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Back he goes and finds it has a kind of loaded feelin’. So my friend investigates—and I be blanked if there wasn’t a foot and leg inside of it." Miss Carmichael had always exercised a super-feminine self-restraint in the case of casual mice, and it served her in the present instance.
If Olive noted the little pause, she had at least the super-feminine tact to ignore it. "Your priesthood?" He nodded slowly. "After a fashion, yes." This time, the pause seemed to her entirely natural. "She must be very happy now," she answered.
Every city girl he had ever met in College or town society came out to camp and asked for him at K Street K Street with its saucy cardinal flag waving above the first tent to the left. Most of them brought candy; a vary few, with super-feminine understanding, made it beer; one, she was a genius, sent over on a drizzling evening a piping-hot steak.
'Pardon it to one who knew that she would require super-feminine power of decision to resolve that she would dispose of herself! 'I heard of Harry Richmond before I saw him. My curiosity to behold the two fair boys of the sailor kingdom set me whipping my pony after them that day so remote, which is always yesterday.
Thoroughly idle people and there is not much question that Miss Fenimer was idle learn a variety of methods for keeping other people at work, and probably the most effective of these is flattery. Christine may have been ignorant of the feminine arts of cooking and fire-making; but of the super-feminine art of flattery she was a thorough mistress.
'Pardon it to one who knew that she would require super-feminine power of decision to resolve that she would dispose of herself! 'I heard of Harry Richmond before I saw him. My curiosity to behold the two fair boys of the sailor kingdom set me whipping my pony after them that day so remote, which is always yesterday.
She has also, most imperatively, to dazzle him without the betrayal of artifice, where simple spontaneousness is beyond conjuring. But feelings that are constrained becloud the judgement besides arresting the fine jet of delivery wherewith the mastered lover is taught through his ears to think himself prompted, and submit to be controlled, by a creature super-feminine.
He liked their super-feminine delicacies of speech and motion, and the flattering interest they began to take in all his affairs. Miss Isobel developed a palpitating concern for his spiritual welfare and invited him to go to church with her. She even introduced him to the minister with proud reference to his distinguished grandfather, and basked in the reflected glory.
The excellent Countess used to wish that her daughter would grow up more like other girls, and in the sincere belief that a little womanly vanity must certainly counteract a desire for super-feminine mental cultivation, she honestly tried to interest Cecilia in such frivolities as dress, dancing, and romantic fiction. The result was only very partially successful.
Now Miss Carteret was a woman in every fiber of her, but among her gifts she might have counted some that were, to say the least, super-feminine. One of these was a measure of discretion which would have been fairly creditable in a past master of diplomacy.
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