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"Well enough," replied Countess Zomaloff, nonchalantly, casting a last glance at the large mirror before her. "Where is my bouquet?" "Here, madame." "Heavens! how frightfully yellow and faded it is!" cried the countess, shrinking back. "The duke has just sent it," ventured the maid. "I recognize his good taste," said the countess sarcastically, as she shrugged her pretty shoulders disdainfully.
"Miss Sefton is very little older than we are, and yet she has lovely diamond and emerald rings. Did you see her dressing bag? It was filled up so beautifully; its bottles silver mounted; it must have cost thirty guineas, at least. And then her furs; I should like to be in her place." "I should not envy Miss Sefton because she is rich," retorted Hatty disdainfully.
"Travelers who have seen them," interrupted Paganel, "don't agree at all in their accounts. Magellan said that his head scarcely reached to their waist." "Well, then, that proves." "Yes, but Drake declares that the English are taller than the tallest Patagonian?" "Oh, the English that may be," replied the Major, disdainfully, "but we are talking of the Scotch."
"Wait one instant, madame," I said, feeling that to enact my part thoroughly I ought to attempt to make some defense of Nina's conduct; "permit me to say a word! My fiancee is very young and thoughtless. I really cannot think that her very innocent parting caress to me had anything in it that was meant to purposely annoy you." The nun glanced at me her eyes flashed disdainfully.
"I want to paint you just as you are," he said, and noticing that she looked rather disdainfully at her shabby black cashmere, added, "The black of your dress could not be better." "We thought," said Miss Snell, deprecatingly, "that you might like a costume. We could easily arrange one." "Not in the least necessary," said the Painter. "I have set my heart on painting her just as she is."
The young man is too courteous to plague you with unwelcome civilities. I saw him in London at the tennis court, and was friendly to him for his father's memory, knowing nothing of his desire to be my son-in-law. He is a fine player at that royal game, and a fine man. He comes here this evening as my friend; and if you please to treat him disdainfully, I cannot help it.
"A girl who could do such a thing!" said Lucilla to herself; and held her head disdainfully, and curled her lip at the other girl. But Miss Dawson, if she noticed that scornful attitude, was not at all impressed by it.
Mrs Macmichel bowed a condescending head as she passed on, receiving no form of salutation but a stare from a pair of vacant eyes in return. "Well, really! Such people!" the lady said to herself, as she walked disdainfully on. "Even here you would expect a man would know he is always expected to take off his hat when a woman bows to him!" "Mrs Macmichel!" a voice said at her back.
And while all Paris was asking disdainfully: "Who are those people?" the poet placed his destiny in those little fairy-like hands, newly gloved for the occasion, which would boldly give the signal for applause when it was time. "Clear the stage!"
The women did not stay indoors because between one street and another they might be struck out of life, without a second's warning. They glanced up to the sky and smiled disdainfully.
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