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No one, he added with true feeling, would grudge a single dollar that had been spent upon the education of the dear girl; and this went to my heart." "She is well educated, then?" "She sings well," he says, "and has had a good plain education. He said I might rest assured that she was ladylike, because she had been brought up among his own friends."
Will you take me for your lover? Madam, answer 'yes' or 'no." She explained in an aside to Mark, "But her father had told her she must always answer just the one thing, 'no, so she had to say," she turned up in the mincing, ladylike key again, and sang, "Oh no, John, no, John, no."
But in this case I was surprised, because I never knew their mother was a slave. She was a singularly handsome and ladylike woman." "How was it possible that Mr. Royal neglected to manumit her?" inquired the young man. "I suppose he never thought of her otherwise than as his wife, and never dreamed of being otherwise than rich," rejoined the Signor."
Lucy, in spite of her brocade skirt and handsome gown of blue velvet tucked up over it, was still devoid of any look of distinction, but was a round- faced, blooming, cheerful maiden, of that ladylike thoroughly countrified type happily frequent in English girlhood throughout all time.
"She is a lady, if she is a servant." "That's just what I don't want, Sylvia," said Mrs. Thorne, with a plaintive inflection, "a ladylike servant." "Oh, well, we must try her. How's the girl to get a character if nobody tries her? And she's real splendid, I think, going off to get money to help her mother. And I'm sure she's had some great sorrow or disappointment, you know.
She was a very good child, and quite useful in the house. And while she was speaking she watched Kirsteen, and thought: 'She is very handsome, and altogether ladylike; only it is such a pity she wears that blue thing in her hair it makes her so conspicuous. And rather unexpectedly she said: "Do you know, dear, I believe I know the very thing to keep your hair from getting loose.
'I suppose you mean Doreen; but why should you say you "hear" it? There's no need for you to go to other people to hear what I do, or what friends I have; I always tell you what happens at school, and I thought you liked Doreen Hackney. Of course I know she is not very ladylike outwardly, but she is agreeable, said Vava, championing her friend rather hotly. 'Doreen Hackney?
And as I loosens my hold he straightens up, only to get the full benefit of that placid, ladylike lookover. "Ahr-r-r chee!" says he, glancin' disgusted at me. Then he starts gettin' rosy in the ears, like he always does when there's fluffs around, and after one more hasty look he bolts back into the gym.
If you care to speak to Susan, I shall ring for her to see you in the dining-room, and she will tell you at once what she can do for you," Mrs. Jennings finished sweetly. He did care; indeed he was so intent on benefiting by what Mrs. Jennings, in her ladylike way, made so great an obligation conferred by her on her fellow-creatures, that he caught at the hope held out to him.
But when he spoke of her as "Miss Jansen," and said she was so much more "ladylike and refined than the other servants," she replied by asking him if his bandages hurt him, and, receiving a negative answer, graciously withdrew.
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