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"Laura's is a contralto: and that voice is very often out, you know," Pen said, bitterly. "I have heard a great deal of music, in London," he continued. "I'm tired of those professional people they sing too loud or I have grown too old or too blase. One grows old very soon, in London, Miss Amory. And like all old fellows, I only care for the songs I heard in my youth." "I like English music best.
Still it doesn't matter; I have never been coward enough to hide my feelings. I'm in love, my dear baron, as madly in love as a young collegian sufficiently in love to watch my lady's house at night even when I have no possible hope of seeing her. I thought myself blase, I boasted of being invulnerable.
Yesterday we had soft, warm autumn weather, and I took a long walk in the Thiergarten, by the same solitary paths which we used to traverse together; I sat, too, on our bench near the swan-pond; the young swans which were then still in their eggs on the little island were now swimming vivaciously about, fat, gray, and blasé, among the dirty ducks, and the old ones sleepily laid their heads on their backs.
I recognized it from the bottle. It was elderberry wine that Metta's mother had put up. You have to be resourceful in a dry state. "I'm afraid you'll all think me frightfully Bohemian," said Metta proudly. Beryl Mae held her glass up to the light and said, "After all, does anything in life really matter?" She appeared very blase in all her desperate young beauty.
This girl was something more than a young, naive creature from the country, childishly keen to do everything and go everywhere at fever heat something more than the very epitome of triumphant youth as clean and sweet as apple blossoms, with whom to flirt and pose as being the blase man of the world, the Mr. Know-All of civilization, a wild flower in a hot house.
For the rest, the people were of the usual type one has got accustomed to in what is termed 'smart' society nowadays, listless, lazy, more or less hypocritical and malicious, apathetic and indifferent to most things and most persons, save and except those with whom unsavoury intrigues might or would be possible, sneering and salacious in conversation, bitter and carping of criticism, generally blase, and suffering from the incurable ennui of utter selfishness, the men concentrating their thoughts chiefly on racing, gaining, and Other Men's Wives, the women dividing all their stock of emotions between Bridge, Dress, and Other Women's Husbands.
You could say, 'Look here: don't marry Edith Darrell, Sir Victor; she isn't worthy of you or any good man. She is full of pride, vanity, ambition, selfishness, ill-temper, cynicism, and all uncharitableness. She is blase at nineteen think what she will be at nine-and-twenty.
The queen tendered her hand to Lord de Winter, who, kissing it respectfully, went out and traversed alone and unconducted those large, dark and deserted apartments, brushing away tears which, blase as he was by fifty years spent as a courtier, he could not withhold at the spectacle of royal distress so dignified, yet so intense. Uncle and Nephew.
Or perhaps, thinking the game hardly worth so much effort, he merely reaches out suddenly with one of his eight arms each of which is a long-drawn-out hand as well and grasps the victim and conveys it to his distensible maw without so much as changing his attitude. All this of the giant octopus brown and warty and wrinkled and blasé.
In due course, but not before Finn had become comparatively blasé as a traveller, and more than a little weary of the whole thing, the chains were put on again, and the hounds were led out from the train into the midst of a crowd of strange people.
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