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Updated: May 17, 2025
"Belike the raison of that is because it's as plinty as anythin' else wid thim," said Thady, cynically, "or maybe a trifle plintier." "Sure we was on'y brats thim times," said Judy, apologetically. "For anythin' we could tell we might as well be streelin' about under the width of the sky like a string of wild duck, as stoppin' at home wid a roof over our misfort'nit heads. Ould Mrs.
"Vous avez raison," they responded, laughing and showing quantities of white teeth. Then they followed up their compliment by begging that mademoiselle would sit down, and allow her health to be drunk with that of the other ladies. "Yes, sit down by me," said Number One, indicating a chair. "This is the Queen's throne." "By me," said Number Two. "I'll cut up your meat for you."
The raison d'etre of that mango tree lies without doubt in the chalice of nectar, called "mango fool," with which Domingo appeases me when he guesses that his enormities have gone beyond the limits even of my endurance; but I see that thirty-seven candidates for the place of the chupprassee who went on leave yesterday have encamped under its shade, that they may watch for my face in the verandah.
"So intent are the Westerns on this drama, so wrapped up in the actors, so anxious to declaim and strut, that they forget to what end the play exists: they have left the spectators out for whom alone the scenes are enacted, and who, though apparently so silent and motionless, are the raison d'être of the whole performance.
The raison d'être is always to be found in the established rules of etiquette; and probably the most exacting and seemingly unnecessary of formalities has its foundation in some good common sense principle not far removed in spirit from "the rule golden." In short, manners and morals are twin shoots from the same root.
At this moment his brother Michael came to them, and said "Bryan Bryan" but he could proceed no farther. "Whisht, Michael," said the other; "this is a shame; instead of supportin' and cheer-in' my father, you're only doing him harm. I tell you all that you'll find there's no raison for this great grief. Be a man, Michael "
Ain't it the brightest, prettiest place? I says to him. And he stood there lookin', and he says to me: 'No, Katy, that is a graveyard. Now what in the name of raison was the man meanin' by that?" Linda stared at the hearth motto reflectively. "A graveyard!" she repeated. "Well, if anything could come farther from a graveyard than that spot, I don't know how it would do it.
Reilly," she replied, "from what I heard this day I can make a party good guess at the raison why you are here now, instead of bein' in your own comfortable house. You have bitther enemies; but God blessed be his name is stronger than any of them. However, I wish you'd let me get you and that poor man something to eat."
It is not so with us artists; they could not bamboozle us in this way. Your strain is an old story; it is taken from the 'Mariage de raison', first act, second scene."
Does he not also see that it destroys the raison d'être of the Christian missionary, and would reduce the whole world to a state of what Nietzsche called Chinaism and profound mediocrity?
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