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Updated: June 9, 2025
"When you are a marchioness you may make penny buses a feature of the distinguished insouciance of your character if you like. I shouldn't myself, because they jolt and stop to pick up people, but you can, with originality and distinction, if it amuses you." "It doesn't," said Emily. "I hate them. I have longed to be able to take hansoms. Oh! how I have longed when I was tired."
"He shall back his indorsement!" laughed Alan Hawke. With a lordly insouciance, Major Alan Hawke then strolled out of the great bank and deliberately arranged his line of future action while he was taking his ease at his inn. "First, to pick up all the threads of this queer intrigue through Justine. I must go back to her at Geneva.
Is it not enough to make an ingrowing visage?" "How so?" said Katherine in feigned insouciance. "A surfeit of good, like a too-full cup, boils over and falls to ill." "Then, Janet, surfeit sin 'til it bubbles up, runs over, perhaps a better cup to fill." "Alack, alas, for youth's philosophy!" "At what art thou driving, nurse; thou canst neither affect Shakespeare nor the Bible!"
His habitual expression was a mixture of nonchalant good humour and gay insouciance, but the slightly aquiline, prominent nose and the set of the square aggressive jaw belied in a measure the humourous curl of the lips.
This old party was remarkably shy; the elder boy seemed a little frightened, and didn't relish being touched by a white man, but the youngest was quite at his ease, and came up to me with the audacity and insouciance of early youth, and pulled me about. When I patted him, he grinned like any other monkey.
They were drinking coffee in the blue salon, and most of the party had retired to the bridge tables laid out, and Tamara, who played too badly, sat by the fire with her godmother and another lady, when suddenly the door opened and, with an air of complete insouciance and assurance, Prince Milaslávski came in.
This polite speech discovered a streak in Indian nature that, properly cultivated, would fit the red man to shine as a courtier or politician. Red Shirt walked away with the insouciance of a king dismissing an audience, and some of the squaws came to display papooses to the Great White Lady. These children of nature were not the least awed by the honor done them.
To Magdalen Fay's present joy seemed like a bit of Venetian glass on the extreme edge of a cabinet at a child's elbow. It is difficult for those who have imagination to understand the insouciance which looks so like heartlessness of the unimaginative.
The same dashing insouciance that dictated the weekly article for his paper when in hospital with three broken ribs after being run down by a train was hardened and steeled in the sergeant who nightly tore his uniform into ribbons by crawling out through the barbed wire.
Such things as perching dizzily atop a horse's back, even cantering in graceful insouciance, seemed far, far away.
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