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Updated: June 3, 2025
We might possibly have harangued in this desultory manner, to the present time, had not the amiable Chatterissa advanced, and, with the tact and delicacy which distinguish her sex, by placing her pretty patte on the mouth of the young nobleman, effectually checked his volubility.
"That dish of which your excellency has eaten with so much relish," rejoined the waiter, "is snale patte, a dish so rare and savory that it is all eaten up: but if your excellency will be patient we will have some more prepared expressly for him."
I ventured to say that I could now understand why it was that he passed for being so rich in England a coup de patte that turned the laugh against him. Mr. de is a perfect cynic, and piques himself on saying what he thinks, a habit more frequently adopted by those who think disagreeable, than agreeable things.
It was not unlike the entrance to any other provincial city in ordinary times, save that there were many red-trousered men mixed in with the other population. There were no chains across the road, but four soldiers in uniform mounted guard. We showed patte blanche and proceeded to ask for the Red Cross headquarters. "Madame Macherez is the president. You must go to her.
I doubt it not. Yet see how my Jesuit's system works. You know the St. Pierre?" "Partially." He laughed. "You say right 'partially'; whereas I know her thoroughly; there is the difference. She played before me the amiable; offered me patte de velours; caressed, flattered, fawned on me. Now, I am accessible to a woman's flattery accessible against my reason.
The poet Roy made an epigram about "cats" and "rats," in execrable taste, no doubt; this stung our Sylph to such an excess that he waited outside the Palais Royal and beat Roy with a stick when he came out. The poet was, perhaps, not much hurt; at all events, he had the presence of mind to retort, "Patte de velours, patte de velours, Minon-minet!"
As for the rest there is a marshy lagoon called the Patte d'Oie beside the farm of Gavrelle, which runs all the way north to the river, though in most places it only seems like a soft patch in the meadows. This the tanks had to cross to reach our line, and they never made it.
Masters, parsons, and landowners! having, at the risk of all popularity, just given a coup de patte to certain sages extremely the fashion at present, I am not going to let you off without an admonitory flea in the ear.
If you had heard them speak it in their pleasant droning accent, "Patrique Moullarque," you would have supposed that it was made in France. To have a guide with such a name as that was as good as being abroad. Even when they cut it short and called him "Patte," as they usually did, it had a very foreign sound.
Whichever side of the question we may assume, as the most popular, or the most right, the feelings of so large and respectable a minority are to be consulted, that it behooves the critic or reviewer to move cautiously, and, imitating the actions of a certain feline household reformer, to show only the patte de velours. The omniscient Burton seems to have reached the pith of the matter.
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