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Updated: May 20, 2025
She might have arrived at that age at which one intends to stop for the next ten years, but even a Frenchman would not have called her passee, that is, for a widow. For a spinster it would have been different. Looking round her with a glass, which Mrs. Pompley was in the habit of declaring that "Mrs.
"And Rossini," I asked, "how did he take her illness?" "Oh, three years after his Venetian infatuation, he was off here in Naples, worshipping the Spanish beauty, a little passee to be sure, of La Colbrand. She, however, possessed more lasting attractions than mere physical ones. She had amassed a large fortune in a variety of ways.
"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.
He had a comfortable income outside his pay, and when he was wedded, at the end of her fourth season in society, to a prominent, if just a trifle passée belle, people thought him a more than lucky man, until the regiment was sent to Arizona and he to Sandy.
But our duchess here is rather old-fashioned, very lofty of head and expression. She has a look of floating from peak to peak, and although passée is still a beauty. To be honest, she is hideously dull, but as good a creature as ever lived, and all that the ideal duchess should be so high-minded that she has never suspected the larkiest of her friends." "Well, I am glad she looks the rôle.
Saton stood watching it with darkening face. There was some pity in his heart for this somewhat passée young person, who had been kind to him during those first few weeks of his re-entering into life. He recognised the fact that his swift progress was unfortunate for her.
She would never have come to him and laid in his the slight hand whose touch thrilled him to such piercing agony of yearning for the little more that would have meant so much so much.... Ah, yes! he was even grateful to Mildred. She had not worn well. She had grown thin and passée, and nervous and hysterical.
Miss Josephine, her eldest, was handsome, patronizing, passée, and a sentimental fool; Miss Adelaide, who came next, was handsome, eccentric, malicious, and sly; and Miss Madeline, the youngest, was handsome, distinguished-looking, intellectual, passionate, and proud. Mrs.
Standing far in front of this sweet and wholesome idealization is la femme passée of to-day the reality as we meet with it at balls and fêtes and afternoon at homes, ever foremost in the mad chase after pleasure, for which alone she seems to think she has been sent into the world.
One of them was telling about the newest scandal in the divorce line: The president of one of our largest trust companies had been discovered to have been leading a double life running an apartment on the West Side for a haggard and passée showgirl. "You just tell me I'd like to know why a fellow like that makes such a damned fool of himself! Salary of fifty thousand dollars a year!
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