adieus

It’s worth remembering that among the unwelcome adieus, there are new beginnings, too.

Compressed into the very lowest vacant corner were these words—“I had not a spare moment on Tuesday, as you know, for Miss Woodhouse’s beautiful little friend. Pray make my excuses and adieus to her.”

Still, such exhibitionist adieus only add to the burgeoning mystique of this former chorister and self-styled "low-key brainiac".

We exchanged adieus in Spanish, and that is the last I saw of Joaquin and his associate murderers.”

He heard his wife's adieus, and he telegraphed an eternal farewell.