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When she saw him approaching in the distance, she went forward to meet him in that direct, forceful way which only she could attempt with him, a sort of mannish impetuosity which he both enjoyed and admired, and slipping her arms around his neck, said: "Honey, you needn't tell me. I saw it in the papers the other morning. Don't you mind, honey. I love you. I'll wait for you.
He thought the dress she had worn the most stylish thing he had ever seen. Clara's friend Kate Chanceller, while mannish in her dress, had an instinct for style and had taught Clara some valuable lessons. "Any woman can dress well if she knows how," Kate had declared. She had taught Clara how to study and emphasize by dress the good points of her body.
But when he had lurched from the cabin, she touched me. Smiled with her mannish swagger, for fear we were still observed, and murmured: "Oh Gregg, I am afraid!" We stayed in the cubby a few moments, whispering and planning. "You think the signal room is in the tower, Gregg? This tower outside our window here?" "Yes, I think so." "Shall we go out and see?" "Yes. Keep near me always."
Now, however, she wished that she could do or say something aggressively mannish, for she felt herself dwindling away to the merest femininity, under a scrutiny which had its fascination, whether agreeable or disagreeable. "You must," he said, with really unwarrantable patronage, "have found that the study of medicine has its difficulties, you must have been very strongly drawn to it."
I suppose it was the working of some obscure mannish vanity of what in a woman would have defined itself as coyness and coquetry. If he wanted to speak well, let him speak; I wouldn't help him. I could realise the processes of his mind even more clearly than those of my own his desire, his hesitancy. He was too timid to leap the barriers; I must open a gate for him.
The mother-in-law is a thing of beauty and a joy forever, compared to the mannish woman; the female book-agent takes on new lustre and even the poetess is a desirable companion beside her. The mannish woman wears a coat and vest and no, she doesn't wear trousers, because she doesn't dare, but a vertical strip of braid down the middle of her skirt suggests the effect.
He was describing minutely and realistically the sufferings of a virgin martyr, and his chief hearer followed what he said with absorbed interest. Stradella instantly recognised the ex-Queen of Sweden. There was no mistaking the daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, with her square face and red cheeks, her disagreeable eyes and her black wig, her short green skirt and her mannish bearing.
Perhaps his face was his fortune, as certainly his sisters had been his victims. After the funeral he had several interviews with Caroline and Sophia, when Rose could hear the mannish voice of Caroline growing gruff with indignation and the high tones of Sophia rising to a squeak.
Clara smiled with an innocent air of half wonder and half amusement, such as you may see on the face of a child when it is shown some new and rather awe-striking marvel of the universe, whether a jack-in-a-box or a comet. She had only known Aunt Maria for the last four years, and she had not yet got used to her rough-and-ready mannish ways, nor learned to see any sense in her philosophizings.
"I simply do not believe you. A man is never so useful as when he moves in the dark. Women were born to mystify. Some of us do it one way some in another. If you wear mannish clothes and a Bath-bun, it is because they become you extraordinarily well and because they form a disguise more complete and mystifying than anything else you could assume." "A disguise!" "Exactly.
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