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Harris had to lead the child into the saloon to make her curtsey, and leave her till the bell rang to recall her. "When Harris had left the child with her aunts, she came up again to her own apartments. She came with her mouth open, being all impatience to let out her thoughts to Fanny.
'Allow me, said he, turning to the woman, 'to introduce to your celestial majesty Mr. The woman made me a curtsey of much gravity. The woman made me another curtsey. 'You forget your exalted position, Mrs. Gudgeon, said Cyril; 'when a mystic goddess-queen is so condescending as to curtsey she should be careful not to bend too low.
Chia Cheng is not in his study," Chou Jui laughed, with a curtsey. "It has been daily under lock and key, so there will be no need for you, master, to get down from your horse." "Though it be locked up," Pao-yue smiled, "I shall have to dismount all the same."
That night, when he reached home at last, his daughter came in and made him a curtsey, saying: "Goodnight, daddy." Alexander Alexandrovitch caught her in his arms, placed her on his knees his beloved, his only little daughter. "Well, little Asya, what have you been doing?" he asked. "When you went out to Olya Golovkina Mummy and I played tig."
They all paused at the door, the boys making a salute, the girls a little curtsey. Primrose's was as pretty a little 'bob' as ever was seen. 'I am glad you keep that custom up, said Mr. Mohun. 'Jasper had been brought up to it, and wished it to be the habit among us; and I find it a great protection against bouncing and rudeness.
"And now," says she, "when her Majesty rings her bell twice, I'll trouble you, miss, to attend." So when the Queen's bell rang twice, Betsinda came to her Majesty and made a pretty little curtsey. The Queen, the Princess, and Gruffanuff were all three in the room. As soon as they saw her they began, "You wretch!" says the Queen. "You little vulgar thing!" says the Princess.
At the crazy door of the first cottage they were confronted by a stout, red-faced woman with bare beefy arms, who, on seeing "Cobbler" Horn, dropped a curtsey, and suppressed the angry salutation which she had prepared for Mr. Gray. "A friend of mine, Mrs. Blobs," said the agent. "Glad to see you, sir," said the woman to "Cobbler" Horn. "Will you please to walk in, gentlemen."
I was forced to bite my lips to keep back my tears, and I wished myself child enough to be able to scream and run away, when my mother presently beckoned me forward. I hardly had strength to curtsey when I was actually presented to the old man. Nothing but terror prevented my sinking on the floor, and I heard as through falling waters something about M. le Marquis de Nidemerle and Mrs.
"Well, you're a dream," he added, as she released herself and swept into a curtsey, coquetting with her eyes as she did so. "You're wonderful in blue a flower in the azure," he added. "I seem to remember that gown before years ago " She uttered an exclamation of horror. "Good gracious, you wild and ruthless ruffian! A gown this gown years ago! My bonny boy, do you think I wear my gowns for years?"
Was it possible that this creature was her sister Angela's child? It seemed incredible. "What is your name?" she asked sternly. "Peg, ma'am." "What?" "Sure me name's Peg, ma'am," and she bobbed another little curtsey. Mrs. Chichester closed her eyes and shivered. She asked Alaric to ring. As that young gentleman passed Ethel on his way to the bell he said: "It can't really be true! Eh, Ethel?"
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