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Updated: June 12, 2025
L'on s'accoutume difficilement a une vie qui se passe sur l'escalier." "It is very true," said Clarendon, "we cannot defend ourselves. We are a very sensible, thinking, brave, sagacious, generous, industrious, noble- minded people; but it must be confessed, that we are terrible bores to ourselves and all the rest of the world. Lady Paulet, if you are going so soon, honour me by accepting my arm."
The Italian staircase grew into a magnificent affair, "L'escalier d'honneur," and often led only to the open galleries and salons de parade of the next floor. I think the finest staircases in all the world are in the Genoese palaces. The grand staircase of the Renaissance may still be seen in many fine Italian palaces, notably in the Bargello in Florence.
What ought he to have SAID? He prayed, as he followed the victorious young woman downstairs, that l'esprit de l'escalier might befall him. Alas, it did not. "By the way," she said, when he had shown her where Balliol lay, "have you told anybody that you aren't dying just for me?" "No," he answered, "I have preferred not to."
"I think I must go now now," he said. "Then I shall go to bed," she said, and kissing him went away slowly step by step up the stairs. Staircases are apt to suggest reflections, and there are various ways of rendering the French phrase "esprit de l'escalier."
This is the reverse of what I heard a French gentleman term l'esprit de l'escalier. Thanks to this fairy godmother of mine, the instant some one annoys or angers me there rises on the tip of my tongue the most galling rejoinder that can possibly be made in the circumstances. And I need not add: I make it. To-night, when Rupert flung his scoff at me, I was ready for him.
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