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Updated: June 9, 2025
He is town-bred and Parisian, jusqu'au bout des ongles. How he admires you, and how I love him for it! Only in one thing he disappoints me there.
Davenant understood the chauffeur to say that "Madame la marquise l'avait modernisé jusqu'au bout des ongles." Having summoned up courage to ring the bell, he found it answered by a middle-aged woman with a face worn by time and weather to the polished grooves and creases to which water wears a rock. "On ne visite pas le château."
"Certainly not! How can you ask such a question, Cicely! I left my aunt on purpose to get rid of him once and for all. And he knows it; yet he has written to me every two days regularly since I came here!" "Helas! ce cher Roxmouth!" murmured Cicely, with a languid gesture imitative of the 'society manner' of Mrs. Fred Vancourt, "Parfait gentilhomme au bout des ongles!" Maryllia laughed.
She was an ingenious young woman, and the verbs I had to write as punishments were of the most elaborate and complicated nature Demander pardon pour Avoir Siffle comme un Gamin quelconque, Vouloir ne plus Oublier de Nettoyer mes Ongles, Essayer de ne pas tant Aimer les Poudings, are but a few examples of her achievements in this particular branch of discipline.
One coat of their own varnish goes over the smooth and the rough, the bitter and the sweet. Now Lucy, besides being singularly polite and kind, was femme jusqu' au bout des ongles. If her instincts had been reasons, and her vague thoughts could have been represented by anything so definite as words, the result might have appeared thus: "A few hours, and you can bore me no more, Mr. Talboys.
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