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Updated: May 16, 2025
But although her new ideas upon the subject of 'Anstand' or good behaviour prevented her getting the better of Steadman by foul means, she was all the more intent upon having her own way by fair means, now that the impression of the old man's sadness and solitude had been renewed by the sight of the drooping figure by the sundial.
There was something less of refinement, perhaps, and Fräulein remonstrated now and then about some small violation of the unwritten laws of 'Anstand, but there was more mirth. Maulevrier felt for the first time as if he were master at Fellside. They all went to the billiard room soon after dinner, and Fräulein and Mary sat by the fire looking on, while the two young men played.
Fräulein Müller suggested that it was in just such weather as this that a well brought up young lady, a young lady with Vernunft and Anstand, should devote herself to the improvement of her mind. 'Let us read German this abscheulich afternoon, said the Fräulein. 'Suppose we go on with the "Sorrows of Werther." 'Werther was a fool, cried Mary; 'any book but that.
And yet I don't wish that either, for I am intensely proud of you. 'And some day, before we are much older, you will sit in your robes in the peeress's gallery. 'Oh, I couldn't, cried Mary. 'I should make a fool of myself, somehow. I should look like a housemaid in borrowed plumes. Remember, I have no Anstand I have been told so all my life.
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