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It was a singular, and perhaps, to our modern ears, a most unladylike proposal; but it shows how, even in the heart of a sovereign countess and a girl general, warlike desires may give place to gentler thoughts. To the Lord Arkell, however, this unexpected proposition came as an indication of weakness. "My lady countess fears to face my determined followers," he thought.
Talbert's mother, who lives with them, in an anxiety for their health which would impair her own if she were not of a constitution such as you do not find in these days of unladylike athletics.
I always fancied, indeed, that Eliza was in a thoroughly housewifely tantrum at seeing her nice new web so ruthlessly torn and tattered by the unwelcome visitor, and that she said to herself in her own language: 'Oh well, then, if you will have it, you shall have it; so here goes for you. And go for him she did, with most unladylike ferocity.
Not much, my Mary Anne!" "Ethelyn!" said her mother, reprovingly, "how many times must I tell you not to use slang? It is vulgar and unladylike, and quite out of keeping with your social position." "I don't care; it's expressive if it isn't stylish." "Don't say stylish, either. That isn't genteel at all. Say 'correct."
There was a pause; then the speaker went on in an altered tone: "D'you suppose she has forgotten all her native accomplishments, Tom? I wonder if she can still ride and rope and shoot, or if those thin-blooded Eastern schoolma'ams have taught her that such things are unladylike and coarse." "Pshaw! You never forget how to do those things."
"Maud Vernon! what an absurd idea; he would be wretched with her." "Then," with a last remnant of patience, "let us say Lilian Langdale." "A fast, horsey, unladylike girl like that! How could you imagine Roger would even look at her! Nonsense!" "It seems to me," says Stephen, with extreme acrimony, "that no one in this county is good enough for Roger; even you, it appears, fell short."
"The Anti-Jane Society" would sound well, she insisted. Or, no! the "Put-him-down-Club" was better yet! Finally they settled upon "The Society for the Suppression of Unladylike Conduct." "Only we'll never use the whole name," said Rose: "We'll say, 'The S. S .U. C. That sounds brisk and snappy, and will drive the whole school wild with curiosity. What larks! How I long to begin!"
The possibility of an expedition of ladies now struck Seymour vividly, and said he: 'I 'll be secretary'; and began applying to the ladies for permission to put down their names. Many declined, with brevity, muttering, either aloud or to themselves, 'unwomanly'; varied by 'unladylike': some confessed cowardice; some a horror of the noise close to their ears; and there was the plea of nerves.
And then deliberately turning from me and assuming a most unladylike attitude, she slapped herself vigorously on the small of the back, exclaiming: "Because of my pain here!" As she continued in that position with her back towards me for some time, I laughed once more and begged her to explain. Slowly she turned round and advanced cautiously towards me, staring at me all the time.
I want my wife's hand to be kept for me to hold; I don't thank anybody else for doing that part for me." "Precisely!" Marion said. "It is considered unladylike, I believe, for people to talk about love and marriage. I never could see why; I'm sure neither of them is wicked. But I suppose each of us occasionally thinks of the possibility of having a friend as dear even as a husband.
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