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For I assure you the proper study of man is man, and the proper study of woman is both man and woman. Here comes the Parisian youth with his charming young mamma of forty. His face is pale and distingué, and the black down on his upper lip has been trained with infinite care.
It would be folly to call him distingue, but he is at least unobjectionable.
The clock was striking twelve as I walked down the village, for the story of Mulcahy always took an hour in the telling, and I went away not quite so downhearted as when the present was first made to me. "After all," thought I, "a diamond-pin is a handsome thing, and will give me a distingue air, though my clothes be never so shabby" and shabby they were without any doubt.
"Ah!" cried the journalist; "and that is the hero of Constantine! What a frank, open countenance, and what a distingué bearing and manner!" "You would not suppose all that man's life passed in a camp, would you?" "His career has, I understand, been remarkable," said Beauchamp. "Very.
His tall person was clad in a heavy overcoat, which seemed to combine comfort with elegance, and gave to him, even in his leaning posture, a distingue air. But that which drew Annie's attention was the difference of his manner from that of all others, who were either excited by their surroundings, or were turning wistfully and eagerly toward friends whom it might be long before they saw again.
There's Fluff, and there's her lover. He's rather old, isn't he? But hasn't he l'air distingué? Isn't Fluff pretty when she blushes? The lover is rather tall. Oh, do look, Mary, can you see can you see?" "Yes, he has fair hair," responded Mary. "It curls. I'm sorry it is fair and curly, for Fluff's is the same. He should be dark, like a Spaniard.
"Yes, darling, I'll tell you all about it. I never saw a moire this shade before. I don't care for them in general; but this is so distingue." Florence rewarded her with a kiss. "The house," said Rosa. "Oh, he has seen one in Portman Street, and one in Gloucester Place." "Oh, that will never do," cried Mrs. Cole. "It is no use being a physician in those out-of-the-way places.
She looked neither like a sylph, nor an oread, nor a fairy; she had neither l'air distingué nor l'air magnifique, but bore a great resemblance to a real mortal girl, such as you might pass a dozen of without any particular comment one of those appearances, which, though common as water, may, like that, be colored any way by the associations you connect with it.
A different treatment was accorded to Wendy, who came last. With ironical politeness Hook raised his hat to her, and, offering her his arm, escorted her to the spot where the others were being gagged. He did it with such an air, he was so frightfully distingué, that she was too fascinated to cry out. She was only a little girl.
I had owed the honour of this invitation to my intimacy with the s, the great friends of the duchesse, and I promised myself some pleasure in the engagement. There were but eight or nine persons present when I entered the royal chamber. The most distingue of these I recognized immediately as the . He came forward with much grace as I approached, and expressed his pleasure at seeing me.
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