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Then that he should be bothered alone, isn't fair, So he'll just bother you a bit, pour se distraire, This will partly account for the milk then the fact is That some heavy swell says that it's deuced good practice, And then it's a natural consequence, too, Of the classical culture he's just been put through.
Aunt Dorothy having departed into the shadowy realm of dreams, Charlotte and I were left to our own devices. There was a backgammon board on a side-table, surmounted by an old Indian bowl of dried rose-leaves; and, pour nous distraire, I proposed that I should teach my dearest that diverting game.
Quand, apres quelques annees, mon pere se maria, Catherine continua son activite dans la maison, mais avec son bon sens naturel, en refera la responsabilite a sa jeune maitresse, qu'elle aimait beaucoup. Ma mere chercha par bien des moyens a la distraire de son chagrin. Elle devint plus gaie, quand elle nous raconta des histoires et fit des jeux avec nous.
Wouldn't it distraire Madame to dine to-night, let us say, at Ciro's, or the Hotel de Paris, and look in at the Casino afterward? Madame is always so sad." The man was too insignificant for her wrath, but not so insignificant that he couldn't be a warning.
To lose everything " She paused again. "You make it more alluring, somehow, than the prospect of endless London seasons Diana Vyell, with a fading face and her market missed that's how they'll put it and, pour me distraire this side of the grave, the dower-house, a coach, a pair of wind-broken horses, and the consolations of religion! If we were capable of it. . . . But where's the use of talking?
"Every one must do what they can," said Jeanne. "Perfectly," said Aunt Morin. "You are a young girl who well understands things. And now it is not good for young people to stay in a sick-room one needs the fresh air. Va te distraire, ma petite. I am quite comfortable." So Jeanne went out to distract a self already distraught with great wonder, great pride and great fear. He had done that for her.
Hist. des Reines et Régentes de France, vol. ii. p. 28. Malherbe, the favourite poet of Marie de Medicis, profited by the tediousness of her voyage to make it the subject of an allegory, in which he represents that Neptune "Dix jours ne pouvant se distraire Au plaisir de la regarder, Il a, par un effort contraire, Essayé de la retarder."
In this he proved himself a very low-minded and ignominious creature, no doubt; but was not one Oliver Goldsmith glad to take any order which good Mr. Newberry might give him, only writing the "Traveller" and the story of Parson Primrose pour se distraire? Love lent wings to the young essayist's pen.
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