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I rose, and courtesied, saying, I would attend his honour; and he said, Do, good girl! Well, said Mrs. Jewkes, I see how things will go. O, madam, as she called me again, I am sure you are to be our mistress! And then I know what will become of me. Ah Mrs. Jewkes, said I, if I can but keep myself virtuous, 'tis the most of my ambition; and I hope, no temptation shall make me otherwise.
The little monster approached the king, and courtesied to him with so serious an air that Bizarre could not help laughing, though he felt little like it. "Who are you?" asked he, chucking the child under the chin.
"I have heard my brother speak of Larry Glass," said Jean, graciously. Mr. Glass courtesied awkwardly, and swinging his right foot back of his left, tapped the floor with his toe. "You were a trainer at Yale when Jack was there?" "That's me," Mr. Glass wheezed. "I'm there with the big rub, too.
He doffed his Spanish hat with a bow and flourish: Betty courtesied profoundly. "Welcome to Rosemead, your Excellency." "I greet you well, pretty Mistress Betty," said the Governor, and took a governor's privilege. Mr.
I was so surprised at his goodness, that I could not tell what to say. I courtesied to him, and to Mrs. Jervis for her good word; and said, I wished I might be deserving of his favour, and her kindness: and nothing should be wanting in me, to the best of my knowledge. O how amiable a thing is doing good! It is all I envy great folks for.
"Do you mind, Ursula, what the Prophet Daniel saith, that `many shall be purified and made white'? Methinks it is going on now. White, as no fuller on earth can white them! May you and I be so cleansed, friend! Good den." Ursula courtesied and escaped, and Mr Ewring passed through the gate, and went up to his desolated home.
At cross-roads and plantation gates the colored people thronged to see us pass; every one found a friend and a greeting. "How you do, aunty?" In return, venerable, kerchiefed matrons courtesied laboriously to every one, with an unfailing "Bress de Lord, budder."
She was a good-looking old body, about sixty, perhaps, but tall and straight enough for all queenly purposes. She arose and shook hands with us, and then stepped into her door-way and courtesied. The effect was very fine. "This is dreadful!" said Corny. "She ought to give up this pepper-pod business right away. If I could only talk to her, I'd make her understand.
"How do you do, Willie?" continued Emma, as the children, each carrying a basket of berries, drew nearer. "Very well, thank you," said Willie, taking off his hat; and the little girl courtesied, without lifting her eyes from the ground. "We are going over to see your mother," said Emma.
Each lady's name was then announced and as she was formally presented she ascended the dais, and as she courtesied, the Empress Dowager extended her hand which she took, and then passed to the left to be introduced in a similar way to the Emperor.
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