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Yet Hugo had announced that he would sell two thousand of them at that price, not to mention muffs to match at the same figure. And there was the famous 'Incroyable' corset, white coutille, with wide belted band round hips, double belt to buckle at sides, cut low Enough!
There was only a sense of stupefaction which seemed to numb the intelligence of men so that they could not reason with any show of logic, or speak of this menace without incoherence, but thrust back the awful possibility with one word, uttered passionately and repeated a thousand times a day: "Incroyable!" This word was dinned in my ears. I caught the sound of it as I walked along the boulevards.
The particular manner of fixing the hat on the occiput, the triple waistcoat, the vast cravat engulfing the chin, the gaiters, the metal buttons on the greenish coat, all these reminiscences of Imperial fashions were blended with a sort of afterwaft and lingering perfume of the coquetry of the Incroyable with an indescribable finical something in the folds of the garments, a certain air of stiffness and correctness in the demeanor that smacked of the school of David, that recalled Jacob's spindle-legged furniture.
Tell Mr Beaujou, the slopseller, to come here directly with some clothes for him. Is Captain Debriseau here?" "He is, sir, lost all his last cargo obliged to throw over in deep water." "Never mind: he ran the two before he can afford it." "Ah, but Captain Debriseau is in a very bad humour, nevertheless. He called me an old cheat this morning c'est incroyable."
Physically, Sir Percy Blakeney was undeniably handsome always excepting the lazy, bored look which was habitual to him. He was always irreproachable dressed, and wore the exaggerated "Incroyable" fashions, which had just crept across from Paris to England, with the perfect good taste innate in an English gentleman.
The Incroyable, the Merveilleux, the Elegant, the three successes of the petit-maitre of discreditable etymology, have made way for the "dandy" and the "lion." The lion is not the parent of the lionne. The lionne is due to the famous song by Alfred de Musset: Avez vous vu dans Barcelone .... C'est ma maitresse et ma lionne.
"Quelle dame extraordinaire!" moaned the patron. "C'est incroyable la sangfroid de celle-l
My portrait, which he drew for my mother at that time in black and red pencils, is now in my wife's possession. I also took my sketch- book, for he had seen the school volume I had filled with arabesques just before leaving Keilhau, and I still remember the 'merveilleux and incroyable, inoui, and insense' which he lavished on the certainly extravagant creatures of my love-sick imagination.
In truth, she could not go; she had been too vitally stirred; she began to tremble excessively, and sank back upon the bench, motioning him away with vague gestures of her shaking hands. This was more than the Incroyable had counted upon, and far from his desires. He started forward with an exclamation. "Don't come near me!" she gasped. "Who are you? Go away!"
Berlioz even went so far as to describe the overture as une niaiserie incroyable, and the vocal part sometimes shows the influence of the empty formulas from which Gluck was trying to escape.
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