Crossword-Solution: DOUX 4 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

She was too clever to overdo her part, and made no further allusions to the supposed _billet doux_, which had caused Sir Andrew Ffoulkes such an agonising five minutes.

And so his lip quivered as he sang:-- “Petit Rocher de la Haute Montagne, Je vien finir ici cette campagne! Ah! doux échos, entendez mes soupirs; En languissant je vais bientôt mouir!” We had need of gayety after that, and so Bill Cowan sang “Billy of the Wild Wood,” and Terence McCann wailed an Irish jig, stamping the water out of the spongy ground amidst storms of mirth.

Here is a specimen." The verses began: "Femme ou demon, ange ou sylphide, Oh! par pitie, fuis, laisse-moi! Doux miel d'amour n'est que poison perfide, Mon coeur a trop souffert, il dort, eloigne-toi.

Ply her close, and by and by clap a _billet doux_ into her hand; for a woman never thinks a man truly in love with her, till he has been fool enough to think of her out of her sight, and to lose so much time as to write to her.

The air upon Banstead-Downs is nothing to it for a whetter; yet I never see it, but the spirit of famine appears to me, sometimes like a decayed porter, worn out with pimping, and carrying _billet doux_ and songs: not like other porters, for hire, but for the jests’ sake.