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His fancy had been once tickled by hearing a market-woman say that, though she did not know my name, she identified me as "la petite Dame difficile," and he called me so when I found fault with his attire. A few days before the wedding he had gone to Autun, to fetch different things in the carriage, among them his dress-coat and frock-coat, and after putting on the last, came for my verdict.
I’ve had longer than you to cultivate it." Mary looked towards the mountains, serene in their strength. "Awesome as they are," she laughed, "they don’t frighten me nearly as much as Ben and Ned. They are really very difficile, my pupils, and I feel so ridiculous sitting up back of that tub, teaching them letters and the spelling of foolish words, when they know things I’ve never dreamed of.
That it will do so, however, I feel as certain as that we shall require from our dramatic critics in the future higher qualification than that they can remember Macready or have seen Benjamin Webster; we shall require of them, indeed, that they cultivate a sense of beauty. Pour etre plus difficile, la tache n'en est que plus glorieuse.
I wish I could have done it sooner; but it is magnum opus et difficile, and I have had judgements in chancery and other work on hand, and in this I felt obliged to trust to no amanuensis. By her maiden name she was Pleasance Reeve, an old family friend, but not a relation of her namesake.
So unfortunate that he is so difficile. By the way, he is hand and glove with the new assistant. Were you aware of that?" "I knew that he came to tea here yesterday," said Olga. "Oh! And how did you find that out?" "He told me." "You mean you asked him!" "Indeed, I didn't!" Olga refuted the charge with indignation. "I don't take the smallest interest in his doings." "Not really?"
"That face pleases me," he would say, "it is therefore beautiful!" He ought to have thanked God for having given him such an exquisite eye for the beautiful; but 'omne pulchrum difficile'.
"Indeed, but I am, my dear," replied O'Brien; "and so is this lad with me; and the favour which your sister requires is that you help us over the water, for which service there are one hundred louis ready to be paid upon delivery of us." "Oh, mon Dieu! mais c'est impossible." "Impossible!" replied O'Brien; "was that the answer I gave your sister in her trouble?" "Au moins c'est difficile."
It is, at bottom, the same thought as is present in the very well-turned sentence from Chamfort: Le bonheur n'est pas chose aisée: il est très difficile de le trouver en nous, et impossible de le trouver ailleurs. Eth.
"Mais, monsieur je ne sais pas suivre vous allez si vite." "Je n'ai rien compris, moi!" Here a general murmur arose, and the teacher, opening her lips for the first time, ejaculated "Silence, mesdemoiselles!" No silence followed on the contrary, the three ladies in front began to talk more loudly. "C'est si difficile, l'Anglais!" "Je deteste la dictee."
A la vérité, son Français se ressent du sol. Il a beaucoup d'anglicismes et de locutions vicieuses; et la raison n'en est pas difficile
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