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Should she be seen at Newport driving two gentlemen in her pony-phaeton, or should she and another young woman take a gentleman between them and drive down Bellevue Avenue, she would be tabooed. It would not be a wicked act, but it would not look well; it would not be convenable. If she dresses "loudly," with peculiar hats and a suspicious complexion, she must take the consequences.
Betty rose composedly from the pompous red velour couch that ran along the wall under a portrait of a gentleman that looked like a Philip of Spain, but was really Dick's maternal great grandfather. "Why, Betty," Dick said, "this isn't convenable unless you have a chaperon somewhere concealed. We don't do things like this." "I do," Betty said. "I wanted to see you, so I came.
This lady was ordered to give up her charge to the guardianship of Sir Rudolph; but she refused to do so, saying that it would not be convenable for a young lady to be under the guardianship of a bachelor knight having no lady at the head of his establishment, and that therefore she should retain her, in spite of the orders of the prince.
He considered that there was no harm in the lad, rather a commendable sort of courage and some notion of manners; allowing for his ignorance of the convenable in putting out his hand to take a young lady's, with the plea of thanking her. He hoped she would be more on her guard. Carinthia was sure she had the name of the nobleman wishing to bestow his title upon the beautiful Henrietta.
"I said that Madame understands perfectly." "Why do you want to leave?" The Frenchman drew himself up tragically. "I can no longer serve Madame: it is not convenable to my dignity." "What's hurtin' your dignity?" "It is not for me to cook for a lot of babies, and and a nigger baby." Drusilla looked at him silently for a moment. "Um-um I see," she said.
"C'est convenable, j'espère hein?" she murmurs, and her bald-headed cicisbeo, who has taken possession of her sheet, hastens to assure her that all is well. Whereupon, her doubts thus happily set at rest, she wades out to the diving-board, mounts it leisurely, stands poised for an instant at the outermost end, and then dives gracefully into the expectant billows.
She was going by a night train from the Gare de Lyon, and sternly refused to let Madame Dépine see her off. "And how would you go back an old woman, alone in these dark November nights, with the papers all full of crimes of violence? It is not convenable, either."
"C'etait une dame très convenable," said one purveyor, and the others agreed. "Elle me paya écus sonnants," said another, "et toujours sans marchander." There was even present a more distinguished acquaintance of the past: a long-retired Commissaire de Police of the Quartier in which Mrs. Warren's hotel was situated.
"I am not accustomed to `screech' about anything, and in this country, my dear, it is not considered convenable for young girls to accept the escort of a gentleman to whom they are not engaged. No English girl would think of doing such a thing!" "They must have a middling dull time of it," retorted Cornelia, calmly, "I must teach them a thing or two while I'm over."
However, he consoled himself with the thought of the "impression," which was indescribable, which he believed himself to make upon all female hearts: and, besides, there was a good deal in the habit he had, just because he was so short-sighted, of placing himself in a closer proximity to ladies with whom he was conversing, than might have been considered altogether convenable, a species of innocent pushingness, belonging to the "genial" character, so as to be sure not to make any mistakes with reference to the person he was addressing; a matter which had more than once been productive of annoyance.
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