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I don't like having a stranger in the house; my father is fond of having his own way." "It is astonishing how often parents are so," said Phoebe, demurely; "and the way they talk of their experience! as if each new generation did not know more than the one that preceded it." "You are pleased to laugh, but I am quite in earnest. A pupil is a nuisance.
Somebody suggested doubts to him about the response. 'Oh, he said, 'the beggars will be glad enough to come!" "I suppose, Mr. Lyon," said Margaret, demurely, "that this sort of thing is unknown in England?" "Oh, I couldn't say that money is not run after there to some extent." "I saw a picture in Punch of an auction, intended as an awful satire on American women.
Desiree Candeille had kept herself very much aloof throughout the evening, only talking to the one or two gentlemen whom her hostess had presented to her on her arrival, and with M. Chauvelin always in close attendance upon her every movement. Presently, when dancing began, she retired to a small boudoir, and there sat down, demurely waiting, until Lady Blakeney should require her services.
"You know nobody; you have access to no newspaper, so your Marguerites will remain demurely folded as you hold them now. They will never open out to the sun of publicity in fair fields with broad margins enameled with the florets which Dauriat the illustrious, the king of the Wooden Galleries, scatters with a lavish hand for poets known to fame.
She made a delightful cicerone, for she has a keen sense of humour and a wide knowledge of native life. We went first to see the girls' school a quaint sight. All the funny little women with their hair well oiled and plastered down, with iron bangles on their wrists to show that they were married, wrapped in their saris, so demurely chanting their lessons!
"It is not the voice of a native songster," said the Khoja demurely, "but the foreign nightingale sings so." Tale 16. The Khoja's Donkey and The Woollen Pelisse. One day the Khoja mounted his donkey to ride to the garden, but on the way there he had business which obliged him to dismount and leave the donkey for a short time.
When the guests were all assembled, Carrie, not knowing whether Durward Bellmont would relish plays, seated herself demurely upon the sofa, prepared to act the dignified young lady, or any other character she might think necessary. "Get up, Cad," said John Jr. "Nobody's going to act like they were at a funeral; get up, and let's play something."
I'll ring the bell for you to come in and be dressed for tea when it is time." With these directions and a kiss, Miss Penny, as Cicely did not stir, let the child out at the back door of the long hall, and watched her walk demurely down the main path of the prim old garden, where no child had played for years, and even the toads and fat robins behaved in the most decorous manner.
"He was my grandfather's man, and served him in the wars of Queen Anne," interposed Mr. Warrington. On which my lady cried, petulantly, "O Lord! Queen Anne's dead, I suppose, and we ain't a-going into mourning for her." This matter of Lockwood was discussed at the family dinner, when her ladyship announced her intention of getting rid of the old man. "I am told," demurely remarks Mr.
So, that being a well-established fact I established it by hanging over them and staring at their eyelids it seemed a good time for me to let the dance out of my toes. Still careful of my fresh linen frock, and remembering about the best shoes, I went on, demurely, down the green alleys of the wood. Now I stepped on patches of sunshine, now in pools of shadow.
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