Crossword-Solution: INTIMES 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

There is neither excuse nor palliation to be offered for the Italian manners and the recognized system of amis intimes, which disgraced the French society the next century.

That is your English expression, isn't it? There are three actresses over there at that table with _amis intimes_; they are 'restin' now, and can cut about and dine out as much as they please.

You have noticed the breaks in the letters here and there, just as they seem to be on the point of growing a little--warmer? The critics, you may remember, praised the editor for his commendable delicacy and good taste (so rare in these days!) in omitting from the correspondence all personal allusions, all those _détails intimes_ which should be kept sacred from the public gaze.

Puis, comme si les dernières paroles qu'ils avaient échangées venaient d'éveiller dans ces deux hommes une source d'intimes souvenirs, chacun d'eux s'éloigna machinalement de l'autre, et s'en alla rêver en silence, l'un à la proue, l'autre au gouvernail.

Bland, the elegant medical cynic of _Nos Intimes_; De la Tour, the formidable, jealous husband of Henriette, in _Le Patte de Mouche_; Horace, in _The Country Squire_; Goldfinch, in which he was airy, sagacious, dashing, and superb, in _The Road to Ruin_; and Captain Cozzens, the nonchalant rascal of _The Knights of the Round Table_, which he embodied in a style of easy magnificence, gay, gallant, courageous, alert, imperturbable, and immensely comic.