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Updated: May 9, 2025
"We separate at the end of the hall, and when the columns line up again, you dance with your vis-a-vis." "My who-tee-who?" asked Nance. "Vis-a-vis fellow opposite. Come ahead!" Down the long hall swung the gay procession, while the floor vibrated to the rhythm of the prancing feet. The columns marched and countermarched and fell into two long lines facing each other.
"That is my name,..." said the vis-a-vis,, overcome with embarrassment. "Then you don't know it? And yet I have been a professor at one of the Russian universities for thirty-five years,... a member of the Academy of Sciences,... have published more than one work...." The first-class passenger and the vis-a-vis looked at each other and burst out laughing.
One little anecdote of him at this period will illustrate the quiet love of mischief with which he was imbued. A dissenting minister who happened to be his vis-a-vis, and who had annoyed him by making several impertinent remarks, suddenly asked him, with a sneer, how many years he had been there. "Seven," returned Tom, in a solemn tone, without deigning a glance at his companion.
The tables were set for two; each of us found ourselves placed vis-a-vis with one of our hosts, and each table had five other stalwarts nearby, unobtrusively watching. We had plenty of time to get tired of those women! The breakfast was not profuse, but sufficient in amount and excellent in quality.
She was watching the fingers twitch across the eternal, mechanical, monotonous clock-face of time. She never really lived, she only watched. Indeed, she was like a little, twelve-hour clock, vis-a-vis with the enormous clock of eternity there she was, like Dignity and Impudence, or Impudence and Dignity. The picture pleased her.
It stood vis-a-vis to a tin plate whereon lay three large steaming cuts of boiled fresh salmon fresh, because, although caught some months before, it had been frozen solid ever since.
All the libertine graces of his youth reappeared; he seemed to have the wealth of three hundred thousand francs of debt, while his vis-a-vis waited before the door. He was grand, like Berthier on the retreat from Moscow, issuing orders to an army that existed no longer. "Monsieur le chevalier," replied Suzanne, drolly, "seems to me I needn't tell you anything; you've only to look."
Here and there, on the soft, green sward, was presented that vegetable antithesis, a circlet of martinet poplars standing vis-a-vis to a clump of willows whose long hair threw quivering, fringy shadows when the slanting rays of dying sunlight burnished the white and purple petals nestling among the clover tufts.
"Jim's fit to fight for his life at the present moment," said Harrison. "But we'll both come down to Crawley to-morrow. So good night, Sir Charles." "Good night, Roddy," said Jim. "You'll come down to Crawley and see me at my training quarters, will you not?" And I heartily promised that I would. "You must be more careful, nephew," said my uncle, as we rattled home in his model vis-a-vis.
Would the animal permit me to load it? I resolved to make the attempt. Still leaving my eyes to fulfil their office, I felt for my flask and pistol, and finding both ready, I commenced loading. I proceeded with silence and caution, for I knew that these animals could see in the dark, and that in this respect my vis-a-vis had the advantage of me.
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