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I easily tire of Paris, and long to fly to the fields and woods andseashore of my province. ' We passed to the language of conversation. 'There are three words, ' said Tocqueville, 'which you have lost, andwhich I wonder how you do without, --Monsieur, Madame, and Mademoiselle. You are forced always to substitute the name. They are so mixed in allour forms that half of what we say would appear abrupt or blunt withoutthem. 'Then the _tutoyer_ is a _nuance_ that you want. When husband and wifeare... talking together they pass insensibly, twenty times perhaps in anhour, from the _vous_ to the _tu_. When matters of business or of seriousdiscussion are introduced, indeed whenever the affections are notconcerned, it is _vous_. With the least _soupçon_ of tenderness the _tu_returns. ' 'Yet, ' I said, 'you never use the _tu_ before a third person. ' 'Never, ' he answered, 'in good company. Among the _bourgeoisie_ always. It is odd that an aristocratic form, so easily learned, should not havebeen adopted by all who pretend to be gentry.
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