" Etta glanced at Paul, who returned De Chauxville's bland gaze with all the imperturbability of a prince.

He was the very personification of punctiliousness and always displayed sublime imperturbability in exigencies of great moment.

She was on her own territory at this work, playing her own game; and she was more alarmed by De Chauxville's imperturbability than by any thing he had said.