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Updated: June 2, 2025
Put John in his proper place as regards distances, shadow and environment, and survey him in the cool white light of common sense. Unless he is a poseur of uncommon skill, he will appear best thus.
He was not popular with men, who regarded him as rather theatrical and a poseur, but his music, a certain deference of manner, a more romantic quality than is to be generally found among American business men, gave him a great vogue with women, and he cultivated them, especially the older ones, and they made life very pleasant for him, introduced him to the right people, and gave him much good advice now and then.
"Something of a poseur, aren't you?" suggested Peter pleasantly. "What's your role to-night?" There followed a fractional pause. "That of a vagrant student of manners and customs," answered the colorless voice. "Therefore, to imitate your frankness, you interest me greatly." "Those who study manners," said Peter, "should learn them after a while.
"I rather thought I was being particularly British. When in doubt, take a drink. That is Richard all the world over, you know." She broke into a little mirthless laugh. "I shall begin to think that you are a poseur!" she exclaimed. He crossed the room towards her. "Perhaps I am, dear," he confessed. "I want you just to sit up and lose that unnatural look.
Rather, it was the stride of a poseur like nothing so much as that of the old-time tragedian, made famous by the Henry Irving school of actors. "An ancient 'ham' sure enough, just as the boys say," muttered the manager. The so-called hermit disappeared. The moving picture people were gathering for dinner.
Surely, if a poseur, he might have posed when bereavement touched him; he might have assumed a high philosophic calm. But no; he never bothered to; even though reproached for inconsistency.
He was a poet, a dreamer, a writer of elegant prose, an orator, an artist. And behind all these things there was a flame in the man, a perfect passion for justice, for seeing people in their right places, which had led him from the more flowery ways into the world of politics. His enemies called him a dilettante and a poseur. His friends were led into rhapsodies through sheer affection.
"You're unjust to yourself." "No, but I'm unjust to you I mean, I have been. I must tell you before we go on, because you're too kind, too generous. I'm blind about lots of things, but I do see that, now. I see how good you are. I used to think you were too good to be true that you must be a poseur.
The flaneur, the poseur if such he was no longer appeared. He came close to the jurymen, leaned his hands upon the back of a chair as it were, shut out the public, even the judge, from his circle of interest and talked in a conversational tone.
Dick in his way was an actor, a tragedian of sorts, but with an element of humor, cynicism and insight which saved him from being utterly ridiculous. Like most actors, he was a great poseur. Louis, full of middle-West business men and farmers! I would not mention this particular person save that for a time he, Peter and myself were most intimately associated.
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