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Bessie Kraker had insisted, with the nonchalant shrillness of eighteen, that Una "had ought to wear more color"; and Una had found, in the fashion section of a woman's magazine, the suggestion for exactly the thing "a modest, attractive frock of brown, with smart touches of orange" and economical.

I cannot explain this. Across the hall in front of me I saw Earl Dexter passing out of the Museum. I followed him through into Kingsway and thence to Fleet Street. He sauntered easily along, a nonchalant gray figure. I had begun to think that he was bound for his hotel and that I was wasting my time when he turned sharply into quiet Salisbury Square; it was almost deserted.

But here they were literally unable to reach the works; the fatal rifle-bullet drew a line at which bravery and cowardice, nonchalant veterans and trembling boys, were equalized in the dust. By John Ratcliffe Chapman, C. E. New York: D. Appleton &. Co. 1848. Rifle-Practice. By Lieut.-Col. John Jacob, C. B., of the Bombay Artillery. London: Smith, Elder, & Co. 1857. The Rifle; and how to use it.

"I'll GET him! And, when I get him, I'll wring a confession from him if I have to swing for it!" The car swept from Broadway into Astor Place, on down the Bowery, and presently stopped. Jimmie Dale stepped out. "I shall not want you any more, Benson," he said. "You may return home." Jimmie Dale started down the block a nonchalant Jimmie Dale now, if anything, bored a little.

They had taken one such plunge together; they both preferred to avoid another, if they could, and yet better to flounder through the ice than to keep away from it entirely. Therefore Olive's tone was nonchalant, as she reported, "I met her in the street, the day after you came home, and she begged me to tell you "

"How do, aunt? Lucy, fair coz, I hope I see you in a state of perfect salubrity?" was his nonchalant greeting. Mrs Walford replied that "she was as well as could be expected," she did not say under what adverse circumstances and Lucy requested him not to make himself ridiculous.

His eyes fastened on the graceful girl opposite him, who was trying to offset her blushes by a direct and nonchalant gaze. The rose on her breast seemed to be scorching her cheeks. She knew that her mother was exulting in the lucky inspiration which had made her set it there. "How good of you to come and cheer us!" exclaimed Mrs. Evringham. "Do take off your coat and stay for a cosy hour.

It was even whispered in corners that there would soon be murder among us, that Stavrogin was not the man to put up with such an insult, and that he would kill Shatov, but with the secrecy of a Corsican vendetta. People liked this idea, but the majority of our young people listened with contempt, and with an air of the most nonchalant indifference, which was, of course, assumed.

The manner in which young Jones spoke told the whole story of his feelings. Yet Pell tried to appear nonchalant and casual. "You haven't another drink around, have you?" he inquired. He still held his handkerchief to his wounded forehead. "That was a rather nasty one I got, you know."

In short, every one engaged in the conflict bore some token of its severity. I did not wait for the thunder-storm I foresaw: I rose with a nonchalant yaw n of ennui marched out of the apartment, called a servant demanded my own room repaired to it, and immersed the internal faculties of my head in Mignet's History of the Revolution, while Bedos busied himself in its outward embellishment.