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In spite of the severity, or even rudeness, of her reproaches, Dieppe fell more and more in love with her every moment. At last he could not resist a sly reference to their previous encounter. She raised innocent eyes to his. "I saw the door was open, but I did n't notice anybody there," she said with irreproachable demureness. The Captain looked at her for a moment, then he began to laugh.
Peter McGuffie, commonly called the Sparrow, or in Scotch tongue "Speug," and one of the two heads of our commonwealth, used to wait with an expression of such demureness that it ought to have been a danger signal till Bulldog was halfway down the stair, and a row of boys were standing in expectation with their backs to the forbidden place.
'Your friend up stairs, Sir, intended playing the lady for the rest of her days, answered M. M., with a cat-like demureness, sly and cruel, 'at my cost and to my sorrow. For twenty long years, or nigh hand it, she has lived with my husband, consuming my substance, and keeping me in penury.
A woman sexually well mated often clings beyond reason to an unworthy mate. Many an inexplicable marriage, many a fantastic loyalty of a good woman to a bad man has its origin where it is least expected, in the sex attachment. Demureness of appearance, refinement of manner, noble ideals are not at all inconsistent with powerful sex feeling.
The company began to break up. Orde pushed his broad shoulders in to screen Carroll Bishop from the others. "Are you staying here?" he asked. She opened her eyes wide at his brusqueness. "I'm visiting Jane," she replied at length, with an affectation of demureness. "Are you going to be here long?" was Orde's next question. "About a month." "I am coming to see you," announced Orde. "Good-night."
"I've got to have a secretary, and I'd rather trust my private business to my own daughter than to any one else. It's safe with her." It was so safe with her steady demureness that Hutchinson found himself becoming steady himself.
"Nay, good my lord, nay," returned Sibyll, shaking her head with thoughtful demureness. "Surely the wooer, if he love worthily, will not press her to the curse of a child's disobedience and a parent's wrath!" "Shrewdly answered," said the dame of Longueville. "Then she would renounce the poor gentleman if the parent ordain her to marry a rich lord.
When the proofs arrived, it was found that all that delightful uncouthness of visage which is Chum's chief charm, all that fascinating ferocity which makes him a thing of ugliness and a joy for ever, had vanished refined away, idealised into a demureness as of domestic tabby, a platitudinarian peacefulness nay, a sort of beauty!
She was often demure, but behind that demureness was firmness: she was mistress of herself, and yet possessed a marvellous vitality. "And now," said Cynthia, "don't you think you had better go?" Go! He laughed outright. Never! He would sit down under that fortress, and some day he meant to scale the walls. Like John Paul Jones, he had not yet begun to fight.
Falkirk, 'what will you do? Hazel glanced up at him from under her eyelashes. 'Wait, sir. I am learning to wait, beautifully! she answered with great demureness. 'Then suppose I go and tell Mrs. Saddler about my room? 'Go along, said Mr. Falkirk. 'Give your orders. You had better send up to the house for some furniture. You'll make Mrs. Saddler happy at any rate. I am not so sure about Gotham.
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