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Updated: May 20, 2025
Gowan and Carmel, going into the sitting-room one day, found her discussing her former idol with a group of her chums. "Do you call her pretty? Well, now, I don't!" she was saying emphatically. "She may have been pretty once, but now she's getting decidedly passée. I can't say I admire faded sentimental people!" "Sentimental?" said Truie. "I shouldn't call her sentimental at all.
Feather-headed idiot that she had been! Inconsiderate wretch! How, in Heaven's name, after reminding the man of the perfidy of that underbred passée little person with the passion for French novels and sulphonal tabloids, who had thrown the Doctor over, years before, in favour of his brother the Dragoon how could she have charged him with being a victim to the charms of another young woman?
Moreover, beautiful as she had been, for doubtless she was /passee/ now, and charming as of course she remained I do not think I ever knew anyone who was quite so charming there was something about Lady Ragnall which alarmed me. She did not resemble any other woman. Of course no woman is ever quite like another, but in her case the separateness, if I may so call it, was very marked.
Society warns me to make a creditable match, upon penalty, if I decline, of being pointed out to the succeeding and a fast-succeeding generation it is! as a disappointed old maid passée belle, who squandered her capital of fascinations, and has become a pauper upon public toleration, while my mother, sisters, and brothers are growing impatient at my many and profitless flirtations, and anxious to see me 'settled. My mother's pet text, since I was sixteen, has been her prayerful desire that I, the last of her nestlings, should make choice of a tenable bough and helpful partner, and set up a separate establishment before she dies.
When she does fade she will be even more passée than most." "But women know so many arts nowadays," said Anne drily. "And she would be the last to ignore them." "Ah! no doubt she will hang on till she gets a husband. I never knew anyone to want one so badly." "Lady Mary?" asked Hunsdon wonderingly. "I had long since grown to look upon her as a confirmed old maid." "La! La! my lord!"
Some day you'll be faded and passée, and people will giggle and say you haven't 'got off' in spite of all your efforts, and they wonder how old you really are, and they remember when you came out, and you can't be a chicken, and they don't like to see 'mutton dressed like lamb, and all the rest of the kind pleasant things that people of your type find to say. I know!
An individual or a class, concentrating their efforts upon their own well-being exclusively, do but beget troubles both for others and for themselves also. No individual life can be truly prosperous, passed, as Obermann says, in the midst of men who suffer; passée au milieu des générations qui souffrent. To the noble soul, it cannot be happy; to the ignoble, it cannot be secure.
When decidedly passée, she saves him a donkey in carrying wood and charcoal and grass to market, often bent nearly double under a load which she cannot lift, which has to be bound on her back. Her feet are bare, but her sturdy legs are at times encased in leather to ward off the wayside thorns.
"Ma poussee s'est fort bien passee!" Indeed says this entertaining tract, sans poussee, one would not be able to hold, at table or in the salon, with a neighbor of either sex, the least conversation. Further, it is by grace a la poussee that one arrives at those intimacies which are the characteristics of the baths.
"Because you, still a young man, with all your life before you, deliberately propose to tie yourself up to a middle-aged and passee woman she is extremely passee by daylight, let me tell you who has already treated you like a dog, and is burdened with a couple of children, and who, if she marries again, will bring you very little except her luxurious tastes. But I expected this.
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