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Many of the guests retired without bidding farewell to their host; he liked them to feel at their ease, to take "French leave" whenever so disposed to depart "A L'ANGLAISE," as the French say. The garden was nearly empty. A great quietude had fallen upon its path and thickets.
The ladies were shocked, and my husband was censured for letting me 'faire l'Anglaise, but we were young and full of spirits, and the being thus thrown on each other had put an end to his timidity towards me.
In the middle of his raging, he would lean over his bed and peer into my face, crying "L'Anglaise l'Anglaise," with his black eyes snapping like dagger points. I often had to turn away and put my pillow over my eyes. But one afternoon, in the middle of it, the great silence fell on him, and Emile's struggles were over. Our days were all the same. Nobody came to see us; we had no books.
The only respect, therefore, in which they differ from you, is the previous kindness: now if we are to receive strangers, I can really see no reason why we are not to be as civil to them as possible; and so far from imputing the desire to please them to a bad heart, I think it a thousand times more amiable and benevolent than telling them, a l'Anglaise, by your morosity and reserve, that you do not care a pin what becomes of them.
I knew the king too well to be blind to the danger of allowing this mere whim of the moment to take root in his mind. One idea caught my fancy, and without mentioning it to Comte Jean, I determined upon carrying it into execution. The marechale de Mirepoix happened at this moment not to be at Paris at her hotel in the rue Bergere, but at her country house, situated au Port a l'Anglaise.
Here you may breakfast a l'Anglaise or a la fourchette, that is in the most substantial manner, in the French fashion, read the papers, dine, or sup sumptuously in any style you choose, or drink coffee and liqueurs, or merely eat ices.
"You have no right to come to my post and raise a disturbance, and attack my son." "I want some rum. I pay," returned the Frenchman. "I haf English money plenty, too!" With a leer, he put one hand into his outer garment and felt around in a pocket. Then he felt in his other pockets. "Ha! the money, it is gone!" he cried. "You take my money too! This is the coup de grace truly But, a l'Anglaise!"
Why you should all make up your minds I love Mademoiselle de Pignerolles I know not. I have never thought of the matter myself. I am but just twenty, and at twenty in England we are still little more than boys. I only know that I liked her very much, just as I did when she was a little girl." "Oh, monsieur, but you are sly, you and l'Anglaise.
But, before I give the letter to my readers, I must state, that Mr Selwyn, junior, had called upon me the day before Caroline went to school, and had had a long conversation with her, while I went out to speak with Madame Gironac on business: further, that Mr Selwyn, junior, called upon me a few days afterwards, and after a little common-place conversation, a l'anglaise, about the weather, he asked after Miss Caroline Stanhope, and then asked many questions.
On the following day. at an early hour, I repaired to the Port a l'Anglaise; M. de Rumas arrived there a few minutes after myself. He had the air and look of an honest man, but perhaps no species of deceit is more easily detected than that quiet, subdued manner, compressed lips, and uplifted eye.
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