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Updated: May 1, 2025
She was noted for her gaiety and joie de vivre and for the energy with which she pursued enjoyment. Her cynicism did not cut deep, her irony was seldom poisoned. She spoke well of people, and was generous with her money. With her time she was less generous. She was not of those who are charitable with their golden hours. "I can't be bothered!" was the motto of her life.
But I am not bad. If there was any sense in things they would give me an order and a nice long title Grande Maitresse de la Vie Princesse de Joie." She lifted her eyebrows at him to see whether he appreciated the joke. "Ah well no. I talk too much about myself. Tell me instead what you think of my leetle 'ome. C'est joli, n'cest-ce-pas?"
They must be up and doing if they wish to retain the esteem of Pleasant Street. Aha!" Another and a longer explosion from below, and more bullets wasted themselves on air. Psmith sighed. "They make me tired," he said. "This is no time for a feu de joie. Action! That is the cry. Action! Get busy, you blighters!"
She did not try to marry a duke, elevate the stage or break into swell society. After closing her maison de joie she ceased to be "bonne camarade et bonne fille" in the tough de tough quarter of the Judean metropolis. There were no more strolls on the Battery by moonlight alone love after exchanging her silken robe de chambre for an old- fashioned nightgown with never a ruffle.
Consequently, whilst among polygamous nations every woman is provided for, where monogamy prevails the number of married women is limited; and there remains over a large number of women without stay or support, who, in the upper classes, vegetate as useless old maids, and in the lower succumb to hard work for which they are not suited; or else become filles de joie, whose life is as destitute of joy as it is of honor.
"Pardon me, but you have even less," said the notary. "If I may remind you of it, you have probably no title-deeds to Vasselot itself since the burning of the chateau." "There you are wrong," answered Lory, quietly. And the abbe snapped both fingers and thumbs in a double-barrelled feu de joie.
But I'd use the bull-pup, gran'pa see, this one the pacific one I'd empty upon him with powder only, as a sort of feu de joie and then I'd set up the song what's it? ah! Te Deum. A black spider always puts me in mind of a rascal." The youth barely stopped to swallow his breakfast, when be set off from the village.
An officer who was present describes the scene as follows: "Last Wednesday was set apart as a day of general rejoicing, when we had a feu de joie conducted with the greatest order and regularity. The army made a most brilliant appearance, after which his Excellency dined in public, with all the officers of his army, attended with a band of music.
She was beautiful also among the goat-skins of the Cossacks and the English uniforms, pushing her way through the throngs of men and letting her bare shoulders dazzle them on the steps of the gambling houses, under the jewellers' windows, beneath the lights of the cafés, between starvation and wealth. What are you regretting? I am regretting the fille de joie.
It is better to live in pain than to cease to be in peace. The truth is that I could not believe in this atrocity of Hell, of an eternity of punishment, nor did I see any more real hell than nothingness and the prospect of it. And I continue in the belief that if we all believed in our salvation from nothingness we should all be better. What is this joie de vivre that they talk about nowadays?
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