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The moment she had vanished, he at once prepared to leave, not only the room, but the house. No one offered to detain him. The men were all too conscious of what they considered his 'faux pas' and they were also made rather uncomfortable by the decided rebuff he had received from their hostess. Yet they all liked him, and were, in their way, sorry for what had occurred.
That, to be sure, is not the way of the world: if it happens to see a fellow of fine proportions and aristocratic mien, who makes no faux pas, and wins golden opinions from all sorts of men, it straightway picks out for him the loveliest of unmarried women, and says, There would be a proper match!
I could not endure it another minute. I went over and said good night to my hostess who had spoken to me only once since my arrival. Drowsy as I was, I noticed she seemed surprised. "Oh, no," I told her; "I am not ill, only very sleepy." How good my pillow felt! The next morning Tom was cross. I had made a faux pas.
Abe Cone in his comparatively short career had done many impulsive and ill-considered things but he never committed a worse faux pas than when he dashed unannounced into Sprudell's office, at this moment, dragging an out-of-town customer by the arm. "Excuse me for intrudin'," he apologized breathlessly, "but my friend here, Mr. Herman Florsheim shake hands with Mr.
She had spent the afternoon at the hairdresser's; the idea of any calamity overtaking her hair was extremely repugnant yet as Peter made his unfortunate attempt the point of his elbow had just faintly brushed it. That was his second faux pas. Two were quite enough. He had begun to murmur.
Faux agreed to his wife's views, and made a codicil to his will accordingly, in time to die with a clear conscience.
Dreux's dreadful faux pas she was so hurt, she grieved so that I couldn't but believe she felt deeply." Norvin flushed dully and said nothing. Vittoria smiled down upon him with a look that was half maternal in its sweetness. "All this has been painful for you," she said, "and you have become over-excited. You must not talk any more now. You are to be moved soon."
His deep-set eyes seem to withhold themselves from the active street. In the sauve spectacle of the avenue his motionless figure is like an awkward faux pas in a parlor conversation. The newspaper man on his way to the I. C. station pauses to light his pipe and his eyes take in the figure of this motionless one.
At the outset of its career it was known as New Spring Gardens, and it continued to be described as Spring Gardens in the official announcements, till 1786, although for many years previously the popular designation was Vauxhall. The origin of that name is involved in obscurity, but it is supposed to have been derived from a family of the name of Faux who once held the manor.
"Well, ma'am," said Mrs Costelloe, the grocer's wife, from Tuam, an old friend of the widow, who had got into a corner with her to have a little chat, and drink half-a-pint of porter before the ceremony, "and I'm shure I wish you joy of the marriage. Faux, I'm tould it's nigh to five hundred a-year, Miss Anty has, may God bless and incrase it!
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