Now I have made so many, I quite forget the first: I am quite _blasee_ about the sea and all that." I could not help smiling.
"Why do you laugh at me ?" she inquired, with a frank testiness that pleased me better than her other talk.
"Because you are so young to be _blasee_ about anything." "I am seventeen" (a little piqued).
"You hardly look sixteen.

Do you like travelling alone ?" "Bah! I care nothing about it.

I have crossed the Channel ten times, alone; but then I take care never to be long alone: I always make friends." "You will scarcely make many friends this voyage, I think" (glancing at the Watson-group, who were now laughing and making a great deal of noise on deck).
"Not of those odious men and women," said she: "such people should be steerage passengers.

Are you going to school ?" "No." "Where are you going ?" "I have not the least idea--beyond, at least, the port of Boue-Marine." She stared, then carelessly ran on: "I am going to school.

Oh, the number of foreign schools I have been at in my life! And yet I am quite an ignoramus.