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Next sat "Vivie" Cass, whose talk was of horses and dogs and such ungirlish matters; Hal had discussed social questions in her presence, and heard her view expressed in one flashing sentence "If a man eats with his knife, I consider him my personal enemy!"
"Now, what's up?" exclaimed Mabel. "It must be very bad. He never calls you 'dearest; unless it's awfully bad. Does he, Kitty?" "No," said Catherine. "Poor mother," she added then, and she gave a profound and most ungirlish sigh. "Why, Catherine, you have been grumbling at mother all day! You have been feeling so cross about her." "You never will understand, Mabel!
I have often felt that lately." "Yes," she said. Her eyes were bent on him with a scrutiny that was nearly ungirlish. Maurice tried not to see it as he put his fingers on her wrist. She added: "I have felt that about you too." Maurice had taken out his watch.
After that, as the days went on, Rose Otway began to wear a most ungirlish look of strain and of suspense; but no one, to her secret relief, perceived that she looked any different all the sympathy of the Close was concentrated on Edith Haworth, for it was known that the cavalry had been terribly cut up.
It was only for a moment or two, of course, that he lost his presence of mind; then he pulled himself together and raised his cap. She gave him the very slightest of bows. It was the faintest indication only of response to his salute; her eyes rested on his face with a strange, ungirlish calm, then wandered to the last trout which lay on the bank.
Once more Spence was reduced to passive waiting. But the taste of the salt and the smell of it brought back the picture of Desire as he had seen her first strong, self-confident. He had thought these qualities ungirlish at the time; now he thanked God for the memory of them. It had been dark enough when they left the wharf but soon a soft brightness grew.
Honor was the only daughter she had, the only daughter she would ever have, for she had definitely decided, at forty-one, to cease her dealings with the long-legged bird who had flapped six times to her roof, and it seemed intolerable to her that with five boys her one girl should be so robustly ungirlish. "Now, then, let's have it. You want Honor to go to Marlborough.
Thérèse glanced up from her lace work and nodded, hoping in a formal and quite ungirlish manner that she would be happy with them. Rose sat down beside her, and looked at the lace. There were pins stuck in a cushion and Thérèse threw her thread over this one and that one. How queer it looked. "But if you should go wrong?" she inquired. "Here is the pattern. This is quite simple.
She had shown a quite ungirlish eagerness to manage them for herself; in the midst of her profusion she had odd accesses of stinginess, in which she fancied herself coming to poverty; and her guardian judged it best that she should have a lawyer who could tell her at any moment just where she stood.
Priscilla at seventeen had not been very different from Priscilla at twenty-two. She had a pale, handsome, ungirlish face a Minerva face steady, grave, handsome eyes, and a fine head, unadorned, save with a classic knot of black brown hair. The picture was not even younger-looking than Priscilla was now. Miss Elizabeth regarded it in affectionate admiration of its beauty.
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