Crossword-Solution: BLEUS 5 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Rezanov had met Madame de Stael and other bas bleus, and given them no more of his society than politeness demanded, but although astonished at the amount of information this young girl had assimilated, he found nothing in her manner of wearing her intellectual crown to offend his fastidious taste.

Believe me when I say that nothing stranger has ever befallen me than to find out here on the lonely brink of a continent nearly twenty thousand versts from Europe, a girl of sixteen with the grand manner, and an intellect without the detestable idiosyncrasies of the fashionable bas bleus I have hitherto had the misfortune to encounter." She was tapping the table slowly with her fork, and he noted that her soft, childish mouth was set.

Will the crown reward you, say, When the fairy gold is fled? Daphne was a maid unwise-- Shun the laurel, seek the rose; Azure, lovely in the skies, Shines less gracious in the hose! Don't you think, dear Hopkins, that this allusion to _bas-bleus_, if not indelicate, is a little rococo, and out of date? Editors will think so, I fear.

Pirouette she was not to be discovered, and I made my retreat from the house in a very bitter spirit of animosity against the whole race of the Bas-Bleus.

Many a time have I heard him tell the story--how, in the autumn of the good year 1690, thirty-four great ships of the Bostonians came up from below, and landed an army of ventres bleus of New England on the flats of Beauport.