We need not follow the scene in the sentimental turning which it then

takes, whereby it comes about, of course, that Bernard, not Leopold,
marries Mile
We need not follow the scene in the sentimental turning which it then
takes, whereby it comes about, of course, that Bernard, not Leopold,
marries Mile. Letellier. The point is that Augier has justified Sarcey"s
confidence by making the scene thoroughly and specifically dramatic; in
other words, by charging it with emotion, and working up the tension to
a very high pitch. And Sarcey was no doubt right in holding that this
was what the whole audience instinctively expected, and that they would
have been more or less consciously disappointed had the author baulked
their expectation.

Trembling with indignation, Maynard suddenly collapsed like a punctured

balloon and relapsed dejectedly into his recumbent attitude
Trembling with indignation, Maynard suddenly collapsed like a punctured
balloon and relapsed dejectedly into his recumbent attitude. "What an
ass I have been!" he lamented sorrowfully. "What a sublime ass! And
Marian--the little devil!"

"Dinna worry yersel"s," said the man from the North

"Dinna worry yersel"s," said the man from the North. "I"m rare an" lucky
that it"s to be ma richt leg an" no the left, for that richt shank o"
mine was aye a wee thing crookit at the knee, and didna dae credit tae
the airchitecture o" tither ane."