causerie

If you read Notes on a Cellar Book, as you should, you will agree that it is a charmingly light-hearted causerie for a gentleman to publish at the age of seventy-five.

He speaks without notes; for, indeed, such a causerie spins itself, like a sailor's yarn, though out of finer materials.

As for the exquisite little causerie it remains to us safe and secure, veritable treasure-trove of unsullied gold against the years that the locust hath eaten.

He had lived much in Paris, where he studied impressionism and perfected his natural talent for causerie, and his inborn preference for the hedonistic view of life.

This could no longer--it was impossible--be the mere inspiration of the moment, and only a harmless causerie.