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Alone in his room, he may enact for you scenes of flowery grace and most capricious gallantry, rehearsals as unconscious as the curtsies of field daisies in a breeze. He has neither doubt nor certainty of his charm; he has no arithmetic at all, and is often so free of calculation that he does not even pull down the shades at his windows.
Between more serious thoughts Ruth wondered if any one in Port Nassau would recognise her. The hostess of the Bowling Green did not, but came to the door and dropped curtsies to her, as to a grand lady. She startled Ruth, however, by respectfully asking her name. Ruth, who had forgotten to provide against this, had a happy inspiration. "I am Miss Ruth," she said.
Mary Mason and I were going to drive out with my lady in her coach, and when we went down stairs with our best hats and cloaks on, we found Mr. Gray awaiting my lady's coming. Medlicott told us, had caused my lady to be not over well pleased with him. He blushed redder than ever at the sight of us, as we entered the hall and dropped him our curtsies.
Miss Godden, she might impart them to us," said the Squire from a little farther down. "She's learning how to dance and make curtsies right down to the floor," said Joanna. "Then she's fit to see the Queen. You really mustn't keep her away from us at Christmas on the contrary, we ought to make some opportunities for watching her dance; she must be as pretty as a sprite."
My first lesson was how to walk and make a curtsey. "Young lady, if you visit the queen you must make three curtsies, lower and lower and lower as you approach her. So o o," leading me on and making me curtsey. "Now, if the queen were to ask you to eat a bit of mutton with her, what would you say?"
The Queen also stood, and at the end gave three curtsies. On Friday Captain and Mrs. Wormeley, with Miss Wormeley, dined with us, with Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle, Miss Murray, the Maid of Honor, Mr. and Mrs. Pell of New York, with William T. and Mr. Brodhead. William was very glad to see Carlyle, who showed himself off to perfection, uttering his paradoxes in broad Scotch. Last evening we dined at Mr.
'Lady Langdale, you know, sets an inordinate value upon her curtsies in public, and she used to treat Miss Nugent, as her ladyship treats many other people, sometimes noticing, and sometimes pretending not to know her, according to the company she happened to be with. One day they met in some fine company Lady Langdale looked as if she was afraid of committing herself by a curtsy.
On turning a corner of a street, by good luck we meet our married comrades of the Triomphante and Jonquille, Touki-San and Campanule! Bows and curtsies are exchanged by the mousmés, reciprocal manifestations of joy at meeting; then, forming a compact band, we are carried off by the ever-increasing crowd and continue our progress in the direction of the temple.
The mother herself was a gorgeous tulip; she took no notice whatever of the crowd, who all stopped in their game to drop their curtsies and make their bows; one might have thought that, like a tulip, she was rather frail in the stalk and feared to bend her back. The rose, the lily, and the pale hyacinth yes, I saw them all three.
"An old lady in a black dress and a cap, who curtsies up and down, and expresses herself ever so well." "An old lady who curtsies and expresses herself?... Ah, you mean poor Mrs. Bread. I happen to know that you have made a conquest of her." "Mrs. Cake, she ought to be called," said Newman. "She is very sweet. She is a delicious old woman." Madame de Cintre looked at him a moment.
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