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Updated: May 10, 2025
A person familiar with the masterpieces of Europe, but insensitive to that which makes them masterpieces, will be utterly non-plussed by a novel manifestation of the mysterious "that." It is well that old masters should be respected; it were better that vital art should be welcome.
"Please does Mademoiselle Le-le-, the French lady, live here?" she asked, finding some difficulty in pronouncing the long French name. "Yes, m'amzelle. M'amzelle Leperier lives here." Poppy was a little non-plussed. She had not thought out any plan or reason to give for her visit, nor how she was to reach the presence of Esther's new friend, but her usual ready frankness stood her in good stead.
For a moment I stood looking round upon the ring of clean-cut, eager faces, tongue-tied and somewhat non-plussed; but seeing with what unaffected and hearty good will they greeted me, nor heeded my disfiguring attire, I made my bow and plunged into a full and particular relation of Jessamy Todd's encounter with the man Tom.
"Mademoiselle," he began, then had to laugh himself, and said: "You're a case! You're a case!" The fellow's behavior made Maya impatient. "Why do you laugh?" she asked in a not altogether friendly tone. "You can't be serious expecting me to lay eggs, especially out here on the grass." There was a snap. "Hoppety-hop," said the grasshopper, and was gone. Maya was utterly non-plussed.
We came very near expressing interest, sometimes even admiration it was very hard to keep from it. We succeeded though. Nobody else ever did, in the Vatican museums. The guide was bewildered non-plussed. He walked his legs off, nearly, hunting up extraordinary things, and exhausted all his ingenuity on us, but it was a failure; we never showed any interest in any thing.
"Quite so, but the book she wished was lying on the top of this casket," replied McIntyre, meeting their level looks with one equally steadfast. "I know because I left the book there." Ferguson glanced from McIntyre to Kent and back again at the Colonel in non-plussed silence. The explanation was pat. "I'd like to talk with Mrs. Brewster," he remarked dryly. "Certainly."
"Is that any of your business, Miss Pickett?" "No, of course not. But then " "Well?" Miss Pickett was non-plussed, but only for an instant.
"I met him just now and tried to make him look at the new Guernseys, and he must have been disturbed quite a good deal when he's cross as a bear to me. He really oughtn't to be upset like that, Mr. Vane, when he comes up here to rest. I am afraid that you are rather a terrible person, although you look so nice. Won't you tell me what you did to him?" Austen was non-plussed.
When she disappeared into a sheltered hollow, the wind, hushed and non-plussed for a minute, paused to meditate further mischief; then, with regathered rage, it tore across country, and boomed, with sullen roar, into a valley shut in by brackened and heather-covered hills.
And if they asked her whether she would submit to the Church militant, answered, that she would now answer no more than this. Here again the argument strayed back to the futile subject of dress, always at hand to be taken up again, one would say, when the judges were non-plussed.
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