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Our superintendent, who was a man of culture and a Christian gentleman of the Puritan-school, dignified and reserved, used often to stop at my desk in his daily round to see what book I was reading. One day it was Mather's "Magnalia," which I had brought from the public library, with a desire to know something of the early history of New England.
That surely was the breakfast bell ringing, and with the dignified ancestral sound which was still so novel and attractive to Marcella's ear. Recalled to Mellor Park and its circumstances, she went thoughtfully downstairs, pondering a little on the shallow steps of the beautiful Jacobean staircase. Could she ever turn her back upon those holidays?
Margaret turned to the scoffing Levina, with an air of dignified displeasure which rather startled the latter. "Levina! thou hast forgotten thyself. Do as thou art bid." And Levina disappeared without venturing a reply. "What have they done to thy brother, Belasez?" asked Margaret. "They beat him sorely. Damsel, and turned him forth into the street." "Where did he go?"
Here is a heavy-faced young fellow in evening dress, perhaps endeavoring to act the part of a gentleman, who has come from an evening party unfortunately a little "slewed," but who does not know how to sustain the character, for presently he becomes very familiar and confidential with the dignified colored waiter at the buffet, who requires all his native politeness to maintain the character of a gentleman for two.
And she drew herself up with dignified resignation while Lord Algy stared wildly at her, his feeble mind in a whirl. Presently she smiled most seductively, and looked up with her dark, tear-wet eyes to the moon. "I guess it's a good night for lovers!" she said, sinking her ordinary tone to an almost sweet cadence. "But we're not of that sort, are we?" The die was cast!
For a work of art, the whole of which is conceived in great, simple, harmonious parts, makes indeed a noble and dignified impression; but the peculiar enjoyment which the pleasing produces can only find place in the consonance of all developed details.
He was awfully sorry he hadn't thanked her I know he was! But he is going to write her a note, and I told him he could say 'thank you' to the next one, and he said he should." Juanita Sterling disgraced herself the second time. She dropped back in her chair with a stifled laugh. "Miss Nita!" began Polly plaintively. "I know, dear! But to think of your saying such things to that dignified man!"
Then they went down-stairs together, and the next minute Anita appeared, wearing a gown of white and silver, with a delicious little train, which she managed as well as a seventeen-year-old could manage a train. In a minute or two the guests began arriving. They were handsome, middle-aged officers and dignified matrons.
I could see a house back in the trees as we came to the ford a beautiful old house the kind you see a lot of in the South high white pillars dignified and aristocratic. It seemed to be quiet and safe, so we trotted up the drive, the eleven of us. The front door was open, and I jumped off my horse and ran up the steps and stood in the doorway.
Unwilling to admit to his usually grave unimpressible self the fact that he was restless and disturbed, he reduced his pace to a dignified march, extended his chosen beat to a wider margin of the sandy shore, and, parting the blighted branches of a group of trees, that bore evidence of the effect of constant exposure to lake winds, he affected to examine them critically.
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