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"No; go on, I beg you; and do not fancy that I am not interested and amused too, because my laughing muscles are a little stiff from want of use. Perhaps, too, I am apt to take things too much au grand sérieux; but I could not help thinking, while you were speaking, how sad it was that people were utterly ignorant of matters so vitally necessary to health."
"What in the world are you thinking of so hard?" asked Newman. "A subject that requires hard thinking to do it justice," said Valentin. "My immeasurable idiocy." "What is the matter now?" "The matter now is that I am a man again, and no more a fool than usual. But I came within an inch of taking that girl au serieux."
"Hush!" replied Cottrell, drily; "the companion of her delinquency, remember, is Jim." "Why, you surely don't mean to tell me " exclaimed Lady Mary. "Very much so," rejoined Cottrell; "and the sooner you make up your mind to take it au serieux the better." Poor Lady Mary! Mr. Cottrell's dramatic disclosures were getting a little too much for her.
D'Argenson in the same year declared a revolution inevitable, and with a curious precision of anticipation assured himself that if once the necessity arose of convoking the States-General, they would not assemble in vain: qu'on y prenne, garde! ils seraient fort sérieux!
"When people come chez moi, it is not to cut a figure in the world; I have never had that illusion," I remember hearing her say; "and when you pay seven francs a day, tout compris, it comprises everything but the right to look down upon the others. But there are people who, the less they pay, the more they take themselves au serieux.
Oh! how much Molly wished that she would go. 'Perhaps, after all, said Cynthia, after a pause of apparent meditation, 'we shall never be married. 'Why do you say that? said Molly, almost bitterly. 'You have nothing to make you think so. I wonder how you can bear to think you won't, even for a moment. 'Oh! said Cynthia; 'you must not go and take me au grand serieux.
There was something very funny to his hearer in this old man's love of children, and his professional engagements of former years, looked at together. Aunt M'riar took the subject au serieux. "Now you're talking silly, Mo," she said. "If the children never grew, where would the girls be? And a nice complainin' you men would make then!"
Do not let "An Earnest Clergyman" take things too much au serieux. He seems to be contented where he is; let him take the word of one who is old enough to be his father, that if he has a talent for conscientious scruples he will find plenty of scope for them in other professions as well as in the Church.
What a shame it was sending her away for a mistake, too, for they had got the saddle on the wrong horse. "Still," he thought, "it is a bore when girls take things au grand serieux. Lilla Tremaine is quite different, as jolly as possible, but never expects impossibilities. Now Cecil and Bluebell are never satisfied without one's swearing one cares for nobody else.
We should ask ourselves whether in spite of all its confidentialness Trilby makes an intimate revelation. The rare quality of intimacy, that is the greatest thing in the very greatest novels. The "boom" of Trilby, we are told, surprised du Maurier immensely, for he had not taken himself au sérieux as a novelist. Indeed it rather distressed him when he reflected that Thackeray never had a "boom."
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