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"All right!" whispered Mrs. Farnaby, perfectly understanding him. "Consult your dignity; go out again, and knock at the door, and ask if I am at home. I only wanted to prevent a fuss and an interruption when Regina comes back. If the servants don't know we are here, they will tell her we haven't returned don't you see?" It would have been absurd to contest the matter, after this.
Some of us find it hard enough to be dignified when we have done right; but Foxy could be dignified when she had done wrong, and the more wrong, the more dignity. She was very bland, and there was a look of deep content digestive content, a state bordering on the mystic's trance in her affectionate topaz eyes.
There was an air of unconcern and meanness on the court, and all its practitioners and attendants; but, being infallible, it can dispense with the appearance of dignity. I asked Mr Stewart to conduct me to the criminal court, which was sitting in another apartment under the same roof.
At the beauty of the maid Enid all the court marvelled; and the queen hastened to clothe her in robes of satin, rich and rare, with gold upon her hair and about her throat. And when she was so dressed, all were glad that one of so sweet a dignity and rare a beauty had come among them.
"I may have said it was 'weird," he admitted, "but that's rather different to saying it was 'comic. There is dignity in weird things. For example, nightmares aren't comic but they're weird." "Thank you," she said pointedly. "Not that I mean your name is anything approaching a nightmare."
Miss Lou bowed low over her plate at this speech. "But how about the long hours of the night, sir? Have you such control over your men " "Yes, sir!" interrupted Scoville with dignity. "The men I have with me are soldiers, not camp-followers. They would no more harm you or anything you possess, without orders, than I would." "Without orders a clause of large latitude.
A little while ago," said Minnie with dignity, "mamma was all for gadding about; and now she finds fault when I say the simplest things, all because I said that Eustace of course Eustace takes an interest in Chatty: next to his own sisters of course he naturally takes an interest in you." Chatty placed her tall vase in the corner which she had chosen for it, in silence.
Aunt Trudy was descending the front stairs leisurely an hour or two later, pleasantly contemplating the nearness of the lunch hour, when the door bell rang sharply. Really it sounded as though someone had jabbed it viciously. Aunt Trudy approached the door with reproving dignity. "You're Miss Wright, aren't you?" said a rasped voice. "Well, I'm Mrs.
In the hall they encountered a young man. "Harold," said Mrs. Gwynne, "give welcome to an old a very old friend of mine Captain Angus Rothesay. Angus, this is my son my only son, Harold." And she looked upon him as a mother, widowed for twenty years, looks upon an only son; yet the pride was tempered with dignity, the affection was veiled under reserve.
Enlarged views, elevated sentiments, a hopeful and courageous spirit, a wide knowledge of men and men's recorded experience, and a manly dignity of style, mark them all as the productions of no common mind. After separating from the Democratic party, Mr.
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