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As a result he was for some years in disfavor with the high officials surrounding the Emperor a disfavor that no doubt cost him vast sums; but he always asserted that he was glad he had insisted on his right. On one occasion I was witness to a sad faux pas at his dinner-table.
Under the pretense that we want to study it more in detail we pulverize the statue it is an absurdity of which our pedantry is constantly guilty. Those who can only see the fragments of a thing are to me esprits faux, just as much as those who disfigure the fragments.
That it was a conspiracy against the ordained government of the day, as much so as that of Catiline, or Guy Faux, or Napoleon III., they do not know generally, because Cæsar, who, though the youngest of the three, was the mainspring of it, rose by means of it to such a galaxy of glory that all the steps by which he rose to it have been supposed to be magnificent and heroic.
Fine animal, isn't he? Always reminds me of a prize bull." "How frightful!" said Doris with a gasp. "It's the worst faux pas I have ever made." "Cheer up!" said Hugh consolingly. "No doubt he was flattered by the little attention. He took it very well." "That doesn't make matters any better," said Doris. "I almost wish he hadn't." Whereupon Hugh laughed again. "Oh, don't wish that!
A letter from Lady Clonbrony arrived; he opened it with the greatest eagerness passed over 'Rheumatism warm weather warm bath Buxton balls Miss Broadhurst your FRIEND, Sir Arthur Berryl, very assiduous! The name of Grace Nugent he found at last, and read as follows: Her mother's maiden name was ST. OMAR; and there was a FAUX PAS, certainly.
"Why!" cried Lily, rather sharply, "you speak as though Hessie was always getting into trouble." "You cannot deny but that she has frequently made a faux pas, as it were," said Jess, smiling. "And what she does wrong," added Laura, with some bitterness, "usually affects the rest of us." "She did not do a thing wrong!" cried Lily stormily. "You girls are just too mean!"
"Sort of faux pas, isn't it, to suggest that a brigand would be a better husband for Myra than yours truly, and that Myra is a suitable wife for a brigand?" "That, of course, depends on the brigand," answered Don Carlos, with a smile. "Of course, if Myra is really scared, and is genuinely afraid to come to Spain lest she should lose her heart "
When near her I have to keep a tight rein on my tongue for fear of being guilty of a faux pas. A pinch of a round cheek, a warm kiss given and returned, an arm about a lithe waist, is what I like. Her Grace is an iceberg." Carter flushed angrily at the comparison. He restrained with some difficulty the stinging words of rebuke which sprang to his lips in Trusia's defense.
Thus, for a year, the object of his real displeasure and her affected commiseration lived under a cloud, too proud to complain of her thraldom, but feeling it every second; mourning, in the seclusion of the trebly barred chambers of her heart, over her shattered idol and squandered affections, and fancying, in the morbid distrust engendered by the discovery of her lover's baseness, and the weight of her brother's unsparing reprobation of her insane imprudence, that she descried in every face, save Aunt Rachel's, contempt or rebuke for the faux pas that had so nearly cast a stigma upon her name and lineage.
The people by whom this trade was conducted, 'faux sauniers', as they were called, travelled over the provinces in bands well armed and well organized. So powerful had they become that troops were necessary in order to capture them. There were more than five thousand faux saumers, who openly carried on their traffic in Champagne and Picardy.
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