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But she was free from all coquetry, and she assumed an air of scornful contempt when Louise, displaying her bows and ribbons, chaffed her about her clumsily knotted neckerchiefs. Moreover, she was virtuous; it was said that the son of a rich shopkeeper in the neighbourhood had gone abroad in despair at having failed to induce her to listen to his suit.
He bent down, put his hands gently on her shoulders, and gave her a long kiss. "And this is how you're managing!" he added, lifting himself up, and speaking with a sort of tender humour as again he looked at the room. "I must learn to maid you." And he went about rather clumsily getting the things together, picking them up by the wrong end, and laying them in a heap on the sofa.
I want America to have something up her sleeve, that's why." "You're a great girl, Pamela," her brother declared. "I'm off downtown, feeling a different man. And, Pamela, I haven't said much, but God bless you, and as long as I live I'm going as straight as a die. I've had my lesson." He bent over her a little clumsily and kissed her. Pamela walked to the door with him.
All around her kneeling, crowding, meddling, interfering frightened people queried: "Who is she? Who is she?" Now and again from out of the medley some one offered a half-articulate suggestion. It was the hotel proprietor who moved first. Clumsily but kindly, with a fat hand thrust under her shoulders, he tried to raise her head from the floor.
The things which we have clumsily and impertinently dared to set off by themselves, and label as "immaterial," are no less truly component parts or members of the real frame of natural existence than are molecules of oxygen or crystals of diamond. We believe in the existence of one as much as in the existence of the other.
Jane Maxwell's daughter Flora came toward her over the grass. "Hullo!" said she. "Hullo!" returned Lois. "It's a terrible day isn't it?" "Terrible!" Lois got up, but Flora would not take her chair. She sat down clumsily on the pine needles, and fanned herself with the cover of a book she carried. "I've just been down to the library, an' got this book," she remarked. "Is it good?"
We may imagine it does us good because, for a little while after drinking it, we may cease to feel pain or fatigue or cold; but, instead of making us really better and able to do more work, it is dulling our nerves so that we work more slowly and more clumsily.
He was thin, dressed like a dandy, with a pretty varnished mask on his face. It had a curly blond mustache and a wavy wig. He looked like a wax figure from the Musee Grevin, like a strange and fantastic caricature of the charming young man of fashion plates, and he danced with visible effort, clumsily, with a comical impetuosity.
The lamp was spreading soot over everything and the reek of kerosene was stronger than usual. She ran to the lamp and extinguished it. Spurlock slept on. It was still too dark for reading, but she could see well enough to note the number of the last page fifty-six. Ruth wore a printed cotton kimono. She tied the obi clumsily about her waist, then gently laid her hand on the bowed head.
But you do not know. We are how you say persecute all ze time. Zey own Alsace, but zey do not love Alsace. It is like it is like ze stepfather you see?" she added, her voice breaking. "So zey have always treat us." For a few seconds Tom stood, awkward and uncomfortable; then clumsily he reached out his hand and took hers.
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