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Not that Joanna could really bring herself to believe that Ellen was truthful in saying she did not care about the show, but she thought it possible that sheer contrariness might keep her away. Ellen was wearing her darkest, demurest clothes, in emphatic contrast to the ribbons and laces in which Brodnyx and Pedlinge usually went to the fair.
When he got to Cottesmore Gardens, and was actually at the door of the Futvoyes' house, one of the neatest and demurest in that retired and irreproachable quarter, he began to feel a craven hope that the Professor might be out, in which case he need only leave the catalogue and write a letter when he got home, reporting his non-success at the sale, and returning the note.
Beetle opened the book on the table, ran his finger down a page, and began at random: "Or who in Moscow toward the Czar With the demurest of footfalls, Over the Kremlin's pavement white With serpentine and syenite, Steps with five other generals " "That's no good. Try another," said Stalky. "Hold on a shake; I know what's coming." McTurk was reading over Beetle's shoulder.
She shrugged as delicately as she could: 'We cannot possibly please everybody in life. 'No: only we may spare them a shock: mayn't we? 'Sophistries of any description, I detest. 'But sometimes you smile to please, don't you? 'Do you detect falseness in that? she answered, after the demurest of pauses. 'No: but isn't there a soupcon of sophistry in it?
Yes," he pursued, "I have seen her rancours, her vanities, her levities not only here, but elsewhere: I have witnessed what bucklers me against all her arts: I am safe from poor Zelie." "And my pupils," he presently recommenced, "those blondes jeunes filles so mild and meek I have seen the most reserved romp like boys, the demurest snatch grapes from the walls, shake pears from the trees.
"Come in and arrange details," urged Mr. Warne. Georgiana stayed behind a minute to compose her face and manner, then went in, the demurest of young housewives. Not for nothing had been her years of college life, which had made, when occasion demanded, a quietly poised woman out of a girl who had been, according to village standards, a somewhat hoydenish young person.
From the yard the singer could not be seen, but Julia could be: she stood in the demurest attitude; and no one needed to behold the vocalist to know that the scoundrel was looking pointedly and romantically at her. "Dee-urra-face that holds soswee tasmile for me, Wairyew nah tmine how darrrk the worrrl dwooed be!"
"I should think," finally remarked George, "that such an old folks' party would afford a chance for some pretty careful study, and some rather good acting." "Fifty years will make us all not far from seventy. What shall we look like then, I wonder?" musingly asked Mary Fellows. She was the demurest, dreamiest of the three girls; the most of a woman, and the least of a talker.
On this occasion she refused one dish after another with a resolution which implied the rarest of all modern martyrdoms gastric martyrdom. "I have conceived the part of Lucy," she observed, with the demurest gravity. "The next difficulty is to make Frank conceive the part of Falkland. I see nothing to laugh at you would all be serious enough if you had my responsibilities.
James was inaudible, that many heard him perfectly that night in the Propylæum who had always thought Balzac the name of a tooth-powder. Mrs. Owen's family, the Singletons, had crossed the Ohio into Hoosier territory along in the fifties, in time for Sally to have been a student not the demurest from all accounts at Indiana Female College. Mrs.
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