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With Jules Romains, Scriabine would have cried to his audiences: "Tu vas mourir tantot, sous le poids de tes heures: Les hommes, delies, glisseront par les portes, Les ongles de la nuit t'arracheront la chair. Qu'importe!
"Going already?" said Müller, encountering us on the landing, with a roll in one hand and a Bologna sausage in the other. "Already! Why, my dear fellow, it is nearly seven o'clock!" "Qu'importe? Come up to the supper-room and have some breakfast!" "Not for the world!" "Well, chacun
A detective testifies that he went with her into a tenement house on Seventeenth Street west of Sixth Avenue. Charge: Violation of the Tenement House Law. "Qu'importe," says the woman. "I go in ze street. I am arrested. I stay in ze house. I am arrested. I take ze room. I am arrested. Chantage Blackmail. C'est pour rire." Who are these women who are brought in a crowd together?
"But now, do you know, it was only because I just said that I was going out with Lord George that Mr. Mountague made all this rout." "Den let him make his rout; qu'importe? Miladi votre chere mere make no objections. Quelle impertinence! If he was milord duc he could not give himself no more airs. Va, man enfant Dis a lover!
No scheme is too wild or lunatic for them, provided they themselves are in the limelight. . . . And as for the others qu'importe? . . . Self is their God; the ill-digested, half-understood schemes of great thinkers their food; talk their recreation. And they play overtime. . . . He opened the smoking-room door and stepped out on to the deck.
"'Quand la rime enfin se trouve au bout des vers, Qu'importe que le reste y soit mis des travers." "Helas" said the Viscount D'A t, an author of no small celebrity himself; "I agree with you we shall never again see a Voltaire or a Rousseau." "There is but little justice in those complaints, often as they are made," replied Vincent.
Roads, piers, were being made; regiment after regiment were leaving the shores of India, some already marching across the Abyssinian Alps to rescue or avenge. It seemed too delightful to be true: we could hardly credit it. Ere long all must be over! Liberty or death! Anything was better than continued slavery. Theodore was coming qu'importe?
Qu'importe?" cried Rodier, after a few moments. "On peut le faire!" He hastened to Smith, drew him aside, and spoke rapidly to him for a few moments. The look of doubt that first came to Smith's face was soon replaced by a look of confidence. He engaged in a hurried colloquy with his man, at the close of which they shook hands heartily and went to the fence to lend a hand there.
There is, I grant you, more reason to fear for Hare. Boothby assures me that as yet no prejudice has been done to his fortune. I have my doubts of that, but am clear that he runs constant risk of being very uneasy. But there is no talking to him; he has imbibed so much of Charles's ton of qu'importe, que cela peut mener a l'hopital.
"But, without prudery, may not there be dignity of manners?" said the old lady, gravely. "Dignite! Oh, I don't say noting against dignite, neider; not but I tink de English reserve is de trop. I tink a lady of a certain rank has always good principes enough, to be sure, and as to the rest qu'importe? dat's my notions." Mr.
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