At the same time, these works were all too English in tone to catch the taste of the parisian world, and Monsieur had seemed to put a restraint upon his pen, that rendered his works a touch too cold.
"To-morrow?"
Victoria Cross
I should have got on all right with parisian readers.
"To-morrow?"
Victoria Cross
In such a society as this parisian society of the years '87, '88, '89, '90, he must have been at a continual disadvantage; and at a disadvantage which he felt keenly, but which he felt, also, that any remarkable piece of Alfierism which would have moved Italy to admiration, such as glaring, or stalking off in silence, or punching a man's head, could only increase.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)