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The unknown cause of sensation which Descartes calls the "je ne sais quoi dans les objets" or "choses telles qu'elles sont," and Kant the "Noumenon" or "Ding an sich," is represented by the musician; who, by touching the keys, converts the potentiality of the mechanism into actual sounds. A note so produced is the equivalent of a single experience.
It is difficult to understand, even for you and me; but for the audience at a fair, it would be meaningless." What is your name?" Quoi?" Ça ne s'écrit pas."
It is far. Il fait de la neige it is snowing when I draw near. I hear a great noise. I draw nearer still. I see the great moose bull, with his hind foot in the wolf trap. He also sees me. I raise a great shout. A quoi bon? What good is it? He comes for me. Voulez-vous? I say. So I fire my fusil gun at him. Still he comes, for now I remember I only had shot for partridge in that gun.
There are not many glimpses of this melancholy in the letters meant for the eye of his beloved trinité féminine, as he playfully called his wife and two daughters. 'A quoi bon vous attrister, he asked bravely, 'sans raison et sans profit? Occasionally he cannot help letting out to them how far his mind is removed from composure.
He regarded her attentively for a minute or two with his nice grey-green eyes and finally inquired in a tone of mild amusement: "What is it, sister mine? Has some one left us a fortune, or what? There's something odd about you to-night an air of je ne sais quoi!" with an expansive wave of his hand. "'I'm engaged to be married, sir, she said," remarked Ann demurely. "Engaged? Great Scott! Who to?"
"I was just going to ask you how in that respect you regard Madame de Vionnet." She looked at him a little. "What woman was EVER safe? She told me," she added and it was as if at the touch of the connexion "of your extraordinary meeting in the country. After that a quoi se fier?" "It was, as an accident, in all the possible or impossible chapter," Strether conceded, "amazing enough.
When I had had some drink I believed them. There were also the fools and the mad. Des exaltes quoi! When I was drunk I loved them. When I got more drink I was angry with the world. That was the best time. I found refuge from misery in rage. But one can't be always drunk n'est-ce pas, monsieur? And when I was sober I was afraid to break away. They would have stuck me like a pig."
So much for hesitating to appear before the heiress in his shirt- sleeves, cried Richard, winking at Monsieur Le Quoi, who returned the wink with one eye, while he rolled the other, with an expression of sympathy, toward the young lady. Well, well, to me he seemed anything but a gentleman. I must say, however, for the lad, that he draws a good trigger, and has a true aim.
The master walked about it seriously; then he smiled. "It is already not so bad," said he, in that funny English of which he was so proud; "no, already not so bad." "Hé! quoi?" cried he, relapsing into French. "Qu'est-ce que vous me chantez l
What brought Josephte to the Le Brun dell? Et quoi! She was weeping. Those little children saw not her silent tears. Chrysler beheld them crystalline drops on pale, soft cheek, emblems of pure heart and secret sorrow; but she checked them when he drew near and sat up composed. "Mademoiselle," he said, "What is it troubles thee so profoundly? Tell me; I am an old man and thy friend."
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