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His white tie and hat of sober silk are in respectable contrast with his air of fatuousness the Marquis of Steyne en route; the doddering hero of Mansfield in A Parisian Romance, or Baron Hulot. The alert expression of the girls, who appear to be loitering, tells us more at a glance than a chapter of Flaubert, Zola, or De Maupassant.
He was short and stout and florid, with an impertinent-looking moustache, and hair that was very smooth and oily save for two tight curls, which looked like the horns of a young goat, on each side of the centre parting. I hated him cordially, and had to control my feelings not to show him the contempt which I felt for his fatuousness and his air of self-complacency.
It was a mean thing for you to do to me, Jim, for I loved you then, and would have been fool enough to run off with you if you'd told me all, and not left me to find out that you had lost MY money every cent Cutler had left me in the business with the rest." With the fatuousness of a weak man cornered, he clung to unimportant details.
The mere possession titillates; and although the contents may be most exemplary to the eye, the mind is apt to go hay-making between the lines and no offense intended. All the fatuousness that had led me astray to the lure of her blue eyes, upon the train and in hollow Benton, surged anew now perhaps seasoned to present taste by my peppery defiance of Daniel.
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