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'Qui est celui-ci? demanded the small female, impatiently. 'C'est mon ami le plus intime; so you were about to leave London, without telling me a word, said Francis Ardry, somewhat angrily. 'I intended to have written to you, said I: 'what a splendid mare that is. 'Is she not? said Francis Ardry, who was holding in the mare with difficulty; 'she cost a hundred guineas.
I dare say my visiting list, private and consular, comprised three hundred families; but we had our own little clique intime, which was quite charming, and included some sixty or seventy persons. En revanche, we had plenty of evening entertainments for both sexes. "Some curious little local customs still lingered at Trieste.
And what difference is there between this and the internal and mystical silence of Miguel de Molinos, the third and most perfect degree of which is the silence of thought? And what marvel is it that Amiel in his Journal Intime should twice have made use of the Spanish word nada, nothing, doubtless because he found none more expressive in any other language?
It is to be hoped that the friends to whom the charge of his memory has been specially committed may see their way in the future, if not to a formal biography, which is very likely better left unattempted, at least to a volume of Letters, which would complete the "Journal Intime," as Joubert's "Correspondence" completes the "Pensees."
He spoke in a tone of simple wonder, but Gabrielle shot a quick glance at him from under her veiled lashes as she replied: "Bah! What has that to do with it? I repeat: Monsieur Crewe, you men cannot understand the feelings of a lady like Madame Holymead in a matter like this. She and her husband were, as I have said before, intime with the great judge.
It was in the autumn of the year 1867, when the reign of the Liberator was in the fulness of its fame, that a certain scandal intime began, in St. Petersburg, to divide interest with the still engrossing topic of the freed serfs.
The virtuous Bruce-Errington left his saintly wife and me to talk little platitudes together, while he, decorously accompanied by his secretary, went down to pay court to Violet Vere. How stout she is getting! Why don't you men advise her to diet herself? I know you also went behind the scenes of course, you are an ami intime promising boy you are, to be sure!
The barrister, therefore, had an opportunity to display the other side of his engaging personality, his singular knowledge of the world, his acquaintance with the latest developments in literature and the arts, and so much of London's vie intime as was suited to the ears of polite society.
A courtier, such as Lord Rochford, who could play tennis, make verses, and become "intime" at the court of Francis I., could not hold his own in disputes of papal authority with highly educated ecclesiastics.
I will show her my pictures, and you shall talk to her of Huxley and of Herbert Spencer." Julian regarded Valentine rather doubtfully. "Are you malicious?" he said, with a hesitating note in his voice. "Malicious no!" "You won't chaff her?" "Chaff a lady who wears more feathers than ever 'growed on one ostrich, and who was the intime of the mysterious Marr? Julian, Julian!"
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