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The same single bed with its muslin hangings, the same little bureau, with its pretty toilet-set, now somewhat faded and passee in style, but showing what it had been, and in a corner the big doll with all its paraphernalia around it.
She laughed very softly a dear, familiar sound it was to him. He turned his head to watch the curve of the lips that he loved, the faint contraction of her eyebrows as the smile spread. "You dear man!" she murmured. "To look at you makes me feel quite passée." "The Daily Telegraph should reassure you," he answered.
He looks like the hero of a sensation novel, or a modern melodrama, or one of Lord Byron's poems. Does he dance, and will he ask me, I wonder?" Yes, the dusky hero of the night did dance, and did ask Miss Blanche Oleander. A tall, gray-eyed, imperious sort of beauty, this Miss Blanche, seven-and-twenty years of age, and frightfully passée, more youthful belles said. Mr.
And the toy-makers are not even content with this grand personage, four feet high, who says "Papa! Mamma!" She is passee already; they have begun to improve on her! An electrician described to me the other day a superb new altruistic doll, fitted to the needs of the present decade. Give brother little piece!" Think of having a gilded dummy like that given you to amuse yourself with!
I never cared two straws for the daughter of Earl Carteret; she is frightfully passée, and she's three years older than I am. I am glad I did not commit myself to please my mother." Sir Everard reached Hunsden Hall in time for luncheon. The old place looked deserted and ruined.
At Corfu he dined with commissioners, generals, and at messes; and records meeting Lord Byron's 'Maid of Athens, 'who is now rather passee, but certainly has remains of a fine face and a bad figure; large feet, of course, that all the Greeks have, he writes. There are accounts of other diversions, including a week's shooting with a Mr.
"Strange now, that the majority ahem of my beauties and favourites through life have been called Mary. There is my own Mary un peu passee certainly but deil mean her, for half a dozen lit" "Now, Tom Cringle, don't bother with your sentimentality, but get along, do." "Well, I will get along but have patience, you Hottentot Venus you Lord Nugent, you. So once more we make sail."
Every thing belonging to my toilette is to be changed, for I have discovered "tell it not in Gath" that my hats, bonnets, robes, mantles, and pelisses, are totally passée de mode, and what the modistes of Italy declared to be la dernière mode de Paris is so old as to be forgotten here.
It was naturally supposed that the Englishman who was silently listening to this conversation must of course, as the natural enemy of France, approve of all that had been said. Prince Metternich turned at last to his guest, and said, "Et vous, my Lord, que pensez vous de Napoleon?" "Je pense," replied Lord Dudley, "qu'il a rendu la gloire passee douteuse, et la renommee future impossible."
Ah! you cannot judge of her quite, she is passee, broken, and aged, and, poor thing! is querulous at feeling the loss of her past powers; but there used to be a brilliance and piquancy in her conversation that has become something very different now. Violet thought it most prudent only to remark on Lady Martindale's varied accomplishments. 'She has carried them on much longer than usual.
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