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The double solution of the two threads, neither of which is properly subordinated, and which are wholly independent, is a serious blot on the dramatic merit of the play. The courtly element, moreover, is but clumsily grafted on to the pastoral stock. Throughout the debts to predecessors, whether of language or incident, are fairly obvious.
I would not drag her down to degradation; I love her too well for that. Keep her to thyself. I give thee back thy pledge." Lord Montacute smiled as he laid his hand upon the young man's shoulder. "So hot and hasty, Wendot, as hasty as those black-haired twins. Yet, boy, I like thee for thy outspoken candour, and I would not have thee change it for the smooth treachery of courtly intrigue.
While the humbled remnants of one sex of the ci-devant privileged classes are thus or worse employed, many persons of the other sex have preferred domestic servitude to courtly splendour, and are chambermaids or governesses, when they might have been Maids of Honour or ladies-in-waiting.
A straightforward, honest, simple fellow looked he, all utility and practicalness if there is such a word. One, plain in all ways. It was Janus Verner never, in the memory of anybody, called anything but "Jan" second and youngest son of Lady Verner, brother to Lionel. He brother to courtly Lionel, to stately Decima, son to refined Lady Verner?
There was something so commanding as well as courtly in the tone and bearing of this extraordinary man, that Paul half involuntarily removed his cap as he replied: "Forgive me, sir, if astonishment at your sudden appearance has made me appear rude. Will you sit down beside us and share our meal, while I answer your questions?"
The parson said grace, which was not a short familiar one, such as is commonly addressed to the Deity in these unceremonious days, but a long, courtly, well-worded one of the ancient school.
An embroidered vest set off a loose white silk shirt, and on his head was a red fez, shaped like a section of a cone, slightly less in diameter at the top than at the bottom. "Please come in," he requested. His voice was accented. Rick saw that he had two horizontal hairline scars on each cheek. The man took their coats, giving Barby a courtly bow. "Dr.
After a moment of affectionate contemplation of his own julep, the Colonel said: "Bob's household will be over to dinner tonight. I trust you can be with us, sir!" Before he could reply, Miss Liz appeared in the doorway, and both men arose with courtly bows.
There were five speakers whom he particularly favored in that way: Palmer, Forbes, Naylor, Norris, and Calder. Palmer and Forbes could never get through a speech without attacking each other, and each in his own way was formidably effective Palmer in virile and eloquent abuse, Forbes in courtly and elegant but scalding satire.
Most of these courtly gallants were dressed in the garb which the pencil of Vandyke has made familiar even at the distance of nearly two centuries; and which was just at this period beginning to supersede the more fluttering and frivolous dress which had been adopted from the French Court of Henri Quatre.
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