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Here are no coloured words, no fine phrases only the most flat and ordinary expressions 'un instrument admirable' 'une grande perfection' 'fort triste. Nothing is described; and yet how much is suggested! The whole scene is conjured up one does not know how; one's imagination is switched on to the right rails, as it were, by a look, by a gesture, and then left to run of itself.
She raised her head without rising, to look at the entering couple, and for a startled second Arlee had the half hysterical fear that this squatting soloist was the triste and aristocratic representative of the haut-monde of Moslem which the Captain had brought her to see, but the next instant another figure appeared in a doorway and came slowly toward them.
The result is that kind of insincerity and special pleading which has been the curse of Irish or Anglo-Irish literature. I write of a literature which has its natural centre in Dublin, not in Connemara; which looks eastward, not westward. Miss Edgeworth had a sound instinct for her art, disfigured though her later writings are by what Madame de Staêl called her triste utilité.
We shall leave that island on our starboard hand, and as we pass it we ought to see the island of Curazao in the distance, which island we, of course, leave on our port hand. Then we head into the Gulf of Triste, and so on to La Guayra.
Paris was very triste to poor Amy, with all her happy facility for amusing herself; and Katy felt that the sooner they got away from it the better it would be. So, in spite of the delight which her brief glimpses at the Louvre gave her, and the fun it was to go about with Mrs.
I shall travel back to Granada, muy triste, Senor, muy triste" The faithful fellows eyes were full of tears, and, as he lifted my hand twice to his lips, some warm drops fell upon it. God bless his honest heart; wherever he goes! And now a word as to travelling in Spain, which is not attended with half the difficulties and annoyances I had been led to expect.
It is German of which I am ignorant." The young lady, who immediately introduced herself as Mademoiselle Henriette, passed her arm through Selingman's. "We dine here all together, my friend, is it not so?" she begged. "He will not be in the way, and for myself, I am triste. You talk all the time to Mademoiselle l'Américaine, perhaps because she is the friend of some one in whom you are interested.
Generals McLaws and Anderson will remain with me, demonstrate against these people and divert their attention. When can you start?" "I will start at four, sir." Lee rose. "Very good! Then we had better try to get a little sleep. I see Tom spreading my blanket now. The Wilderness! General, do you remember, in Mexico, the Noche Triste trees and their great scarlet flowers?
With M. de Stael and Madame de Broglie Miss Edgeworth was particularly happy. It had been reported that Madame de Stael had said of Maria's writings "que Miss Edgeworth etait digne de l'enthousiasme, mais qu'elle s'est perdue dans la triste utilite." "Ma mere n'a jamais dit ca," Madame de Broglie indignantly declared, "elle etait incapable!"
Another surprise might be attempted by some lingering party of the savages; and, as it would be unsafe to go to sleep, the cibolero and his four companions remained awake and on the alert for the remainder of the night. That was a noche triste to Carlos a night of painful reflections.
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