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They stayed a week in Paris, where Helen bought more dresses and declared herself supremely happy; they visited the falls of the Rhine, which Maurice said deafened him; and ran through Switzerland, which they both voted detestably uncomfortable and dirty the hotels, bien entendu, not the mountains. They stopped a night on the St.
Having spent hard cash in this investment, they have every intention of getting their money's worth. In order to give outsiders a vivid impression of the footing on which they stand with the great of the world, all the women they have just met become Nellys and Jennys, and all the men Dicks and Freds behind their backs, bien entendu for Mrs.
"Ce Smiley avait une jument que les gars appelaient le bidet du quart d'heure, mais seulement pour plaisanter, vous comprenez, parce que, bien entendu, elle etait plus vite que ca! Et il avait coutume de gagner de l'argent avec cette bete, quoi-qu'elle fut poussive, cornarde, toujours prise d'asthme, de coliques ou de consomption, ou de quelque chose d'approchant.
She shivered in his hold, but she clung to him. "I don't feel like a permanent institution," she told him rather piteously. "And when you are angry " "I am not angry," said Saltash, and tweaked her ear as though she had been a boy. "But whether you feel like it or not you are my wife, and you have got to play the part. C'est entendu, n'est-ce-pas?" "Whatever you wish," said Toby faintly.
"You do," answered she, very dryly; and so the dialogue went on, and Lord Ipsden found the pleasure of being with his cousin compensate him fully for the difference of their opinions; in fact, he found it simply amusing that so keen a wit as his cousins s could be entrapped into the humor of decrying the time one happens to live in, and admiring any epoch one knows next to nothing about, and entrapped by the notion of its originality, above all things; the idea being the stale commonplace of asses in every age, and the manner of conveying the idea being a mere imitation of the German writers, not the good ones, bien entendu, but the quill-drivers, the snobs of the Teutonic pen.
The nasal drag she gave to the words was partly natural, partly insolent. Madame d'Estrées bit her lip. "Oui?" said Kitty, indifferently. "Je n'en avais jamais entendu parler." Her brilliant eyes studied the woman before her. "She has some hold on maman," she said to herself, in disgust. "She knows of something shady that maman has done."
It discomposes me. 'Nothing is extraordinary, as that good creature Dr. Sampson says. He must have thought it would answer, in one way or another, to have a gentlewoman at the head of his table; and I was not penniless, bien entendu. Failing in this, he found a plain little Thing, with a gloomy temper, and no accomplishments nor graces; but her father could settle twenty thousand pounds.
Le Compte, all his officers, and not a few of his men, had been prisoners, some time or other, in England, and there was no difficulty in carrying on the negotiations in our mother tongue. "Votre batiment your sheep, shall become French bien entendu" commenced our captor "vid her cargaison rig, and tout cela. Bien; c'est convenu. I shall not exact rigueur in mes conditions.
They are characterised by the brothers de Goncourt as le plus grand effort du peintre, les deux grandes machines de son oeuvre; and the writer of the catalogue of Madame de Pompadour's pictures when they were sold in 1766 testifies thus to the artist's own opinion of them: "J'ai entendu plusieurs fois dire par l'auteur qu'ils étaient du nombre de ceux dont il était le plus satisfait."
After a brief inspection of the array of bottles he called through the little passage that led to the kitchen: "Jacques! Here then! Got any lemons?" "Des citrons? Oui, monsieur, j'en ai." "Squeeze a couple and bring me the juice." "Entendu, monsieur." With a thoughtful face Holliday measured equal parts of gin and Cointreau into the shaker.
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