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The hull disappeared slowly and dignifiedly, the ensign fluttered and vanished beneath the dark ocean I could have fancied reluctantly as if it had been drawn down through a trap door.
Mary Jane was to wear her brand new dress with the pink sash, a new one that her grandmother had sent on purpose for the party; and her new white shoes that father had given her and her new silk stockings that her great-grandmother had sent. She felt very old, and grand, and grown-up when she walked dignifiedly down the stairs and into the living room.
Now in its age the varnish is gone; the upholstery of the back seat frayed; the upholstery of the small seat lacking utterly, so that one sits on bare boards. In place of two dignifiedly spirited fat white horses, it is drawn by two very small mules in a semi-detached position far ahead. And how it rattles!
Parley's arrival until that important personage had issued from the oak grove, had traversed the brown road, and was dignifiedly stalking his flea-bitten mare through the gateway. Then Lawrence looked up, gave a sickly smile, and bade the doctor an incoherent good-morning. Dr. Parley was sombre and impressive. He seldom smiled.
Once in a while he stalked dignifiedly out of the bushes and crowed. He might do it again any minute now. The great sheet billowed and floated round Rebecca Mary, scarcely whiter than her face. She held her needle poised, waiting the signal of Thomas Jefferson. At any minute.... He was coming out now! A fleck of snow-white was pricking the green of the currant leaves. "He's out.
Luck, his pulse thrilling at the once familiar gesture which his tribal "father," old chief Big Turkey, used to give when he came stalking up for his daily confab with his adopted son, gave back the sign with a hand that trembled noticeably. Whereupon the Indian on the farther rim turned and began dignifiedly to climb through a rift in the ledge down into the Frying-pan.
"'Twere as honest to say that he that was trait'rous to his king was trait'rous to his country," said Mistress Thankful with sudden audacity, bending her knit brows on Lady Washington. But that lady turned dignifiedly away, and Mistress Thankful again faced the general. "I ask your pardon," she said proudly, "for troubling you with my wrongs.
But he only fixed his malevolent eye on Gashwiler and said: "So he is gone, eh?" "Yes." "And you've made an enemy of him? That's bad." Mr. Gashwiler tried to look dignifiedly unconcerned; but something in his visitor's manner made him uneasy. "I say it is bad, if you have. Listen.
"Cousin Roger," said she, "I was very angry last night; and I wished to tell you I was sorry for that, and for the hard words I used, before you went away." I bowed my head very dignifiedly. "And I, too," I said, "must ask your pardon for so taking you by surprise. I thought " and then I ceased. She had looked a little white and tired, I thought; but she flushed again with anger when I said that.
We've just got to stand 'em off." He threw down and back the lever of his old 44 Winchester, and softly uncocked the arm. Then he sat down by Miss Caldwell. From various directions, silently, warriors on horseback sprang into sight and moved dignifiedly toward the first-comer, forming at the last a band of perhaps thirty men.
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