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"Master Torridon, your Grace," explained the Archbishop, with a deferential stoop of his shoulders. "Your Grace will remember " The King nodded abruptly, and thrust his hand out. Chris touched his father behind. "Go forward," he whispered; "kiss hands." The old man went forward a hesitating step or two.
The young officer held his own amongst them with laughing self-possession. When he had taken his farewell of them he approached Miss Heredith, and held out his hand with a deferential politeness which contrasted rather noticeably with the easy familiarity of his previous leave-taking.
He was tall and athletic-looking, but with a slight stoop, that impressed the reporter as a physical assumption of humility which the handsome face, with its faintly sneering lines and bold eyes, contradicted. But he acknowledged Brander's offhand "How d'ye do?" in a properly deferential manner, and listened respectfully to a few careless sentences of instructions.
In a few minutes I was bowing with a moderate degree of respect before Mlle. de Chantverdun, and making her such adroit excuses that she was enchanted with me. Happiness had restored my presence of mind my deferential manner and apologies delighted the poor old-young lady.
And I'm going to take that fifty cents and buy thrift stamps for Miss Emma McChesney, aged three, and Mr. Buddy McChesney, aged six months. And I'll dispose my old bones in Upper Eleven." She went in to dinner. At eight-thirty a soft and deferential voice sounded in her ear. "Ah got yo' made up, Mis' McChesney." "But this is my " He beckoned.
He looked at women from four points of view, and he had, as it were, a sliding scale of manners on which he might mark delicately his perception of their position. Here his manner was slightly deferential, and at the same time a little familiar proof of his own good breeding. Secondly, there was the Trojan, or the lady of Assured Position.
From their wedding-day, his deportment toward her had been the same as it was to-night attentive, but never officious; deferential, yet far removed from servility; a manner that, without approximating uxoriousness, yet impressed the spectator with the conviction that she was with him first and dearest among women; a partner of whom, if that were possible, he was more proud than fond and of the depth and reality of his affection there could be no question.
His tone was the perfection of deferential courtesy. Once the secretary came in a young man rather like himself and they talked together in a foreign language that was not French nor German; then the secretary bowed and retired.... We were alone.... There can be no sort of doubt that unless I was prepared to flout the wisdom of the ages, I ought to have refused his suggestion.
Francis' manner, although deferential and courteous, had nevertheless some quality of aloofness in it to which she was unused and which she was quick to recognise. The smile, faded from her face. She seemed suddenly not quite so young. "Haven't I seen you before somewhere quite lately?" she asked, a little sharply.
Leaving the goodly town of Berwick and its busy citizens, its castle and its prisoners, for a brief space, we must now transport our readers to a pleasant chamber overlooking the Eden, in the castle of Carlisle, now a royal residence; a fact which, from its numerous noble inmates, its concourse of pages, esquires, guards, and various other retainers of a royal establishment, the constant ingress and egress of richly-attired courtiers, the somewhat bustling, yet deferential aspect of the scene, a very cursory glance would have been all-sufficient to prove.
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