refusing-to-be-pathetic

Updated: May 1, 2025

To make a pathetic appeal to Helen, dwelling upon his love, his doubts, his torturing jealousy, was one thing; quite another to tell that hopelessly humorous, refusing-to-be-pathetic story of those ridiculous bas bleus they dangled everywhere from every point of his story; flying, pirouetting, circling and pin-wheeling in a psychic pas seul!

Various - Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905