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"Rather a matter of manque de mieux?" he suggested coolly. She turned from her contemplation of the crowd below. "I am not going to contradict you," she said, "I never foster amour propre in a man. It is always a plant of hardy growth." "'Hardy' is not the word," he declared. "Say 'rank, and you will be nearer the mark. I fully endorse your opinion.
«La gorge même de Monetier, ou cette grande échancrure qui sépare le grand Saleve du petit, et dans le fond de laquelle est renfermé le joli vallon de Monetier, paroît avoir été formée par un courant semblable, qui descendant des Alpes par la vallée de l'Arve, venoit se jetter dans notre grand courant; car les couches correspondantes du grand et du petit Saleve indiquent leur ancienne jonction; et l'on ne comprend pas quel agent auroit pu détacher et emporter la pièce énorme qui manque en cet endroit
It had come in a moment, wakened into quivering being by the caressive notes of the dear French voice "mais je suis jeune, et mon coeur est gueri, et il lui manque affreusement de la foi, de la tendresse, de de" adorable catch of emotion "de l'amitie." Friendship, indeed! For amitie all but her lips said amour. He walked beneath the wintry stars, a man in a perfect dream.
No more was heard of Louisiana, and few references were permitted to the disasters in St. Domingo; for Napoleon abhorred any mention of a coup manqué, and strove to banish from the imagination of France those dreams of a trans-Atlantic Empire which had drawn him, as they were destined sixty years later to draw his nephew, to the verge of war with the rising republic of the New World.
Now an embusqué is a slacker who lies in the safe ambush of a soft job. And an embusqué manqué is a slacker who fortuitously has failed to win the fungus wreath of slackerdom. She flushed deep red. "Je ne suis pas malhonnête, monsieur." Doggie spread himself elbow-wise over the table. The girl's visible register of moods was fascinating. "Pardon, Mademoiselle Jeanne. You are quite right.
But necessity knows no rules; and the driver soon aroused an old gentleman who came out and invited us in. A middle-aged lady met us, and made us perfectly at home by leaving us to take care of ourselves; most people would have thought it indifference; but I knew it was manque de savoir faire, merely, and preferred doing as I pleased. If she had been officious, I would have been embarrassed.
The principle which ought to develop into the active power of thought could not, he explains, in women master the recalcitrant element which is always thwarting perfection, and thus woman is man manqué.
"How couldn't you feel us to be the last the very last?" asked Mr. Probert with great gentleness. "How couldn't you feel my poor son to be the last ?" "C'est un sens qui lui manque!" shrilled implacably Mme. de Cliche. "Let her go, papa do let her go home," Mme. de Brecourt pleaded. "Surely. That's the only place for her to-day," the elder sister continued. "Yes, my child you oughtn't to be here.
He blushed; his hair tingled at the root; he was convinced that everybody round the table was looking at him with sardonic amusement. 'Quatre, noir, pair, et manque, cried the croupier. Black had won. Henry's heart was beating like a hammer.
So M. Léon Werth meets people who complain that "Bonnard manque de noblesse." Bonnard is not noble. A kitten jumping on to the table moves him, not because he sees in that gesture a symbol of human aspiration or of feminine instability, the spirit of youth or the pathos of the brute creation, nor yet because it reminds him of pretty things, but because the sight is charming.
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