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His happy conscience enabled him to court his wife with assiduity and winsomeness, and the ladies were once more elated by seeing how chivalrously lover-like an Irish gentleman can be after years of wedlock. Patrick was asked to sing. Miss Mattock accompanied him at the piano. Then he took her place on the music-stool, and she sang, and with an electrifying splendour of tone and style.
He had always been kind to her, and she understood now from his manner that he meant to be still kinder. It occurred to her at once that he knew of George's infatuation for Florrie, and that he was chivalrously extending to George's wife a sympathy which he would probably have withheld in such circumstances from his own.
The sentiment of this was so agreeable to him that he was half thinking of raising her hand chivalrously to his lips when Lady Pippinworth said: "But if it is all over now, why have you still to walk me off?" "Have you never had to walk me off?" said Tommy, forgetting himself, and, to his surprise, she answered, "Yes." "But this meeting has cured me," she said, with dangerous graciousness.
In a flash the man of action, brisk and curt, had taken the place of the comrade chivalrously admitting a mistake. "Then I must trouble you to fetch the key of the powder-magazine, and to follow me." He clapped on his cocked hat. The great man turned swiftly. "One moment, my lord," and he was gone. There was a rush up the companion-ladder, and the noise of running feet on the deck overhead.
I'll show you my few belongings after tea. Now will you go upstairs first or have tea first?" "Just as you say," beamed Mrs. Witherspoon. "Perhaps I had better run up and take off my veil." "Whichever you prefer," he replied chivalrously. "Do exactly as you like. Tea will be ready in a couple of minutes." "Then I think I'll run up." "Very well. Bibby, show Mrs. Witherspoon " "Very good, sir.
He could have told the magistrates so, in part apology for the circumstances dragging him the other day, so recently, before his Worship; and he might have told it, if he had not remembered Captain Dartrey Fenellan's words about treating women chivalrously which was interpreted by Skepsey as correcting them, when called upon to do it, but never exposing them only, if allowed to account for the circumstances pushing us into the newspapers, we should not present so guilty a look before the public.
No explanation is offered of why we are afflicted; we have simply offended, or some one absent has offended, and we are handy. The spiteful hag of power ties a wife to us; perhaps for the reason, that we behaved in the spirit of a better time by being chivalrously honourable. Wives are just as inexplicable curses, just as ineradicable and astonishing as humps imposed on shapely backs.
In true love the cross is borne by both the lovers, and the one who "chivalrously" wishes to bear it alone, only cheats the other of part of his best possession.
Cynthia had not much enjoyed her dance. The dazzling, the unfair ascendency of youth, as embodied in Helena, had been rather more galling than usual; and the "sittings out" she had arranged with Philip during the supper dances had been all cancelled by her sister's tiresome attack. Julian Horne, who generally got on with her, chivalrously moved his seat near to her, and tried to talk.
With a wail "Ah, Dios mio, mi ropa!" About this time the American men began to arrive on the scene, and though they would not permit us to return to the house, they chivalrously rescued Ceferiana's possessions as well as mine. The lady who lived with me had some time before discharged a servant for a cause which we others considered not very just.
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