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The Guests The Presents on View Starting for the Honeymoon Dress and Luggage Where to Go and How Long to Stay Inevitable Test of Temperament Possible Disappointments Disillusion, Passing or Permanent. The Guests. The average crowd, mainly composed of women, who throng to see a wedding are unfortunately notorious for their utter lack of reverence and total want of manners.
Manners, ideas, beliefs, traditions, crumbling institutions, rising aspirations, the ordering of castes and classes, the rivalry of creeds, the relations with the governing power all constitute elements of such radical divergence as to make comparison between modern Ireland and revolutionary France for any more serious purpose than giving a conventional and familiar point to a sentence, entirely worthless.
Where has the slang come from? Pray who brought it into the drawing-room? How is it that girls delight in stable-talk, and imitate men in their dress and manners? We cannot deny that the domestic virtues have suffered in these fast days, nor that wife and husband go different ways too much: but are we to bear all the blame? Did we build the clubs, I wonder?
"Does he ever make such a brute of himself?" "Often." "And the boys allow it?" "They can't help it." "So, it seems, you have a tyrant of the school?" "That's just it." "Isn't there any boy among you to teach the fellow better manners? You must be cowards to submit." "Oh, you'll find out soon that you must submit, too," said Wilkins. Hector smiled. "You don't know me yet," he said.
He found him seated at his ease, playing dice with two young ladies whose manners were unreserved, and complexion high. Gerard was hurt. "N'oubliez point la Jeanneton!" said he, colouring up. "What of her?" said Denys, gaily rattling the dice. "She said, 'Le peu que sont les femmes." "Oh, did she? And what say you to that, mesdemoiselles?"
Olga laid a restraining hand upon the hammock. "But do you like him, Nick? Honestly now!" "My dear child, I never like anyone till I've seen him at his worst. Drawing-room manners never attract me." "But this man hasn't got any manners at all," objected Olga. "And he's so horribly satirical. It's like having a stinging-nettle in the house.
His manners, to high and low, were most affable, yet everywhere he was the prelate, the gentleman, the author of "Telemachus." He ruled his diocese with a gentle hand, in no way meddled with the Jansenists; he left all untouched. Take him for all in all, he had a bright genius and was a great man.
Miss G. And where on earth, then, did you get that song? Christy. Where but in my brains should I get it? I could do that much any way, I suppose, though it was not my luck to be edicated at Ferrinafad. Miss GALLAGHER gives her a box on the ear. Miss G. Manners! that's to teach ye. Biddy. Manners!
He therefore resolved to receive with equanimity whatever should be offered by the Emperor, either in civility or in the way of jest, and not again to disturb an understanding which might be of advantage to Christendom, by a quarrel founded upon misconception of terms or misapprehension of manners.
Equal opportunities of higher education now open Brings new dangers to women Ineradicable sex differences begin at puberty, when the sexes should and do diverge Different interests Sex tension Girls more mature than boys at the same age Radical psychic and physiological differences between the sexes The bachelor women Needed reconstruction Food Sleep Regimen Manners Religion Regularity The topics for a girls' curriculum The eternal womanly.
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