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Quiet and unassuming he goes his way, minding his own business as carefully as we would mind it for him, with all the good will in the world, if only we could find out what it is. But we can't leave him alone.... Tracey Tanner interrupts my musings. "Hello!" he twangs, like a tuneless banjo. "'Lo, Tracey." This lofty and blase greeting can come from none other than Roland Barnette.
Both facts and philosophy are confined within an exceedingly narrow horizon, one in which the writer was most thoroughly at home, which explains why they bear the imprint of a mind already blase.
When alone in her room, Bertha's mind again reverted to Ben Fordyce. As she compared him with Humiston, he seemed handsomer and more boyishly frank than ever. What did Joe Moss mean by calling Mr. Humiston "blasé." She had seen that word in novels and it always meant something wicked. How could this weary, sick man be wicked? She pitied him and wished to help him.
At which the eyes of M. Godefroy, the freethinker, the hardened capitalist, and blasé man of the world, filled with tears. He rushed out of the house, but returned in a minute with his arms full of the superb mechanical horse, the box of leaden soldiers, and the rest of the costly playthings bought by him in the afternoon, and which had not even been taken out of the carriage.
'And 'oo was winning, sir? 'Well, Welch was leading, the last I saw of it. Shouldn't wonder if he won either. He was going all right. I say, the place seems absolutely deserted. Isn't anybody about? 'Just what Mr MacArthur was saying to me just this minute, sir. 'E went into the Pavilion. 'Good. I'll go and hunt for him. Biffen 'clicked' the blase horse into movement again.
Though at first the salt of Mark Twain's humour seemed to the French to be lacking in the Attic flavour, this new mode of comic entertainment, the leisurely exposition of the genially naive American, in time won its way with the blase Parisians.
As we approached the ancient city, all early recollections of the glowing text were revived; nor had months of constant travel rendered us so blasé but that an eager anticipation thrilled every nerve.
She has at least a dozen serious attacks before she is twenty, and at that ripe age, is often a little blasé. But the day soon comes when the pretty play is over and the soft eyes widen with fear. She passes the dividing line between childhood and womanhood when she first realises that her pastime and her dream have forged chains around her inmost soul.
He was pale, his eyes were swollen and red, his hair was disarranged, and in all respects he looked unlike his usual blase and immaculate self. His forehead was wet, showing that he had hurried on his way to the boarding house. The captain regarded him pityingly. "Set down, Stevie," he urged. "You're all het up and worn out." His nephew paid no attention. Instead he asked a question.
Given that every form of pleasure, of entertainment and of amusement is always within their reach, thanks to the loftiness of their station, their wealth, and facilitated furthermore by the anxiety of their courtiers both to please them and to retain their favor, they naturally soon become blasé to such an extent that they become a prey to ennui a thoroughly royal malady, from which few, if any, of the scions of the reigning houses of Europe are exempt.
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