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You mean that it wasn't a mistake, a bêtise?" "Felix culpa! If it was a mistake it was a very fine one." "Ah! I don't regret it," said Rainham, "only " "Only it was a mistake to suppose that life was to be arranged. That was all I meant. Yes; I don't believe in much, but I believe in necessity.
"I have prepared him to find you beautiful as you are." "You say lovely things about me behind my back, then?" she laughed. "Now he will be disappointed!" "Yes, I admit it was a bêtíse but, being my real thoughts, they slipped out when I was there to-day. You will have to be extra charming to substantiate them." Before Mrs. Cricklander went to bed, she called Arabella Clinker into her room.
Ford had heard a flippant young Frenchman speak of him as an "ancien curé, qui a fait quelque bêtise"; and indeed there was about him that stamp of the ecclesiastic which is sometimes ineffaceable. "I call myself Durand," he said to Ford, using the conveniently ambiguous French idiom, "je m'appelle Durand."
"I knew he wasn't hurt," she said, "because I would have felt it, and because he had my luck piece." Then she stepped out of one of the windows, called Bêtise to her, and putting her arms about his neck, kissed him. When the New York papers came things were even better, for they recorded the end of the strike.
"But that sense of negation, of theoretic insecurity, which was in the air, conspiring with what was of like tendency in himself, made of Lord UFFORD a central type of disillusion. . . . He had been amiable because the general betise of humanity did not in his opinion greatly matter, after all; and in reading these 'SATIRES' it is well-nigh painful to witness the blind and naked forces of nature and circumstance surprising him in the uncontrollable movements of his own so carefully guarded heart."
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