé blanc comme la neige, parsemé de mica argentin de la plus grande ténuité.
«Le rocher de la cascade, représenté par la planche IV. est tout calcaire; les couches, qui sont au dessous des lettres d et e, sont composées de ce roc gris compact dont les bancs, comme nous l'avons vu plus haut, sont ordinairement épais, mais les couches extérieures entre e et f, sont du roc brun
But where would she be more likely to find what she wanted than in the columns of a journal whose reporters listened behind doors and peeped through keyholes? Under the heading of 'Les Dessous Parisiens', she read on the first page: "Two hens lived in peace; a cock came And strife soon succeeded to joy; E'en as love, they say, kindled the flame That destroyed the proud city of Troy.
Tout près du sommet du Col, on rencontre de beaux bancs de grès jaunâtre qui sortent de dessous la pierre calcaire, et qui pourtant ne font aucune effervescence avec les acides.
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