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As we stood for a minute, waiting for Mr. Kenge, a curious little old woman, Miss Flite, in a squeezed bonnet, and carrying a reticule, came curtsying and smiling up to us, with an air of great ceremony. "Oh!" said she, "The wards in Jarndyce. Very happy, I am sure, to have the honour.
Madame Flamingo, flanked right and left by twelve colored gentlemen, who, their collars decorated with white and pink rosettes, officiate as masters of ceremony, and form a crescent in front of the thronging procession, steps gradually backward, curtsying and bowing, and spreading her hands to her guests, after the manner of my Lord Chamberlain.
Tarns," said Rachel calmly. "She mustn't come in now," Louis protested. "Come in, Mrs. Tams," Rachel repeated decisively. And Mrs. Tams entered, curtsying towards the bed. "What is it?" Rachel asked her. "It's the greengrocer's cart, ma'am." The greengrocer usually did send round on Saturday mornings. "I'll go down. Just clear up that washstand, will you?"
For an instant fierce rebellion spoke through flashing eyes, stern-set lips, and tightly clutched fingers; then all the light died from the thin old face and the tense muscles relaxed. "You may put the baby back," said Madam Wetherby tremulously, yet with a sudden dignity that set the maid to curtsying. "I I should not want to cross my daughter's wishes."
To see that woman bowing and scraping and curtsying to Father Barney, and she his own mother's brother's daughter, was the best thing in the world." "That was just to do him honour before the quality, you know." "Exactly. When I went in, there was nobody there but his reverence and Master Herbert." "As thick as possible, I suppose. Dear, dear; isn't it dreadful!
Annie had grown into a woman in three years, and he was still a boy. She came into the kitchen, curtsying and smiling. "Good-day, Master Lucian, and how is Mr. Taylor, sir?" "Pretty well, thank you. I hope you are well." "Nicely, sir, thank you. How nice your voice do sound in church, Master Lucian, to be sure. I was telling father about it last Sunday."
The ragged paper cover of one of these last, bore on its inner side a grotesquely imperfect inscription: my cop book zo. He tore off the cover, and put it in the breast pocket of his coat. "I should have liked to tickle her once more," he thought, as he went down stairs again. The polite old woman opened the door, curtsying deferentially. He gave her half a crown.
"Who is that?" cried Marcus "Peggy Sheridan, as I live! is it not?" "No, please your honour, but Peggy Sheridan that was Peggy Carroll that is," said Peggy, curtsying, with a slight blush, and an arch smile. "So, you have married that Moriarty at last." "I have, please your honour he is a very honest boy and I'm very happy if your honour's pleased."
Angelina, with a mixture of impatience and confusion, repeated, "Excuse me, sir I am going I interrupt I beg I may not interrupt." "A coot morrow to you all, creat and small," said Betty Williams, curtsying awkwardly at the door as she went out before Miss Warwick. The young ladies were now diverted so much beyond the bounds of decorum, that Mrs. Porett was obliged to call them to order.
"Ah! that is another matter," said the judge. "Call Eliza Gullick," said the counsel. Eliza was called, and in a moment was curtsying, with eagerness, but perfect self-possession. After displaying an almost technical appreciation of the nature of an oath, Eliza was asked: "You remember the night of the 7th of February?" "I remember it very well, sir." "Why do you remember it so well, Eliza?"
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