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His tall, sinewy figure; his long, dense, blond hair, with its heavy queue hanging on the shoulders of his red coat; a certain daring, martial insouciance of manner, sufficiently individualized him to the far-sighted Cherokees, and the white flag in his hand a token which they understood, although they did not always respect it intimated that developments of moment in the conduct of the siege impended.
It was rather like giving a crumb to one who demanded bread; but after all, she told herself, she had not known the writer, and many people have no aptitude for expressing their feelings on paper; and although the woman's letters were not particularly affectionate and showed a want of deep feeling, still, there was a certain insouciance, a gaiety about them which was far from unpleasing.
For many critics have been misled by Byron's denunciation of Castlereagh, just as others have spoken lightly of the stubborn conservatism of Wellington, or the easy and half-cynical insouciance of the author of the Anti-Jacobin. As a matter of fact, Castlereagh was by no means an opponent of the principles of the Holy Alliance.
Picker strode to the centre of the stage and, by a simple expedient strangely unthought-of before by merely pulling away the bucket, separated Gypsy from the candy. Then he turned to Missy and eyed her disapprovingly. "I think you'd better be taking the back cut home. If I was your mamma, I'd give you a good spanking and put you to bed." Spanking! Oh, shades of insouciance and swagger!
To the natural insouciance of his aristocratic bringing up, he had added the steely reserve of a man moving in the large world, engaged more often than not in some hazardous enterprise.
But Bertie, who was close to the door and heard the call, required no further bidding, but walked in with a perfectly unconcerned and cheerful air. It was this peculiar insouciance which angered Dr Stanhope, even more than his son's extravagance. 'Well, sir, said the doctor. 'And how did you get home, sir, with your fair companion? said Bertie. 'I suppose she is not up-stairs, Charlotte?
Bless you, sir! you may let me alone for bamboozling of anybody." The Corporal laughed again, as he began to unharness himself. There was in him a certain mingling of insouciance and melancholy, each of which alternately predominated; the former his by nature, the latter born of circumstances. "If you can outwit our friends the Zephyrs you have reached a height of diplomacy indeed!
"What do I care?" he answered with an oath. "He must shoe his own cattle!" Then, with a poor show of hiding his spite under a cloak of insouciance, he addressed the Colonel. "The mare is yours," he said. "You've won her. Much good may she do you!" And he turned on his heel and went out of the armoury.
Now that he had come I felt for an instant as if I would not open the door. But of course that was only a momentary weakness. I answered his ring with, I fear, rather a hypocritical air of insouciance, as though I had happened to find myself in the hall, and did not care to trouble the maid to ascend the stairs. "Dr. Stark Munro?" he asked.
It is not very often that it falls to my humble lot to startle Lady Mickleham out of her composure. But at this point she sat up quite straight in her chair; her cheek flushed, and her eyelids ceased to droop in indolent insouciance. "Mrs. Hilary!" she said. "What has Mrs. Hilary ? "I really thought you understood," said I, "the object of my experiment." Dolly glanced at me.
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