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Updated: May 23, 2025
In your way from a dinner to a ball, you stopped to exchange agreeable on dits. It seemed that every woman was pretty, every man a wit.
The conversation then turned on light and general matters, the scandal, the literature, the politics, the on dits of the day; and lastly upon women; thence Talbot dropped into his office of Mentor. "A celebrated cardinal said, very wisely, that few ever did anything among men until women were no longer an object to them.
In relation to what I am now speaking of, the Gascon proverb, derived from a cornpipe, is very quaint and subtle: "Bouha prou bouha, mas a remuda lous dits quem." We can say, Cicero says thus; these were the manners of Plato; these are the very words of Aristotle: but what do we say ourselves? What do we judge? A parrot would say as much as that.
"I am beginning to remember your face amongst the members of the club, though the name on your card did not strike me as familiar. You see, I have never been able to afford much time for relaxation at the Ragamuffins', though I assure you I found the agreeable conversation there, the literary on dits, and so on, a very great relief.
As we got into our saddles the humming-birds were whirring round the tree-tops; the Qu'est-ce qu'il dits inquiring the subject of our talk. The black vultures sat about looking on in silence, hoping that something to their advantage might be dropped or left behind possibly that one of our horses might die.
But who is that very polite, gentlemanlike young man, who has so kindly relinquished his seat to me, though it quite grieves me to take it from him?" added I: at the same time leaning back, with a comfortable projection of the feet, and establishing myself more securely in my usurped chair. "Pour l'amour de Dieu, tell me the on dits of the day.
"Ce seront les missionnaires qui feront toutes les négociations et qui dirigeront les pas des dits sauvages, ils sont en très bonnes mains, le R.P. Germain et M. l'Abbé Le Loutre étant fort au fait d'en tirer tout le party possible et le plus avantageux pour nos intérêts, ils ménageront leur intrigue de façon
There are too many of Kipling's Tomlinsons in the world, whose consciences are wholly compact of on dits, on whom the devil himself, sinned they never so sadly, would refuse to waste his good pit-coal.
The conversation then turned on light and general matters, the scandal, the literature, the politics, the on dits of the day; and lastly upon women; thence Talbot dropped into his office of Mentor. "A celebrated cardinal said, very wisely, that few ever did anything among men until women were no longer an object to them.
"Your knowledge of human nature should teach you how little truth is generally found in the floating on dits of social circles." "How long has she been widowed?" "I do not know, but presume that her affliction has not been very recent, as she wears no mourning."
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