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The facile side of a union with Miss Blanchard had never been present to his mind; it had struck him as a thing, in all ways, to be compassed with a great effort. He had half an hour's talk with her; a farewell talk, as it seemed to him a farewell not to a real illusion, but to the idea that for him, in that matter, there could ever be an acceptable pis-aller.
Not one who isn't." "Terrible thing, the modern woman," put in Argyle. "And then ?" "Then man seeks other forms of loves, always seeking the loving response, you know, of one gentler and tenderer than himself, who will wait till the man desires, and then will answer with full love. But it is all pis-aller, you know." "Not by any means, my boy," cried Argyle.
Instead of insinuating that I am accepting Roger as a pis-aller, it would be more seemly if you would congratulate me and wish me luck." "I do oh, I do, Nan. But, my dear " "No buts, please. Surely I know my own business best? I assure you, Roger and I will be a model couple an example, probably, to you and Ralph!
Protestantism had nothing to do with the imagination in fact, it was a question whether reasonable people had any; whether the devil was not the original maker of that troublesome faculty in man, woman, and child. Poetry itself was, with most parents, a dram, to be given, like Dalby's Carminative, as a pis-aller, when children could not possibly be kept quiet by Miss Edgeworth or Mrs. Mangnall.
It was a dismal prospect for the poor fellow to live upon the hope of being one day Mrs. Catherine's pis-aller. In the meantime she considered herself free as the wind, and permitted herself all the innocent gaieties which that "chartered libertine," a coquette, can take.
'I am sorry for poor Colonel Gardiner's death: he was once very kind to me. 'Why, then, be sorry for five minutes, and then be glad again; his chance to-day may be ours to-morrow. And what does it signify? the next best thing to victory is honourable death; but it is a PIS-ALLER, and one would rather a foe had it than one's self.
With this sound ringing in his ears, and daily becoming more and more insufferable from monotony and increase, the sheep-man rides out in the morning among his Mexicans, and returns to camp at night aweary, with haply a couple of little ones abandoned by their mothers in his arms, to be brought up on that pis-aller of infancy, and, alas! occasionally of age, the bottle.
Soon people forget what the man really wanted first; and after a successful and vigorous political life, he forgets it himself. The whole is an extravagant riot of second bests, a pandemonium of pis-aller. Now this sort of pliability does not merely prevent any heroic consistency, it also prevents any really practical compromise.
He did not at first promise amusement, but a rather malicious humour found much in him, owing to the circumstance that the poor fellow was acquainted with the negotiations touching the marriage first suggested for Victoria, and was fully aware that he himself was in his lady's eyes only a pis-aller.
Munich, in his case, was a pis-aller for Paris, where it would have been his preference to study when he definitely surrendered, as it were, to his symptoms. He went to Paris, but Paris seemed blocked and complicated, and Munich presented advantages which, if not greater, were at least easier to approach. Mr.
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