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Providence has been very thoughtful in providing us with poor. Dear Lady Bountiful! does it not ever occur to you to thank God for the poor? The clean, grateful poor, who bob their heads and curtsey and assure you that heaven is going to repay you a thousandfold. One does hope you will not be disappointed.
Hodge, the farmer's boy, took off his hat, and Polly, the milkmaid, bobbed a curtsey, as the chaise whirled over the pleasant village-green, and the white-headed children lifted their chubby faces and cheered. The church-spires glistened with gold, the cottage-gables glared in sunshine, the great elms murmured in summer, or cast purple shadows over the grass.
You will find the tigress-cub take after its mother." With those parting words, she favored us with a low curtsey, and left the room. The Minister looked at me in an absent manner; his attention seemed to have been wandering. "What was it Miss Chance said?" he asked. Before I could speak, a friend's voice at the door interrupted us.
The face and manner of the child, as she walked into the center of the circus, and made her innocent curtsey and kissed her hand, went to the hearts of the whole audience in an instant. They greeted her with such a burst of applause as might have frightened a grown actress.
"But would you see Mrs. Twiss, ma'am? She's going from home I believe." "Going from home she who never leaves her own cottage! Yes, I will see her," and in another moment the neat old woman was making her curtsey at the door. "Come in, come in, Barbara," said Grandmamma. "And so you are off somewhere? How is that?
Villon flung his hands apart with a magnificent gesture of liberation. "That broker of ballads shall go free. Your prayer unshackles him and we will do no more than banish him from Paris. Forget that such a slave ever came near you." The lady dropped him a magnificent curtsey, and her cheeks glowed with gratitude. "I shall remember your clemency."
She curtsied to the figure in the mirror, a long, sweeping, old-fashioned curtsey that ended with a "cheese," and the billowy gown spread itself out around her shimmeringly like the party frock of some belle of long ago; the "Former Belle" of her little book might have curtsied and looked just so. This charmed her utterly, and she did it again and again.
There Miss Polly smoothed her apron, and Master Jacky combed his hair with his pocket-comb, and they walked hand-in-hand into Mrs. Howard's parlour as if nothing had happened. They made a low bow and curtsey at the door, as their mamma had bidden them; and Mrs. Howard received them very kindly, for Master and Miss Cartwright had not mentioned a word of their ill-behaviour on the road.
"If you got up and made me a curtsey," Tembarom said, "I should throw a fit. Say, Mrs. Hutchinson, I bet you know that as well as I do." The shrewd bit of a smile lighted her eyes as well as twinkled about her mouth. "Sit thee doun," she said again. So he sat down and looked at her as straight as she looked at him.
Miss Alicia's heart beat rapidly in her breast, and she involuntarily made a curtsey as the great lady in mourning drove by. She lost no shade of any flavor of ecstatic pleasure in anything, and was to Tembarom, who knew nothing about shades and flavors, indeed a touching and endearing thing. He had never got so much out of anything.
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