All 3 Uses of
nonchalant
in
The Scarlet Pimpernel
- "And now, Sir Andrew," said Marguerite Blakeney, with the pretty nonchalance peculiar to herself, and with the most winning of smiles, "will you venture to excite the jealousy of your fair lady by asking me to dance the minuet?"†
Chpt 12nonchalance = calmness and lack of concern
- He looked her straight in the eyes, with that lazy nonchalance which had become second nature to him.†
Chpt 16 *
- And now that she looked back upon the last few months of misunderstandings and of loneliness, she realised that she had never ceased to love him; that deep down in her heart she had always vaguely felt that his foolish inanities, his empty laugh, his lazy nonchalance were nothing but a mask; that the real man, strong, passionate, wilful, was there still—the man she had loved, whose intensity had fascinated her, whose personality attracted her, since she always felt that behind his apparently slow wits there was a certain something, which he kept hidden from all the world, and most especially from her.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
calm in manner -- appearing unconcerned