"Affaire" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... rather strangely in the celebrated Betsy Canning case, as Balzac did in the 'Affaire Peytel'; but the story is too long for repetition in this place. The trials of Miss Canning and her supposed kidnappers are amongst the most amusing in the great collection of State Trials. See vol. xix. of the ...
— Hours in a Library - New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) • Leslie Stephen
... being one night at the opera, was told by a messenger that his mansion was on fire. "Eh bien," he said to the messenger, "adressez-vous ['a] Mme. la marquise qui est en face dans cette loge; car c'est affaire de m['e]nage."—Chapus, Dieppe ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 • E. Cobham Brewer
... relaxing the stern wrinkles of his brow, "c'est bien dit; you will make de apology to de dog. Sans doute, he is de principal, I am only de second. C'est une affaire arrangee. Moustache, viens ici Moustache" (the dog came up to his master). Monsieur est tres fache ...
— The King's Own • Captain Frederick Marryat
... 'Scenes' describing Political and Military Life. In the first group are five novels and stories: 'L'Envers de l'histoire contemporaine' (The Under Side of Contemporary History, a fine story, but rather social than political), 'Une Tenebreuse affaire' (A Shady Affair), 'Un Episode sous la Terreur,' 'Z. Marcas,' and 'Le Depute d'Arcis' (The Deputy of Arcis). Of these the 'Episode' is probably the most admirable, although 'Z. Marcas' has not a little strength. The 'Depute,' like 'Les Petits bourgeois,' was continued by M. Charles Rabou ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various
... belligerent, and if I am wounded I cannot attend to the spiritual affaire of the dying," said Father Mendez, ...
— Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships - A Story of the Last Naval War • W.H.G. Kingston
... me the idea that I had trouve le noeud de l'affaire; the second made me doubt this; the subsequent ones went ...
— Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The - Neighbouring Countries • William Griffith
... wilderness into their neater and cleaner intellectual abodes. [Footnote: I cannot forbear quoting as an illustration of the contrast between humanist and rationalist tempers of mind, in a sphere remote from philosophy, these remarks on the Dreyfus 'affaire,' written by one who assuredly had never heard of humanism or pragmatism. 'Autant que la Revolution, "l'Affaire" est desormais une de nos "origines." Si elle n'a pas fait ouvrir le gouffre, c'est elle du moins qui a rendu patent et visible le long travail souterrain ...
— The Meaning of Truth • William James
... The youngster dreamed himself into slavery, and I opine that he dreamed himself into jail. With the internal evidence of the story for guide, I herewith present, on behalf of Mrs. Potiphar, a revised and reasonable version of the affaire d'amour. ...
— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... befitting reverence, you may listen to whatever he may have to say, or if necessary, may yield yourself up to receive the castigation of any crimes which you may have committed, whether trivial or enormous. Tenez, compere," he added, in most villainous French, "voila mon affaire; voila ce que ...
— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow
... compare in the Scenes of Political Life (for instance, in Une Tenebreuse affaire) the curious differences subsisting between the criminal law of Brumaire in the year IV., and that of the Code Napoleon which has taken ...
— Scenes from a Courtesan's Life • Honore de Balzac
... of Paris which commented on the "affaire Derues," none showed more excitement than that of the Greve, and amongst all the surrounding streets none could boast more numerous crowds than the rue de la Mortellerie. Not that a secret instinct magnetised the crowd in the very place where the proof lay buried, but ...
— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... Poirot, dumfounded. "And I—who have both the keys in my pocket!" He flung himself upon the case. Suddenly he stiffened. "En voila une affaire! This lock has ...
— The Mysterious Affair at Styles • Agatha Christie
... eyes have noticed it too? But I, my son, am Gaston de Nerac, a vidame of Gascony, nom de Dieu! et il aura affaire a moi, ce pantin-la! Sacredieu! Do you know what he had the impertinence to ask me yesterday? What settlements I proposed to make on Madame de Verneuil. Settlements, mon petit Asticot! He spoke as trustee, whatever that may be, under her husband's will. 'Sir,' said I, 'I will settle my ...
— The Beloved Vagabond • William J. Locke
... and in one or two instances I openly boasted of my conquest, hoping thereby to arouse his father's displeasure against him also. But in that I reckoned wrong. He disinherited and disowned his son for having honorably married a woman whom he considered below him in station, but for an open affaire d'amour with that son's wife, he had not even a word ...
— That Mainwaring Affair • Maynard Barbour |
