"Dans leurs regards indifférents flottait la quiétude de passions journellement assouvies" - "In their coolly glancing eyes lingered the calm of passions habitually appeased." (p.48)
This is a succinct depiction of that possibly indefinable air of success - whether it be in terms of wealth or love or a happy lofe -that some people carry, as opposed to the pent-up frustrations and disappointments of so much of the population.
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