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Even her inexperienced eyes were struck with its vigor and fidelity. But she was also conscious of a sense of disappointment. Why was he not like the others copying one of the masterpieces? Becoming at last aware of a motionless woman behind him, he rose, and with a slight gesture of courtesy and a half-hesitating "Vous verrez mieux la, mademoiselle," moved to one side.
This account, as I read it after the final catastrophe, awoke a memory; and I found myself unconsciously humming the bit of satire upon these brave fellows, most of whom were now lying cold and stiff under the sky of Queretaro: "Mais, c'est egal, au moment de choisir J'aimerais mieux m'engager dans les Zouaves!" Ah me, how closely the ridiculous here approached the sublime!
"Yes," pursued the general; "forty alterations shuffling about continually. Cannot a man be decided?" "Always with poor Beauclerc," said Lady Cecilia, "le mieux est l'ennemi du bien." "No, my dear Cecilia, it is all his indolence; there he sat with a book in his hand all yesterday! with all his impetuosity, too indolent to stir in his own business," said the general.
"Mam'selle has captured so many that she is completely over weighted." "Twelve stone six ounces," pronounces the owner of the machine, adjusting the last weight. Whereupon there is a burst of ironical applause, and the big paysanne, half laughing, half angry, walks off, exclaiming, "Eh bien! tant mieux! I've no mind to be a scarecrow moi!"
Supper comes up, and a good one it is, upon the strength of your being able to pay for it. 'La Marquise en fait les honneurs au mieux, talks sentiments, 'moeurs et morale', interlarded with 'enjouement', and accompanied with some oblique ogles, which bid you not despair in time.
If I leave Richmond Hill, however, had I not better buy in town, that you may have a resting-place there ? Dear little gampy; tell me a great deal about him, or I shall not value your letters. Indeed, I will return them unopened. Is not that good Irish? Mr. Law has arrived. Miss Wheeler is also at Washington, and A. B. at New-York-tant mieux. Would you think it?
Never had he been so piqued for years, and as he floundered about trying to find some common ground where he and she might be at ease, he was conscious throughout of her mocking indifferent eyes, which seemed to be saying to him all the time, 'You are not interesting no, not a bit! You are tiresome, and I see through you, but I must talk to you, I suppose, faute de mieux.
"I did not bid you here," Alison said. "Lache," says Mr. O'Connor with a shrug. "En effet," says McBean and sat down. "Observe, Waverton: I have given you the chance to take a clean death. You have not the courage for it. Tant mieux. You may now hang." Mr. Waverton again made a move for the door, but Mr. O'Connor stood solidly in the way. "Attention, Waverton.
There may have been more than mere caprice in it. His eye met his friend's significantly. 'I suppose so, said Flaxman quietly. Not even for Robert's benefit was he going to reveal any details of that scene on High Fell 'Never mind, old fellow, I am content. And, indeed, faute de mieux, I should be content with anything that brought me nearer to her, were it but by the thousandth of an inch.
'Tant mieux, I hate them, said the captain. 'I wonder how my sister is this morning. 'Would you like a messenger? I'll send down with pleasure to enquire. 'Thank you, no; I'll walk down and see her. And Lake yawned at the window, and then took his hat and stick and sauntered toward Gylingden.