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A Frenchman may be an unkind husband, a severe parent, or an arrogant master, yet never contract his features, or asperate his voice, and for this reason is, in the national sense, "un homme bien doux." His heart may become corrupt, his principles immoral, and his disposition ferocious yet he shall still retain his equability of tone and complacent phraseology, and be "un homme bien aimable."
She was humming a song, and as she neared the open staircase the words of her song came very distinctly to their ears Entends tu ma pensée qui le réspond tout bas? Ton doux chant me rappelle les plus beaux de mes jours. "My mother's voice," said Peter, in bewildered accents; and he dropped his eyeglass. The canon showed a presence of mind that seldom distinguished him.
"Nothing yet to inconvenience you, but our Governor Clinton may send you a billet doux from Albany before May ends and June begins if this periwigged beau, St. Leger, strolls out to ogle Stanwix " Dorothy turned her horse sharply, saluted Sir George, and galloped away towards her father, who had halted at the cross-roads to wait for us. "Good-bye, Sir George," I said, offering my hand.
"A prince, affable, gentle, humane, patient, modest, full of compunctions, and, as much as his position allowed sometimes beyond it humble, and severe towards himself." Was it not to the life? "Affable, doux, humain patient, modeste humble et austère pour soi" beyond what was expected, beyond, almost, what was becoming?
Confess, I gave you a fright just now. . . . But remember, I am not an English woman, and I do not look upon the exchanging of BILLET DOUX as a crime, and I vow I'll not tell my little Suzanne. But now, tell me, shall I welcome you at my water-party on Wednesday?" "I am not sure, Lady Blakeney," he replied evasively. "I may have to leave London to-morrow."
It may be called the motive of Mélisande's Gentleness: XXIV. MÉLISANDE'S GENTLENESS As Golaud's still unvanquished doubts and suspicions torture him into harsh interrogations, and he asks her if she loved Pelléas "with a forbidden love," an oboe and two flutes recall, p et doux, the Rapture motive.
She took the old guard of the Vienna Court Theater by storm, and the very next morning a perfect shower of billets doux, jewels and bouquets fell into the poor ballet girl's attic.
Nay, Gabriel had left at home on his little farm near the village a young wife of a fortnight. And so his lip quivered as he sang: "Petit Rocher de la Haute Montagne, Je vien finir ici cette campagne! Ah! doux echos, entendez mes soupirs; En languissant je vais bientot mouir!"
It seemed inevitable that he should be there; part of the restless, glorious night, part of her mood. She gave no start of surprise, but half closed her eyes and leaned her fair head against a pillar of the veranda. He sang in a sweet undertone an old chanson of voyage. "Par derrièr' chez mon père, Vole, mon coeur, vole! Par derrièr' chez mon père Li-ya-t-un pommier doux."
The aviator stood in the doorway, but came no farther. "Because I have to take Pete away. I've had a billet doux from Rufus Carder and he wants him." The dwarf rushed to his new master on quaking legs. "Oh, Master! I won't go! I can't go." He looked off wildly on the big billows rolling in. "I'll throw myself in the sea." Ben put a hand on the boy's shoulder.
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