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The figure of Parnell; the speech, nonchalant, terse, defiant, without a single grace of any kind, his hands in the pockets of his coat; and the tense silence of the crowded House, remain vividly with me. Afterward my uncle came up-stairs for me, and we descended toward Palace Yard through various side- passages.
The official results of the fourth were announced, and the bookmakers tacked up the entries for the last. Still, Brown seemed nonchalant. Checkers anxiously watched the posting of the odds. "Remorse, four to one," he exclaimed under his breath. Brown also glanced at the blackboards and lighted a fresh cigar. Every minute some one would buttonhole him, and ask, "How about Remorse?"
Jones, who abandoned his nonchalant immobility against the desk, and made a few steps calculated to put him between Heyst and the doorway. "It's awfully close," he remarked Heyst, in the middle of the room, had made up his mind to speak plainly. "We haven't met to talk about the weather. You favoured me earlier in the day with a rather cryptic phrase about yourself. 'I am he that is, you said.
Madame will probably start at half-past eight or nine, so that will give us plenty of time to see what M. Villiers is going to do. They both rose to their feet. Then Vandeloup put on his hat, and, going to the glass, arranged his tie in as cool and nonchalant a manner as if he had been merely planning the details for a picnic instead of a possible crime.
Sedately she prepared to leave, walking down the stairs slowly instead of rushing at them as she wished to do. She buttoned her little gloves, and set her hat straight, and made herself appear nonchalant. And that was how it happened that Gaga overtook her at the front door, and stood with her for a moment upon the doorstep. "Lovely day it is," Gaga said, agreeably. "You going to get away?"
'There is one thing, Langham said presently, in his slow nonchalant voice, when the tide of Robert's ardour ebbed for a moment, 'that doesn't seem to have touched you yet. But you will come to it. To my mind, it makes almost the chief interest of history. It is just this. History depends on testimony. What is the nature and the value of testimony at given times?
"I thought your calls were going to take till dinner, Myron," called Harrie, through the blinds. "I thought so too," said Myron, placidly, "but they do not seem to. Won't you come down?" Harrie thanked him, saying, in a pleasant nonchalant way, that she could not leave the baby.
I'll run 'er around a coupla times b'fore I start out and that's all I will do." Naturally the garage man was somewhat perturbed at this nonchalant manner of getting acquainted with a Ford. He knew the road from Lund to Pinnacle. He had driven it himself, with a conscious sigh of relief when he had safely negotiated the last hair-pin curve; and Bill was counted a good driver.
No attention being paid to the question, the nonchalant intruder went on: "What plunder are you loaded with? Salt or whiskey, or pork or butter, I reckon? Or maybe you carry passengers? Is it a family of emigrants? I see two chaps on the upper deck; who are they? What might your name be, captain?" The helmsman relieved his irritation by delivering a volley of oaths.
Nothing belonged to her, not even her heart, which was merchandise, a commodity of exchange, turned over to the highest bidder. "Royalty," he mused, "is a political slave-dealer; the slaves are those who wear the crowns." Once inside the palace, he became a man of the world, polished, nonchalant, handsome, and mildly curious.
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