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Seeing me emerge from the darkness, and cross over towards the spot where he was standing, he drew aside with the air of a man upon his guard, and put his hand quickly into his breast. "I beg your pardon, Monsieur," I began. "What! my dear Damon! is it you?" he interrupted, and held out both hands. I grasped them joyously. "Dalrymple, is it you?" "Myself, Damon faute de mieux."
Indeed the first nominally complete English translation, a sadly mutilated and garbled rendering of the French version by Antoine Le Macon, did not appear till 1620, and though successive redactions brought it nearer to the original, it remained at the best but a sorry faute de mieux. Such as it was, however, our forefathers were perforce fain to be content with it.
"Is it believed that I could leap over it?" he asked. "A matter of five metres? Merci, non! I am not so agile. You flatter me." The old Michel spread out his two gnarled hands. "Pas de ma faute. I have orders, Monsieur. It will be my painful duty to shoot if Monsieur approaches that wall." He turned his strange head on one side and regarded Ste. Marie with his sharp and beadlike eye.
The first time I ordered "a chop," I thought I had amply explained every necessary particular; a certain portion of flesh, and a gridiron: at seven o'clock, up came a cotelette panee, faute de mieux. I swallowed the composition, drowned as it was, in a most pernicious sauce. I had one hour's sleep, and the nightmare, in consequence.
That is to me, said King Leodegrance, the best tidings that ever I heard, that so worthy a king of prowess and noblesse will wed my daughter. And as for an hundred good knights I have myself, but I faute fifty, for so many have been slain in my days. And in all haste the king let ordain for the marriage and the coronation in the most honourable wise that could be devised.
Out of the tail of her eye, Esther saw the young man merely shrug his shoulders. She grew more and more interested. "Listen, Arthur. Can we not find you something here?" "Good God, in Cannes?" She answered the utter contempt of this with a burst of self-reproach. "Mon Dieu, mon Dieu, c'est de ma faute, si j'avais su " "Oh, cut it, old girl, what's the good of post-mortems?" "But it was my fault!
All these cheap delights, the gold, the colors, the garden, the music, the lights, are paid for by the losses of feeble-minded Avarice. But, there I said all this to Ned Severne, and I might as well have preached sense to the wind." "Harrington, I will not play. I am much happier walking with my good brother " "Faute de mieux."
Gavroche sang: "Je ne suis pas notaire, "I am not a notary, C'est la faute a Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Je suis un petit oiseau, I'm a little bird, C'est la faute a Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of Rousseau." A fifth bullet only succeeded in drawing from him a third couplet.
La religion n'inspirait qu'un médiocre respect. La faute en était en partie
On hearing this, Roger expressed his regret at having so nearly ended the other's career. The little man's animosity had quite vanished, his black eyes shone with kindly affection which included his late enemy. "Ah, ça n'est rien, monsieur, ç'était ma faute, je vous assure! And how goes everything with you, mademoiselle?" "Quite all right, thank you, Jacques. And you?"
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