"You must take down a book, so that, in case the curious remark us, our tête-à-tête may not be regarded as conspiracy.

"You must take down a book, so that, in case the curious remark us, our tête-à-tête may not be regarded as conspiracy.

So he wasn't at all surprised when, one evening, quite early after dinner, she contrived another tête-à-tête, and with good conversational generalship led their talk presently into a channel of amiable personalities.

So he wasn't at all surprised when, one evening, quite early after dinner, she contrived another tête-à-tête, and with good conversational generalship led their talk presently into a channel of amiable personalities.

When he published his History of the Kingdom of Naples, a friend congratulating him on its success, said:'Mon ami, vous vous êtes mis une couronne sur la tête, mais une couronne d'épines.'

Sir Edward next disappeared, then Jane, then Grace then Marian; until John began to think a tête-à-tête with Mr. Benfield was to be his morning's amusement.

Sir Edward next disappeared, then Jane, then Grace then Marian; until John began to think a tête-à-tête with Mr. Benfield was to be his morning's amusement.

In either event, this befell: About the middle of the evening Prince Victor happened to look up from an interesting tête-à-tête in the brilliant drawing-room with his handsome and liberal-minded hostess opportunely to espy Nogam staring at him from the remote recesses of the entrance hall.

In either event, this befell: About the middle of the evening Prince Victor happened to look up from an interesting tête-à-tête in the brilliant drawing-room with his handsome and liberal-minded hostess opportunely to espy Nogam staring at him from the remote recesses of the entrance hall.

She dined tête-à-tête with Mary, except on those rare occasions when there were visitorsthe Vicar and his wife, or some wandering star from other worlds.

She dined tête-à-tête with Mary, except on those rare occasions when there were visitorsthe Vicar and his wife, or some wandering star from other worlds.

Next evening they were dining at Cannes, with the blue sea in front of their windows, dining at a table all abloom with orange flowers, tea roses, mignonette, waxen camellias, and pale Parma violets, while Lady Maulevrier and Mary dined tête-à-tête at Fellside, with the feathery snow flakes falling outside, and the world whitening all around them.

Next evening they were dining at Cannes, with the blue sea in front of their windows, dining at a table all abloom with orange flowers, tea roses, mignonette, waxen camellias, and pale Parma violets, while Lady Maulevrier and Mary dined tête-à-tête at Fellside, with the feathery snow flakes falling outside, and the world whitening all around them.

Tête-à-Tête XXXVIII.

Tête-à-Tête XXXVIII.

What? silly fool, you cast the modesty of your young wife and the virginity of your daughter as food for that envious celibate, you leave them alone in the mysterious tête-à-tête of the confessional, with no obstacle between his burning lust and the object of that lost, between those mouths which speak so low!

What? silly fool, you cast the modesty of your young wife and the virginity of your daughter as food for that envious celibate, you leave them alone in the mysterious tête-à-tête of the confessional, with no obstacle between his burning lust and the object of that lost, between those mouths which speak so low!

But no opportunity occurred that day for a tête-a-tête with Mrs Null.

But no opportunity occurred that day for a tête-a-tête with Mrs Null.

In company, even in a tête-à-tête, Mr. Wordsworth is often silent, indolent, and reserved.

In company, even in a tête-à-tête, Mr. Wordsworth is often silent, indolent, and reserved.

La Fleur had seen the couple standing together on the little hill, but she had thought it a pity to disturb their tête-à-tête.

La Fleur had seen the couple standing together on the little hill, but she had thought it a pity to disturb their tête-à-tête.

On the other hand, he was even more delightful in a tête-à-tête.

Occasionally, and more often in tête-à-tête, he went ahead and talked copiously, but this was rather the exception than the rule.