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"They look very comfortable, and the lady picturesque," he answered affectedly, but his brows suddenly contracted and his eyes shot together, as they always did when angry.
The impressiveness of Vivian's manner produced a proper effect; and except that he spoke somewhat affectedly slow and ridiculously precise, Essper George delivered himself with great clearness. "You see, sir, you never let me know that you were going to leave, and so when I found that you did not come back, I made bold to speak to Mr.
"What! you do not know whether you have received a letter from your cousin?" continued Clemence, laughing affectedly. "Ah! Alphonse no, that is, yes; but it was a long time ago." "How cold and indifferent you are all of a sudden to this dear Alphonse!
"All wealth," says Sir Thomas More, "in former times was tangible. It consisted in land, money, or chattels, which were either of real or conventional value." Montesinos, as Mr. Southey somewhat affectedly calls himself, answers thus: "Jewels, for example, and pictures, as in Holland, where indeed at one time tulip bulbs answered the same purpose."
"You are Monsieur Wilkie!" interrupted Madame d'Argeles, in a tone of mingled irony and disdain. "Yes," he replied, drawling out the name affectedly, "I am M. Wilkie." "Did you desire to speak with me?" inquired Madame d'Argeles, dryly. "In fact yes. I should like " "Very well. I will listen to you, although your visit is most inopportune, for I have eighty guests or more in my drawing-room.
The girls and women sinking affectedly or plumping in matter-of-fact style down into their places, with languishing upward looks if they be young and in tune with the moon outside, with red faced jollity and much frankness of chatter if they were married and perhaps had a husband and children likewise disporting themselves, made long rows about the walls of the schoolhouse, looking for the world like orderly flocks of bright plumaged birds in their bravery of many hued calicos and ginghams; a gay display of bold reds and shy blues, of mellow yellows and soft pinks, with the fluttering of fans everywhere like little restless wings.
"Do not ask me," she said affectedly; "my nerves would never stand such a thing! And besides my dress!" "What made you wear it?" said Philly, who was a plain-spoken child, and given to questions. While John whispered to Dorry, "That's a real stupid girl. Let's go off somewhere and play by ourselves."
Aratov did not think about the approaching night, and was not afraid of it: he was sure he would pass an excellent night. The thought of Clara had sprung up within him from time to time; but he remembered at once how 'affectedly' she had killed herself, and turned away from it. This piece of 'bad taste' blocked out all other memories of her.
Lovel, "I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. Pray," most affectedly fixing his eyes upon a diamond ring on his little finger, "pray-what was the play to-night?" "Why, what the D-l," cried the Captain, "do you come to the play without knowing what it is?"
She resisted the stable for some time, but after carefully examining it with her hoofs, and an affectedly meek outstretching of her nose, she consented to recognize some oats in the feed-box without looking at them and was formally installed. All this while she had resolutely ignored my presence. As I stood watching her she suddenly stopped eating; the same reflective look came over her.
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