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Klesmer was vain, but not more so than many contemporaries of heavy aspect, whose vanity leaps out and startles one like a spear out of a walking-stick; as to his carriage and gestures, these were as natural to him as the length of his fingers; and the rankest affectation he could have shown would have been to look diffident and demure.
She stopped; and with tears of holy sympathy in her eyes, Alice thanked the songstress, who resumed her calm, demure manner, much to Mary's wonder, for she looked at her unweariedly, as if surprised that the hidden power should not be perceived in the outward appearance.
Her own smile was instantly responsive, and she stood almost roguishly before him in her short frock, and the demure pinafore which she was wearing over it. "Miss Summers sent me," she explained. "Thought you might want some help." Gaga shook his head, the smile still apparent. He shook his head again, trying to find words to express himself, and failing. "No, Sally," he at last ventured.
This placid and demure attitude she deemed becoming to a Christian matron and widow. Everyone might see that she had not come for worldly pleasure, but merely to be present at a triumph of her fellow-Christians and especially her son over the idolaters.
Demure and fragile-looking girls, pictures of maidenly innocence, with a semblance of conventional unction about their heads, were there like apparitions that a breath might dissipate. Aristocratic beauties with haughty glances, languid, flexible, slender, and complaisant, bent their heads as though there were royal protectors still in the market.
Surprise and satisfaction were both for an instant to be read upon his eager face, though when she glanced round to find out the cause of his silence he had become as demure as ever. I stared hard myself at her flat, grizzled hair, her trim cap, her little gilt earrings, her placid features; but I could see nothing which could account for my companion's evident excitement.
There was a world of self-reproach in her speech, and again she would have withdrawn her hand and gone. "One moment," said I, hoarsely. "Will you can you tell me your name?" There was a demure smile on her face as the moon kissed it, and "They call me Claire," she said. "Claire," I murmured, half to myself. "And yours?" she asked. "Jasper Jasper Trenoweth." "Then good-bye, Mr. Jasper Trenoweth.
And my young lady gives me one of those demure bows which ever set my heart agoing like a smith's hammer of a Monday. A traveller who has all but gained the last height of the great mist-covered mountain looks back over the painful crags he has mastered to where a light is shining on the first easy slope. That light is ever visible, for it is Youth.
Argyll was in a demure equivalent for some Court costume, with a dark velvet coat, a ribbon of the Thistle upon his shoulder, a sword upon his haunch, and for all his sixty-six years he carried himself less like the lawyer made at Utrecht like Justice-General and Extraordinary Lord of Session than like the old soldier who had served with Marlborough and took the field for the House of Hanover in 1715.
They looked up at his approach, but again cast down their eyes with demure shyness; yet he fancied that they first exchanged glances with each other, full of mischievous intelligence. "I am your cousin Paul," he said smilingly, "though I am afraid I am introducing myself almost as briefly as your father just now excused himself to me.
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