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The disclaimer of the Major had, however, the effect of restoring to him the use of his tongue. Casting his uncertain eye on the gentlemanly person of the latter he exclaimed, in a tone of insufferable vulgarity; An ill suppressed titter pervaded the group of British officers the General alone preserving his serieux. "May I ask your name?" he demanded.
But one can't but be tempted to do so at moments. You take everything so terribly au grand sérieux, my young friend." "You mean to convey that I am ponderous?" "Well perhaps just a shade," she archly agreed. "And of ponderosity you must make an effort to cure yourself. Mind, though a fault, I consider it one on the right side in the connection, that is, which we have just now been discussing.
It was what most made him say to himself "Oh hang it, what does it matter?" when he reflected that an homme sérieux, as they said in Paris, rather gave himself away, as they said in America, by going every night to the same sordid stall at which all the world might stare.
Ah, you disapprove, I see. What a complicated world this would be if we could all wear masks! Your face used to be a safer one than it is now. Can it be that you are becoming serious un jeune homme serieux? Heaven save you from that!" "No; I have a headache; that is all," laughed Cornish. Mrs. Vansittart was slowly unbuttoning and rebuttoning her glove, deep in thought.
From time to time, with an air of casting fear behind him and dashing into the imminent, deadly breach, he would hazard an 'Ah, oui, or a 'Pas mal. For the rest, he played the piano prettily enough, wrote colourless, correct French verse, and was reputed to be an industrious if not a brilliant student what we called un sérieux.
It is evident that the advantages which indirect is supposed to have over direct election require this disposition of mind in the voter, and will only be realized by his taking the doctrine au serieux, that his sole business is to choose the choosers, not the member himself.
A circular procession of children, as well as adults, first promenaded round the princess, who danced with all her might in the centre, her countenance preserving the grand serieux.
But l'homme sérieux is not the only man for election times. I'll wager all I am ever likely to make out of politics that I have secured a vote this afternoon, though I have done nothing more than offer a farmer's wife a little artistic advice about the choice of a bonnet. I told her that yellow was fatal to that charming complexion, and advised blue.
'You must leave all your wet things to be dried. 'O! entre freres! 'En Angleterre, vous employez des sliding-seats, n'est-ce pas? 'We are all employed in commerce during the day; but in the evening, voyez-vous, nous sommes serieux. These were the words.
If Goethe's bad play of Stella had retained the close as he originally wrote it, with the bigamous Fernando in the last scene rejoicing over the devoted agreement of the two ladies and his daughter to live with him in happy unity, that would perhaps have been a comedy of the genre sérieux, with the duties of man gracefully adapted to circumstances.
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