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She had long felt it to be countrified in the extreme to wear the mild compromises towards evening-dress which she and most of the State University girls adopted, as compared with the frankly disclosing gowns of the "town girls" whose clothes came from Chicago and New York.
Lane was listening appreciatively, now and then exchanging a remark with the lawyer across the table. John Lane had that solid acquaintance with life which made him at home in almost all circumstances. If he felt as she did, hopelessly countrified, he would never betray it. Presently the conversation got to politics, the President, the situation at Albany.
A match is thought countrified, uncivilized, in bad style, and to be protested against by all matrons, if the husband should forbid his wife to appear in public in a litter, and to be carried about exposed to the gaze of all observers.
'Cadurcis' last poem! said Lady Annabel; 'do you mean Lord Cadurcis? Is he a poet? 'To he sure! Well, you are countrified not to know Lord Cadurcis! 'I know him very well, said Lady Annabel, gravely; 'but I did not know he was a poet.
Then Scipio's bleached blue eyes narrowed to a slit, and he said what they had all come out on the street to say: "Don't change your clothes." "Oh!" protested Molly, "isn't he rather dusty and countrified?" But the Virginian had taken Scipio's meaning.
"Ah, that sounds very amiable here; but in five minutes you'll be murmuring in Miss Bandoline's earm 'I've been pining to come to you this half hour, but I was obliged to take out that Miss Wilder, you see countrified little thing enough, but not bad-looking, and has a rich aunt; so I've done my duty to her, but deuse take me if I can stand it any longer." Mr.
Leavitt, all dolled up as correct as any cotillion leader, balancin' his silk tile graceful on one wrist, and strokin' his close-cropped mustache with his white glove, just as Mrs. Humphry Ward describes on page 147. "Well!" gasps Sadie. "I thought you said they were a pair of countrified freaks!" "You should have seen 'em when they landed with the pies," says I. And, if you'll believe me, Mr.
His horse is nearly as big as an elephant, and he rides splendidly. I think you would like Jim," she said shyly. "I am sure I should!" said Margaret heartily. "Who comes next?" "George," said Peggy. "George isn't very nice, I think; I don't believe you'd like him. He has been to college, you know, and he sneers and makes fun of the rest of us, and calls us countrified."
Lucy, in spite of her brocade skirt and handsome gown of blue velvet tucked up over it, was still devoid of any look of distinction, but was a round- faced, blooming, cheerful maiden, of that ladylike thoroughly countrified type happily frequent in English girlhood throughout all time.
The men took off their socks and went to the shoemaker's to buy wooden shoes instead. Then they set out, the nets over their shoulders and creels on their backs. Mme. Rosemilly was very sweet in this costume, with an unexpected charm of countrified audacity.
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