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Updated: May 14, 2025
There was something smouldering under those airs of lassitude. She exasperated me by the provocation of her nonchalance, by something elusive and defiant in her very form which I wanted to seize. I said roughly: "Why? Don't you think I should tell you the truth?" Her eyes glided my way for a sidelong look, and she murmured, moving only her full, pouting lips: "I think you would not dare."
The former, with his habitual sang froid, was whispering to Moriarity, who, somewhat excited, was calmed by his companion's nonchalance, and as the hour for the work drew near became like him. A stealthy step, noiseless as an Indian's, interrupted the conversation, and the faint rap on the door gave them the long-looked-for signal.
The women merely peep from the shadows, while the men lazily loll beneath the trees along the roadside, curious beneath their nonchalance. Women bearing water to their homes, in huge brass jars.
"You may have heard this before," says he, "but it is so good that it will bear repetition." He tries to disguise his poverty of thought in a masquerade of ornate language. If he must repeat his words, he adds a little emphasis, a flourishing gesture, or a spirit of nonchalance. Again, there is the tenacious talker, who refuses to release you though you concede his arguments.
He is a babbler who would have destroyed this harmony of NONCHALANCE which I am enjoying thoroughly; at intervals a little painting, billiards, and walking, that is more than is necessary to fill up the days. There is not even the distraction of neighbours and friends from the environs; in this part of the country everyone remains at home and occupies him self with his oxen and his land.
Yet it was not a kindness of indifference or nonchalance, as in the epicurean face of a La Fontaine; it was a loving kindness, intelligent with regard to itself and others, which inspired gratitude and the outpouring of the heart, and defied a person not to love him.
And I owe one to Winthorpe for having unwittingly opened my eyes to my condition. But earning money? I've a notion it's difficult. What could I do?" "Have you no profession?" she asked. "Not the ghost of one," said he, with nonchalance. "But is there no profession that appeals to you for which you feel that you might have a taste?" Her dark eyes were very earnest.
"Good heavens, man," he cried, "you have been in the wars. Did those scoundrels attack you, then? Are you hurt?" "No," said Dick, sinking into a chair, and trying to speak with his customary nonchalance, "I am not injured just a wee bit tired that is all." Irene flew to his side. She took the soiled gun-barrels, from his relaxing grip, and began to unfasten the collar hooks of his uniform.
And meanwhile we must all wear an air of the utmost nonchalance and unconcern; for if we were to manifest any symptoms of excitement or interest in their movements, there are, no doubt, some among them who would be astute enough to observe it, and thereupon to become suspicious.
The dashing style in which this hereditary song of the French camp was given by "Colonel Alexandre Jules Cæsar" of the "brave battalion of the Marais," his capitally awkward imitation of the soldier of the old régime, and his superb affectation of military nonchalance, were so admirable, that his song excited actual raptures of applause.
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