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He never yet had thought of his daughter except as a mere child, and he did not mean for an instant to intimate that her growing interest in the young lieutenant was anything more than a "school-girl" fancy. She was old enough, however, to take his thoughtless speech au sérieux, and it hurt her. "Papa!" was her one, indignant word of remonstrance.
I was regularly invited to descend, even though baggageless, and to pass through the searching-room, making heroic protest as I did so that 'I had nothing to declare. It was easy to distinguish the two nations in their fashion of performing this function, the French taking it au sérieux, and going through it histrionically, as it were; the Belgian being more careless and good-natured.
He read De Vigny and other French poets of his generation, with an eye to their relations to the convulsed and struggling state of France, and because they were compelled by their surroundings to take life au sérieux, and to pursue, with all the resources of their art, something different from beauty in the abstract.
Dizzy écouta avec attention, mit son monocle, considéra Lord Odo, et dit enfin: "11 y a un argument sérieux dans ce que vous me dites l
"My dear fellow," said Scoutbush en grand sérieux, "after all that you have done for our people at Aberalva, I should be very much shocked if any of my family thought any service shown to you a trouble." "Pray do not speak so," said Frank, "I am fallen among angels, when I least expected." "Scoutbush as an angel!" shrieked Lucia, clapping her hands.
Evadne, like the Vicar of Wakefield, was by nature a lover of happy human faces, and she could be playful herself on occasion; but she had little if any of the saving sense of humor. Her habit was to take everything au grand serieux, and to consider it.
I am reminded of the day when, already with that air of seemly thought, le bel sérieux, he was found sketching, with so much truth to the inmost mind in them, those picturesque mountebanks at the Fair in the Grande Place; and I find, throughout his course of life, something of the essential melancholy of the comedian.
The Bulgarians, in short, are simple, and what the Rumanians would call "serieux" you must abandon all notion of finding here anything like the little comic-opera kingdoms invented by some of our novelists. It was in Bulgaria, as I recall it, that Mr.
'It is not to his company I object, but to his principles, he answered, in that earnest fashion of his which takes the lightest questions au grand serieux.
The bey, who, that morning, had leaned toward the French, now warmed to America. The French were enlightened, he said, but without morals, the English civilized but jealous; if he had any sons he would send them to America, the only place where young men were both civilized and properly "serieux."
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