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Updated: August 21, 2024
When Jérôme Lafirme died, his neighbors awaited the results of his sudden taking off with indolent watchfulness. It was a matter of unusual interest to them that a plantation of four thousand acres had been left unincumbered to the disposal of a handsome, inconsolable, childless Creole widow of thirty. A bêtise of some sort might safely be looked for.
Do you think he isn't with him?" asks Minnie, looking at her fixedly. "My dear girl! What a bêtise! No! Because you take such care to know what he is doing. And so he is now with Colonel Neilson?" "Yes," shortly. "I'm afraid I must go," says Sir Maurice; "if I don't catch those Wickses at this hour I shall never catch them at all." He nods to Minnie. For a second his eyes meet Marian's.
'Of course; but, mon cher Armine, what a fine day this is! What are you going to do with yourself? 'Nothing; I never do anything, said Ferdinand, in an almost mournful tone. 'A melancholy man! Quelle bêtise! I will cure you. I will be your friend and put you all right.
Ah! my good Massey, mon cher, mon brave, Anderson will let you have that horse. And what is doing here? Is there any fun? You will like him very much. We have been all dining at Bond's. 'A good dinner? 'Of course a good dinner. I should like to see a man who would give me a bad dinner: that would be a bêtise, to ask me to dine, and then give me a bad dinner.
He was a younger son and in the diplomatic service before he made his bêtise, but if he was alive now he would be over a hundred years old, so during that time the family has naturally branched off a good deal, and we can't be said to be very nearly related to them. The place was not entailed, and went with the female line into the Thornhirst family, who live there now.
While Madame must have planned the Brighton trip, she contrived that the suggestion should come timidly, deprecatingly, from Rust. She would have scorned so crude an advance, one, too, falling so far short of her high standard of womanly virtue, as a direct hint that she was willing to pass three days in a seaside hotel with a young man! Mais, non. Ce serait une bêtise incroyable!
Many, many times he lose patients that way. Quelle bêtise, voyons!" "He must have been practising pretty steadily now for some time," remarked Esther, "to have as good a practice as he seems to have." "Ah, yes, it is long now, for him, and I think he gets now what you English call fed-up. I believe he would like to throw it all up to-morrow, but he cannot.
But we must do them justice: they don't pretend anything. It's the barest, most simple-hearted, most shallow stupidity. C'est la betise dans son essence la plus pure, quelque chose comme un simple chimique. If it were expressed ever so little more cleverly, every one would see at once the poverty of this shallow stupidity.
"Bah!" cried the General, still more forcibly. "Bêtise!" "How?" asked the gentle son. "'Tis all nonsent!" cried the General, bursting into English. "Hall you 'ave to say is: ''Sieur Editeurs! I want you s'all give de nem of de indignan' scoundrel who meek some lies on you' paper about mon Père et ses amis!" "Ah-h!" said Dr. Mossy, in a tone of derision and anger.
You must take some bifteac. The most tender bifteac I ever tasted! This is a fine dinner. Encore un verre! Man, you may go; don't wait. 'By Jove, Mirabel, I never was so glad to see anybody in my life. Now, you are a friend; I feel quite in spirits. 'To be sure! always be in spirits. C'est une bêtise not to be in spirits. Everything is sure to go well.
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