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'You see, she said eagerly, 'I haven't got a grain of jealousy. All that part is quite finished. That's the very reason why I can judge calmly. She fastened up the letter, and then said with a smile: 'And now, let's be happy the rest of the summer. Won't you? He answered that she was impayable marvellous that he would help her devote himself to doing whatever she wished.
Another famous "impayable" was the coffin-cart man who came on occasions to drive the men to their last resting place. The Coffin cart was a melancholy looking vehicle resembling in appearance a dilapidated old crow, as much as anything, or a large bird of prey with its torn black canvas sides that flapped mournfully like huge wings in the wind as Pierre drove it along the streets. I could never repress a shiver when I saw it flapping along. The driver was far from being a sorry individual with his crisp black moustaches bien frisés and his merry eye. He explained to me in a burst of confidence that his métier in peace times was that of a trick cyclist on the Halls. What a contrast from his present job. He promised to borrow a bicycle on the morrow and give an exhibition for our benefit in the yard. He did so, and was certainly no mean performer. The only day I ever saw him really downcast was when he came to bid good-bye. "What, Pierre," said I, "you don't mean to say you are leaving us?" "Yes, Miske, for punishment I will explain how it arrived. Look you, to give pleasure to my young lady I took her for a joy-ride, a very little one, on the coffin cart, and on returning behold we were caught, voil
At that moment a tall, broad-shouldered general entered the room. It was Countess Charskaia's husband, a retired Minister of State. "Ah, Dmitri, how do you do?" he said, putting out his clean-shaven cheek. "When did you get here?" He silently kissed his wife on the forehead. "Non, il est impayable." Countess Catherine Ivanovna turned to her husband.
"They are all expressive, I know, of different phases of mercantile despair. I believe these men keep a supplicant, as Moses maintains a poet. The last appeal from my saddler was perfectly heartrending: he could not have written it himself, for he looks as tough as his own pig-skin. If he had, he would be impayable in more ways than one. What can I do?
This fortunately, however and the more so as his freedom for the time quite left him didn't prevent his hostess, the evening of his advent and while the vision was new, from being exactly as queer and rare and IMPAYABLE, as improbable, as impossible, as delightful at the eight o'clock dinner she appeared to keep these immense hours as she had overwhelmingly been at the five o'clock tea.
"Ah, monsieur, but you are sanguine! No officer of justice has ever succeeded in arresting le Colonel Caoutchouc, as we call him in French. He is as slippery as an eel, that man. He wriggles through our fingers. Suppose even we caught him, what could we prove? I ask you. Nobody who has seen him once can ever swear to him again in his next impersonation. He is impayable, this good Colonel.
The waiter was a jovial fellow and knew Cronshaw intimately. Cronshaw gazed at him. "If you give me your word of honour as a nobleman and a gentleman that nobody but I has been drinking my whiskey, I'll accept your statement." This remark, translated literally into the crudest French, sounded very funny, and the lady at the comptoir could not help laughing. "Il est impayable," she murmured.
'I'll think over what you said, said Edith casually as she stood up. 'What a funny little speech. You're impayable! Oh, you are a jolly girl! "Jolly" girl, repeated Edith, not apparently pleased. 'I'm thirty-five, with a boy at school and a growing girl of seven! 'You think too much of the almanac. I'm forty-one, with a son at the front. 'How on earth did you get your commissions?
"I am sure I am glad I have no attributes of fascination, if a strange old work I met with at Beauseincourt may be considered responsible. Did you ever see it, Miss Lamarque, you who see every thing? This naïveté on the part of the old chronicler was simply impayable, as Major Favraud would say, with his characteristic shrug.
I laughed out when I got to the mention of Frederika's special accomplishment, given by you with a distinct simplicity that, to my taste, is what the French would call 'impayable. Where do you find the foreigner who is without some little drawback of this description? It is a pity." A visit from Miss Wooler at this period did Miss Bronte much good for the time.
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