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As soon as Hsueeh P'an saw how distinguee Ying Lien was in her appearance, he formed the resolution of buying her; and when he encountered Feng Yuean, come with the object of depriving him of her, he in the assurance of superiority, called his sturdy menials together, who set upon Feng Yuean and beat him to death.
In every toilette that has taste there is above all tenez a character a sentiment to be support; suppose your lady is to be superbe, or she will rather be elegante, or charmante, or interessante, or distinguee well, dat is all ver' well, and you dress to that idee, one or oder well, very well but none of your wat you call odd.
And then Annette turned to him and said: "Those two people, Soames; they know you, I am sure. Who are they?" Soames nosed sideways. "What people?" "There, you see them; just turning away. They know you." "No," Soames answered; "a mistake, my dear." "A lovely face! And how she walk! Elle est tres distinguee!" Soames looked then.
Joseph Sedley; but he thought to himself how delightful it would be to hear such songs as those after Cutcherry what a distinguee girl she was how she could speak French better than the Governor-General's lady herself and what a sensation she would make at the Calcutta balls. "It's evident the poor devil's in love with me," thought he.
And then Annette turned to him and said: "Those two people, Soames; they know you, I am sure. Who are they?" Soames nosed sideways. "What people?" "There, you see them; just turning away. They know you." "No," Soames answered; "a mistake, my dear." "A lovely face! And how she walk! Elle est tres distinguee!" Soames looked then.
The toilette superbe requires only cost a toilette distinguee demands care. There was a happiness as well as care in Felicie's genius for dress, which, ever keeping the height of fashion in view, never lost sight of nature, adapting, selecting, combining to form a perfect whole, in which art itself concealed appeared only, as she expressed it, in the sublime of simplicity.
The WLGW was very severe; our sleeping-place could hardly be DISTINGUEÉ from the snow around it, which had fallen to a depth of a FLIRK during the past evening, and we heartily enjoyed a rough scramble EN BAS to the Giesbach falls, where we soon found a warm climate.
I pressed her more fervently to come, and at last she consented, stipulating only that I should call for her rather late, after she had quite finished her household duties and the other boarders had gone off to the ball. With a black domino covering her impossible face, and a simple evening dress, she looked as distinguée as my best girl would have done.
She had often called him a horrid dissipated wretch, and threatened to tell Emmy of his wicked ways and naughty extravagant habits. She brought his cigar and lighted it for him; she knew the effect of that manoeuvre, having practised it in former days upon Rawdon Crawley. He thought her gay, brisk, arch, distinguee, delightful.
At another were to be seen some American seamen, scrupulously neat in their attire, and with an air distinguee, from the superiority of their education, and all of them quiet and sober.
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