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"But when you said it when I heard you promise it to Mr. O'Shane " "Oh, mercy! Don't kill me with laughing!" said he, laughing affectedly: "Oh! that face of yours there is no standing it. You heard me promise and the accent on promise. Why, even women, now-a-days, don't lay such an emphasis on a promise." "That, I suppose, depends on who gives it." said Ormond.
Opposite to him sat the really clever, and affectedly pedantic Lord Vincent, one of those persons who have been "promising young men" all their lives; who are found till four o'clock in the afternoon in a dressing-gown, with a quarto before them; who go down into the country for six weeks every session, to cram an impromptu reply; and who always have a work in the press which is never to be published.
Never had her face seemed to him more noble and charming. She appeared to great advantage in the presence of Madame Belenitsine. That lady was incessantly fidgeting on her chair, working her narrow shoulders, laughing affectedly, and either all but closing her eyes or opening them unnaturally wide. Liza sat still, looked straight before her, and did not laugh at all.
The peculiar virtues of the German character, the native strength of the German intellect, were slighted, concealed, and as far as possible suppressed, while the artificial graces of an exotic refinement were affectedly displayed, and became the only pass into good society.
Ball said," Mrs. Ball was gushing affectedly to Anita, "I got an idea, that well, really, I didn't know what to think." Anita looked as if she were about to suffocate. Allie came to the rescue. "Not very complimentary to Mr. Blacklock, mother," said she, good-humoredly. Then to Anita, with a simple friendliness there was no resisting: "Wouldn't you like to come up to my room for a few minutes?"
Yet the language, although it has some elegance, is so affectedly formal, that all sense of reality is destroyed.
Don't use hair dye, hair oil or pomades. Don't wear evening dress in daytime. Don't wear jewelry of a gaudy character; genuine jewelry modestly worn is not out of place. Don't overdress yourself or walk affectedly. Don't wear slippers or dressing-gown or smoking-jacket out of your own house. Don't sink your hands in your trousers' pockets.
The note is meant for me." So the truth and the lie mingled! When John Randolph called that evening he was ushered into the presence of Isabelle. "I am so sorry about Evadne!" she exclaimed, before he had time to speak. "She had an engagement with my brother. He monopolizes her whenever he is at home." She laughed affectedly.
Tiring of this, he minced off, affectedly, toward the distant house that stood at the landward end of the sloping lawn. As he set the cat down, Brice had stepped out of the shadows of the grove, into the open. And now, not only his face, but his whole body was clearly visible in the dying daylight. The girl's eyes ran appraisingly over the worn clothes and the cracking and dusty shoes.
By G , you should have seen my grey mare, Smith; by G , she's a glorious fencer." "You don't hunt, do you, Ritson?" interrogated Mr. Smith. "Yes, I do," replied Mr. Ritson, affectedly playing with his Woodstock glove; "yes, but I only hunt in Leicestershire with my friend, Lord Bobadob; 'tis not the thing to hunt any where else, 'tis so vulgar."
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