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"So graceful, so dignified, so so queenly," continued the little man, with rising enthusiasm. "She has only one fault she has no sense of humour." To Peter, as it has been said, men of forty were mere boys. "My dear fellow, whatever could have induced you " "I know I know all that," interrupted the mere boy. "Nature arranges it on purpose.
With her queenly head thrown back, and a touch of defiance mingled with her fear, she looked as she gazed round her like a creature of a different race from the vile, coarse-featured crew who surrounded her. I had not taken two steps from my door before she sprang to meet me, her hand resting upon my arm and her blue eyes sparkling with joy and triumph.
"I should represent her just lighting upon the hill, you see, with a rich, moist flush upon her face, a cold splendor just melting into passion, half floating, as she comes, so softly superior, so queenly scornful of all the world but him. Jove! it would make a splendid picture!" Lawrence Newt looked at his friend as he imagined the condescending Diana.
The entrance, at the trial scene, was made with the stateliness natural to a queenly woman, and yet with a touch of pathos the cold patience of despair. The delivery of Hermione's defensive speeches was profoundly earnest and touching.
And this, which is true of the lower or household dominion, is equally true of the queenly dominion; that highest dignity is open to you, if you will also accept that highest duty. Rex et Regina Roi et Reine "RIGHT-doers;" they differ but from the Lady and Lord, in that their power is supreme over the mind as over the person that they not only feed and clothe, but direct and teach.
But, with regard to the fact itself the slavish disposition of Englishmen at that time under kingly and queenly rule no doubt can possibly exist. To show that Catholicity had nothing to do with the introduction of such a despotism, would give rise to a dissertation too long for us to enter upon.
Then the lady spoke to him very kindly; and he noticed that, although she was not beautiful, she had most wonderful gray eyes, and a stern but lovable face and a queenly form. And she told him not to fear, but to go out boldly in quest of the Gorgons; for she would help him obtain the terrible head of Medusa. "But I have no ship, and how shall I go?" said Perseus.
The lips might be trembling on the verge of speech and in the quiet smile hovered a delightful hint of whimsical humor. The whole bearing was queenly with that gracious pride which we characterize as royal when we speak of royalty as something inherently noble. For the accolade of a smile from those lips, in the flesh, a man might undertake all manner of folly.
Such a garment as I have in mind for your wife, queenly and abundant " her hands waved in illustration "would cost three hundred. But " her look checked Mary in an exclamation of refusal "we belong to the same world, the world of art, not of finance. Yes?" She smiled. "Your painting, Mr. Byrd, is worth three times what I gave for it, and Mrs. Byrd will wear my raiment as few clients can.
Now the Countess Livia was a lady of queenly pose and the servitorial conventional speech likely at a push to prove beggarly.
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