If that be true--and I do not think that any who know the Canadas will deny it--must it not be presumed that they will soon also desire a faineant minister in Downing Street?
Send us a faineant governor, a King Log, who will not presume to interfere with us; a governor who will spend his money and live like a gentleman, and care little or nothing for politics.
A faineant governor and the prestige of British power is now the political aspiration of the Canadians in general; and I think that this is understood in the States.
A race that is not to the swift, a prize that no merits enforce, But is won by some faineant youth, who shall simply walk over the course?
V THE IDEAL IN PERIL The Faineant Club was going to the devil, which was unnecessary, considering the state of the weather.
It was in the smoke-room of the Faineant Club that I heard its conclusion.
While a roi faineant may fulfil effectively all the essential duties of sovereignty, an autocrate faineant is an absurdity.
The Count de Faineant embraced me with more ardour than ever I was embraced by mortal man.
The Count de Faineantembraced me with more ardor than ever I was embraced by mortal man.
But, of course, I must make it easy for the Council to get rid of a faineant President, if they prefer that course.
So long as I am in the chair, I cannot be a faineant or refuse to do anything and everything incidental to the position.
