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The girls were very lively and bright, spoke in loud voices, and behaved as if they had lived in the house all their lives, which is supposed to be good manners nowadays. Margot Sanders is tall and fair, and wears eye-glasses, and Mary Eversley, who is "Lady Mary," would have been considered very unladylike indeed at our polite seminary.
She thanked him with a new shyness, and taking the cumbrous emblem of her inferiority over her left arm, held out her strong hard little right hand to him. "Don't think it horrid of me to have stayed," she pleaded. "It was that I so wanted you to win ... I was afraid ..." "It was very very unladylike," began Ishmael, then paused.
Some thought it unladylike for the young maidens to take part in a competition which must attract many lookers-on, and which it seemed to them very hoidenish to venture upon. Some said it was a shame to let a crew of girls try their strength against an equal number of powerful young men. These objections were offset by the advocates of the race by the following arguments.
Even the temptation of annexing the pencil is removed from your frail humanity. You mark your ballot, and drop it in the box, and come out into the sunlight again. If you had never heard that you had done an unladylike thing you would not know it. It all felt solemn, and serious, and very respectable to you, something like a Sunday-school convention.
So Gillian met him in the General's sitting-room, gasping as she turned the handle of the door. He set a chair for her, and spoke gravely. "My dear," he said, "I find you have gained the heart of a good man." "I am sure I never meant it," half whispered Gillian. "What is that- you never meant it? I never supposed you capable of such an unladylike design. You mean that you were taken by surprise?"
She protested as strongly as she could, without upsetting her equanimity, for to go beyond that she felt was unladylike and bad for both nerves and digestion. It was a grief for her to see Gloria actually working with anyone, much less Philip, whose theories were quite upsetting, and who, after all, was beyond the pale of their social sphere and was impossible as a son-in-law.
And, as for the fancy that it becomes a more conspicuous and unladylike matter to stand up for the Lord Jesus Christ, than it does to stand up for anything else under the sun; Satan was much too wise, and knew his material entirely too well, to suggest any such absurdity to them. Flossy had been the only one of their number in the least likely to be swayed by such arguments.
The upper class of Englishmen, and more especially women, are accustomed to find throughout their acquaintance an almost identical style and set of manners. Anything which differs from this they are apt to regard as "ungentlemanlike or unladylike," and shun accordingly.
Muscular exercises, gymnastic performances, and health-giving exertion, are unladylike, forsooth! Do you recommend household work as a means of health for my daughter? Decidedly: whatever you do, do not make a fine lady of her, or she will become puny and delicate, listless, and miserable. A girl, let her station be what it might, ought, as soon as she be old enough, to make her own bed.
As a matter of fact, Robin has hardly said a word to me on the subject of women since first I met him." Kitty thoughtfully cracked a filbert with her teeth an unladylike habit about which I have often spoken to her and said "What exciting chats you must have!" Then she added reflectively "I expect it's a girl in Scotland. A sort of Highland lassie, in a kilt, or whatever female Highlanders wear."
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