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'Ah, Beaujeu, mon cher ami, said he as he returned to his usual place in the line of march, 'que mon metier de prince errant est ennuyant, par fois. Mais, courage! c'est le grand jeu, apres tout.
'Let Mr Biffen bear in mind, said one of these sages, 'that a novelist's first duty is to tell a story. 'Mr Biffen, wrote another, 'seems not to understand that a work of art must before everything else afford amusement. 'A pretentious book of the genre ennuyant, was the brief comment of a Society journal.
How tedious and ennuyant to me can only be known by those who know me well, and how repugnant these trammels of society and ceremony are to nature. Nevertheless, I suffered this martyrdom with exemplary outward patience, though the spirit flagged, and the thoughts wandered, and the head often grew confused, with sitting and talking trifling nonsense, through a poor interpreter.
"Le jeune homme n'entends pas, madame," observed Mimi. "Que c'est ennuyant. Monsieur," said Madame Fontanges, pointing to herself, "moi, Madame de Fontanges: vous?" pointing to him. "Newton Forster." "Nu-tong Fasta ah, c'est bon; cela commence," said the lady. "Allons, mes enfans, répétez-lui tous vos noms." "Moi Mimi," said the girl bearing that name, going up to Newton, and pointing to herself.
"Le jeun homme n'entends pas madame," observed Mimi. "Que c'est ennuyant, monsieur," said Madame Fontanges, pointing to herself; "Moi Madame de Fontanges vous," pointing to him. "Newton Forster." "Nu tong Fasta ah, c'est bon, cela commence," said the lady. "Allons, mes enfans repetez lui tous vous noms." "Moi Mimi," said the girl bearing that name, going up to Newton, and pointing to herself.
She was a good-hearted woman, and there was something in the nature of Clara Winsleigh that, in spite of her easy-going conscience, she could not altogether approve of. "Do you never lunch with your husband, Clara?" she asked at last. Lady Winsleigh looked surprised. "Very seldom. Only when there is company, and I am compelled to be present. A domestic meal would be too ennuyant!
The worst of it is that the real, practical, moral simplicity of which I have been speaking is not an attractive thing to a generation fond of movement and excitement; what they desire is a picturesque mise-en-scene, a simplicity which comes as a little pretty interlude to busy life; they do not desire it in its entirety and continuously. They would find it dull, triste, ennuyant.
And so the complaisant but still considerate valet bowed himself out of a dilemma, that he found, as he muttered to himself, while retiring, 'tant soit peu ennuyant. The air and manner of the Alderman, as he approached his guest, were, like the character of the man, hale, hearty and a little occupied with his own enjoyments and feelings.
She was, indeed, wearied of the task that had been, in her eyes, so inadequately rewarded amusing for thirty and odd years a dull, resourceless, ennuye and ennuyant husband; and had no desire to see any more of him, either in this world or the next. At present there is but a sprinkling of Protestants in Millau. We took train to Mende.
"I was all of August in the country; only coming to the city twice." My heart sank: that was just what they had said; he had been a great deal at home this summer, and she had been there all the time. The dinner was becoming terribly ennuyant, and I wished with all my heart Throckmorton had been contented with just half the courses.
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