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Updated: June 27, 2025
Lord Beverdale contented himself with rallying his fair guest on the becomingness of "good works." But he continued, "You're offering a dreadful example to these ladies, Miss Desborough, and I know I shall never hereafter be able to content them with any frivolous morning amusement at the Priory. For myself, when I am grown gouty and hideous, I know I shall bloom again as a district visitor."
There was the sound of many voices; small boys, scarcely out of pinafores, discussed with a surprising amount of knowledge the merits of the individual dogs and the capabilities of their drivers; little girls donned ribbons with a sportsman-like disregard of their "becomingness" to show a preference which might be based either on a personal fondness for a driver or owner, or a loving interest in some particular dog.
Of course, he says, there are considerations of modesty, of becomingness, of regard to the feelings of others with equal or greater claims than himself, which bind a convert as they bind any one who has just gained admission into a society of his fellow men. He has no business "to pick and choose," and to set himself up as a judge of everything in his new position.
The two women were nearly the same height and size; and although Teresa's maturer figure accented the outlines more strongly, it was still becoming enough to increase his irritation. Of this becomingness she was doubtless unaware at the moment that he surprised her. She was conscious of having "a change," and this had emboldened her to "do her hair" and otherwise compose herself.
"I think I will go, after all," she said virtuously, and Judy, not knowing her motive, looked at her with envy. "You are a good little thing, Anne," she said, and at the praise Anne's face flamed. She dressed hurriedly, in her one white dress, with a sigh for the becomingness of the blue kimona. When she was ready to tie on her old hat, she went to the mirror.
"Isn't that the prettiest thing you ever saw?" she asked, glancing at him over her shoulder. "It is," said Percival, emphatically. His judgment about the becomingness of the color had, us usual, been unerring. "I should be no end grateful," he said, "if you'd take it off my hands. My trunks are fearfully stuffed now."
Three people may occupy the same pew in a church; the one can tell you all about the music, the second the good points in the sermon, and the third the style and becomingness of the bonnets and dresses. Each one sees what he has in his own mind. A teacher describes Yosemite Valley to a geography class.
Her stove-burned face and print gown do not delude him as to her real position. Furthermore and this hint is directed sidewise at our "model" a sense of the incongruity between the fine courtesy of her husband's manner, and of slovenly attire upon the object of his attentions would incite her to neatness and becomingness in dress.
"I think you could make me approve of anything you do," he said, as he rose in obedience to her invitation to light his cigar. "Some people have the grace of becomingness; they adorn all they touch." "What a magnificent compliment! I will immediately put it to the test," said Cynthia lightly. She had also risen, and was examining a little silver box on the mantelpiece.
Even her most intimate women friends kept their claws sheathed and that, despite the undeniable becomingness of the dyed hair. "We only got back to town last night," she said, returning Penelope's salute with fervour. "So I flew round this morning to see how you two were getting on. I can't think how you've managed without the advantage of my counsels for three whole months!"
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