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And as you ask me" here the major began to look a little queer for his own part, and put on his demure look "as you ask me, my dear, for information, why, I don't mind telling you that ah that Morgan, my man, has made some inquiries regarding this affair, and that my friend Doctor Goodenough also looked into it and it appears that this person was greatly smitten with Arthur; that he paid for her and took her to Vauxhall Gardens, as Morgan heard from an old acquaintance of Pen's and ours, an Irish gentleman, who was very nearly once having the honor of being the from an Irishman, in fact; that the girl's father, a violent man of intoxicated habits, has beaten her mother, who persists in declaring her daughter's entire innocence to her husband on the one hand, while on the other she told Goodenough that Arthur had acted like a brute to her child.
It offered an excellent opportunity for acting, and Mildred was only happy when she could get outside herself. She crossed her hands and composed her most demure air; and, for the sake of the audience which it pleased her to imagine; and when Harold was not looking she allowed her malicious eyes to say what she was really thinking.
Upon this sad occasion, Nancy seemed to be the only real mourner; for, though her father and brother hung their heads, and looked demure for a day or two, even the semblance of sorrow vanished before the exciting potations which they swallowed at the dregy. Nancy, however, did feel the loss of her mother, and mourned it as deeply as her young heart could.
But it got on Agnes' nerves and one afternoon, before the first week of school was over, she turned suddenly on the demure Trix in the middle of her recitation and exclaimed, hysterically: "If you don't stop whispering that way, Trix Severn, I'll just go mad!" "Agnes!" ejaculated Miss Shipman. "What does this mean?" "I don't care!" cried Agnes, stormily. "She interrupts me "
I declare you're the prettiest woman in the room, and dance the handsomest." "Indeed, Mr. A ," replied she, suppressing her love of fun and assuming a demure look, "I am afraid you flatter me." "No, I don't I'm in earnest. I've just come to ask you to dance." Such was the penalty of being too charming.
"You little witch!" he cried gaily, as gaily as Wanda had spoken at first and more genuinely so. "You've just set out to plague me. And I'll show you how I treat little girls who tease!" Without more ado he came close to the rock upon which she sat looking down at him with demure eyes, swept her off into his arms and kissed her before he put her down.
And she then with her free hand to cover mine eyes, so that I might not see; and whilst that she did hold me thus so utter helpless, she to kiss me very dainty and impudent upon the mouth; and afterward she loost me, and did be demure.
The curl of Miss Strange's disdainful lip was a sight to see. "You wrote those words yourself," she coolly observed. "While someone's back was turned, you whipped out your pencil and " "Resorted to a very pardonable subterfuge highly conducive to the public's good. But never mind that. Will you go?" Miss Strange became suddenly demure. "I suppose I must," she grudgingly conceded.
"I should like to see Carew demure," said the chaplain, smiling; "although not reduced to that state by the extremities of poverty. Yes, as you say," he added, in a graver tone, "the pace at which he has been going these twenty years has begun to tell on his fortune. It is his race-horses on the Downs yonder that will bring him to his piece of bread."
Instead of using a carriage she now drove about in a donkey-chair, the said boy walking in front to clear the way and keep the animal in motion; while she wore, so his informants reported, not an ordinary widow's cap or bonnet, but something even plainer, the black material being drawn tightly round her face, giving her features a small, demure, devout cast, very pleasing to the eye.
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