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Updated: May 29, 2025
It is impossible to tell you all the little exquisite instances of kindness and attention we have received from this excellent family. The respect, affection, and admiration with which, a propos to everything great and small, they remember my father and mother, is most touching and gratifying. Yesterday morning we had been talking of Mrs.
And a propos of money, it is that which will make our planet uninhabitable in the near future, for it will be impossible to live here, even for the rich, without looking after one's property; one will have to spend several hours a day fussing over one's INCOME. Charming! I continue to fuss over my novel, and I shall go to Paris when I reach the end of my chapter, towards the middle of next month.
No one hears me, I hope," said Lucy Stewart, as she turned round with a smile, which indicated, moreover, that her uneasiness on the subject was not extreme. "No, no," said Mary, "the king is engaged in his summer-house with the Duke of Buckingham." "Oh! a propos of the duke, Mary, it seems he has shown you great attention since his return from France; how is your own heart in that direction?"
"Whatever you do, don't trust one living soul in that place! The unlikeliest person may prove to be up to the neck in the business." "Or only up to the ankles, yet they may give you away to some one else," added my cousin. "And a propos of ankles," said my uncle, who was a confirmed bachelor, "Beware of women most of all! Never trust a secret to a woman, Roger never!"
I hope some part, at least, of the conversation is in German. 'A propos': tell me do you speak that language correctly, and do you write it with ease?
This adventure, patriarchal in its simplicity, came admirably a propos to the unconfessed poverty of the family; the Baron, while praising his daughter for her candor, explained to her that she must now leave matters to the discretion of her parents.
"And the a propos of all this?" asked Garstin "You are beginning to see the morphia maniac, the drunkard, the cocaine fiend, the prostitute, the " "Blackmailer?" "Yes, the blackmailer, if you like, in everyone you meet. You live in a sort of bad dream, Dick. You paint in a bad dream. If you go on like this you will lose all sense of the true values."
A quartet for the Indian Dutchman, that true benefactor of man, will soon be finished. A propos, Herr told me that he had written to you by the last post. Addio! I was lately obliged to direct the opera with some violins at Wendling's, Schweitzer being unwell. Mannheim, Dec. 20, 1777.
The delicacy of the humour, the allusion, the a propos all these are lost to a foreigner. But it is different with respect to tragedy, this treating only of exalted passions and heroical follies, which the antiquated errors of fable or history have made sacred.
"I had neglected all precautions, and you do right to be angry. À propos, Mr. Romaine, how did you come yourself, and how long have you been in the house?" I added, surprised, on the retrospect, not to have heard him arrive. "I drove up in a chaise and pair," he returned. "Any one might have heard me.
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