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Wine, tea and sweet-meats were produced at each house. Their houses are very rude, considering their ample means, and have earthen floors. They have comfortable carriages, and their gentle, sweet-mannered children were loaded with gold and diamonds.
Turner, you aggrieve me, but I was there in April." "And are they so delightfully situated?" "Yea, verily, blissfully." "Was Miss Sanford there?" "She came, alas! the very eve I hied me hence. I saw her but a moment; 'twas " "You saw her? Tell us what she's like. Is she pretty? is she sweet-mannered as they say?" "Sweet? She's sweet, aye, dix-huit; at least she was a year agone. Pretty? Ah me!"
As Missy watched this radiant being which was herself she could see that she was as gracious and sweet-mannered as she was beautiful; perhaps a bit dignified and reserved, but that is always fitting. No wonder the other girls and the boys gathered round her, captivated. All the boys were eager to dance with her, and when she danced she reminded you of a swaying lily.
"Be happy in Spring, sweet maidens all, For Autumn's chill will early fall." So sings the Minnesinger, aunty; and "A maiden in the wintry leaf Will spread her own disease of grief." I love the Minnesingers! Dear, sweet-mannered men they are! Such lovers! And men of deeds as well as song: sword on one side and harp on the other.
Then she would look at Rene in his exquisitely fresh uniform, sweet-mannered and smiling as though all war meant to him was a mere change of attire, and she would exclaim enigmatically: "What luck that you will never have to go to the front! . . . How fine that you don't run any risks!" And her lover would accept these words as but another proof of her affectionate interest.
She was terrified, nonplussed, driven to extremities for means wherewith to overcome Suzanne's opposition and suddenly but terribly developed will. No one would have dreamed that this quiet, sweet-mannered, introspective girl could be so positive, convinced and unbending when in action. She was as a fluid body that has become adamant.
"We might perhaps contrive to tide it over till she is of age," said the Solicitor-General, who was a sweet-mannered, mild man among his friends, though he could cross-examine a witness off his legs, or hers, if the necessity of the case required him to do so. "Of course we could do that, Sir William. What is a year in such a case as this?" "Not much among lawyers, is it, Mr. Flick?
She was a pretty, supple, sweet-mannered girl, and, as is the case with such girls, found it possible to worship a man whom in consistency she must have deemed the most condemnable of heretics. She and Adela were close friends; Adela indeed, had no other friend in the nearer sense. The two were made of very different fibre, but that had not as yet distinctly shown.
Wherever one looked was decoration, almost in excess. Ringlets invited us to tea with the Russian bishop who was in charge. He was a stout, sweet-mannered little man, who shook his head woefully over the war. Somehow Pavlovitch discovered that he and the bishop were the same age, forty-eight.
She was sweet-tempered, sweet-mannered, and sweet-spoken a perfect dear. She never did a "bad" thing in her life. And she never ceased from her career of moral forcing. She wrote to her husband from her mountain fastness, warning him against high-balls in hot weather.
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