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She was a better souffre-douleur, was less of a restraint, and was besides his regular reader and amanuensis, so that as the force of the attack abated, he kept her a good deal in his room during the latter part of the day, imparting scraps of intelligence, skimming the papers for him, and reading his letters. There was a lease to be signed, and, as soon as might be, Mr.
It is only in the direction of la toilette," Madame von Marwitz smiled with a touch of roguishness, "only in the direction of la toilette that the taste is rather rudimentary as yet. I was very cross last night, hein?" "It was disappointing not to have pleased you," said Karen, smiling. "And I was cross. Louise has her souffre-douleur expression this morning to an exasperating degree."
Nekhludoff asked gloomily, recalling the words of the lawyer, that the governor would shift the responsibility. "I will see to it. I will make inquiries immediately." "So much the worse for her. C'est un souffre-douleur," came from the reception-room, the voice of a woman apparently entirely indifferent to what she was saying.
What should we do, where should we be, without our Satanic souffre-douleur our horned scapegoat, our black puppet, without whose suggestions we should never have erred, whose wooden head we bang when things go wrong with us," says Saxham bitterly.
The physiologists of the time of Moses if there were vivisectors other than priests in those days would probably have considered that other plague, of the frogs, as a fortunate opportunity for science, as this poor little beast has been the souffre-douleur of experimenters and schoolboys from time immemorial. But there is a form of criticism to which none will object.
The physiologists of the time of Moses if there were vivisectors other than priests in those days would probably have considered that other plague, of the frogs, as a fortunate opportunity for science, as this poor little beast has been the souffre-douleur of experimenters and schoolboys from time immemorial. But there is a form of criticism to which none will object.
He only pined for Bishopsworthy, and when we let him move there, after the first month, he and my uncle were happy. I stayed there for a little while, but I was only in the way, the dear good folks were always putting themselves out on my account; and as to Alick, you can't think how the absence of his poor 'souffre-douleur, invigorated him.
One of the most famous writers of the day discovered sitting on a settee beside a very illustrious Marquise, with whom he is on such terms of intimacy, as a man has a right to claim when a woman singles him out and keeps him at her side as a complacent souffre-douleur rather than a makeshift." "Well," says she, "have you found those letters of which you spoke yesterday?
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