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Updated: May 13, 2025
"I find it difficult to prefer any of my little kittens." "I see you are blasee on compliments; there is really nothing new that one can say." "I assure you, madame, that I am very sensible to the form which you give to yours." The viscountess, anxious not to seem to neglect the marquise, remarked, looking at Beatrix with a meaning air,
And he found more delight in telling the earnest and hungry-minded country girl about the great world of men and the great world of books than in talking to Janet, who was, in the matter of knowledge, a little blasée, if I may be allowed the expression. And then, to Huldah he could talk of his mother, whom he had often watched moving about that same kitchen.
"You are not blasee you are one of the happy mortals who keep the faculty of enjoyment as strongly all through life as in childhood." "Yes, I think I can enjoy," said Erica. "But I suppose we pay for our extra faculty of enjoyment. "You mean by being more sensitive to pain?" "Yes, though that sounds rather like Dickens's Mrs.
"I am not disappointed," replied Maggie. "It is all I expected and more. I am not blasée like Etta. Every thing interests me." "We were discussing Petersburg when you came in," said Steinmetz, drawing forward a chair. "The princess does not like it. She complains of nerves." "Nerves!" exclaimed Maggie, turning to her cousin. "I did not suspect you of having them." Etta smiled, a little wearily.
Allen buying a whole wheelbarrow-load of golden-looking doughnuts, brought by a woman of the village close by, I wondered with some apprehension if she were meaning to reward us for our excessive virtue. But they were an impromptu treat for the soldiers standing in the yard some already lined up to march and the way they disappeared down those brown throats made me feel blasée and over-civilized.
To begin with, she is never blasée; and, thank goodness, it is not yet considered in America "good form" to appear blasé, even if one is not. Being full of interest and constantly au courant with events, she is always companionable, and is able to talk intelligently of many things.
I was very indignant, and told him so, and said, "Est-ce que tous les poetes sont fous a cette heure de la soiree?" "Vous voyez," he retorted, "you are not only blasee; you are sarcastic." I enjoyed my dinner immensely in spite of being blasee, and Gautier's fun and amusing talk lasted until we were back in the salon. The Emperor approached us while we were still laughing, and began to talk to us.
'It is very pretty, but it was a nicer Christmas-tree last year at Lady Runnymede's, said Louisa, with the air of a critic. 'There we had coloured lamps. 'Little fastidious puss! said Louis, 'I thought you keeping in the background out of politeness; but I see you are only blasee with Christmas-trees. I pity you!
She loved to go out without an escort, to take walks, to visit the shops, to go to the little theatres, to make country parties. She was like a bird in a gilded cage, which often escapes and returns with pleasure only because it has escaped. She was neither worn out nor blasee; everything interested her, everything made her gay; she saw only the good side of things.
She recalled the slip of paper announcing a prize-fight, and wondered at her stupidity; for she had heard something of the resources of blasée women ere this. Finally she fell asleep. She was awakened by a sharp earthquake grim herald of the coming year!
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