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"I thought you liked him, dear," said Mrs. Davilow, timidly. "So I do, mamma, as liking goes. There is less to dislike about him than about most men. He is quiet and distingué."
Excavations were in progress for the blast-furnace and accessory buildings, and developed a strange formation. The entire mesa seems built up of boulders packed together with a sort of alkali clay, dry and hard as stone, and looking, as our distingué guide remarked, as though not a drop of water had penetrated five feet from the surface since the time of the Flood.
At the door of this magic chamber Vane trembled and half wished he could retire. They entered; his apprehension gave way to disappointment, she was not there. Collecting himself, he was presently introduced to a smart, jaunty, and, to do him justice, distingue old beau. This was Colley Cibber, Esq., poet laureate, and retired actor and dramatist, a gentleman who is entitled to a word or two.
I have already got the black silk, and Miss Macgregor, in the Parade you know what a fashionable dressmaker she is is making it up. I shall, of course, wear my widow's bonnet, as it looks so distingué, and Mrs. Sweat, the milliner in the High Street, is making up a new one, most stylish. "I can add no more now. My heart goes pit-a-pat. When you receive this I shall be packing for my journey.
Thenceforward Caroline is willing to go to the opera, she accepts two seats in a box, but she considers it very distingue to eat sparingly, and declines the dainty dinners of her husband. "My dear," she says, "a well-bred woman should not go often to these places; you may go once for a joke; but as for making a habitual thing of it fie, for shame!"
She was slender, and surely must have had some hidden wings, else it were impossible she could have fluttered as she did upon those symmetrical feet. Her face was fine and distingué, her eyes artful and brilliant; her lips were endowed with such gifts already not merely of speaking four or five languages such silent gifts as brought me beside myself.
In height he was about my size, that is, six feet and half an inch; his cast of features singularly like mine, and extremely distingue.
Refinement she possessed only in the society-journal sense, but her intonation was that of the idle class, and her grammar did not limp. 'There let me look. Oh, I think that's an improvement more distingue. And now tell me the news. How is your father? 'Very bad, I'm afraid, said Horace, when he had regarded himself in a mirror with something of doubtfulness.
Family grievances thus duly recorded and lamented, Lady Chillingly returned to her guests. Evidently unconscious of her husband's designs on Cecilia, she dismissed her briefly: "A very handsome young lady, though rather too blonde for her taste, and certainly with an air distingue." Lastly, she enlarged on the extreme pleasure she felt on meeting again the friend of her youth, Lady Glenalvon.
And with this he took off his hat to Suzette and shook hands with André, who looked not overpleased, and proceeded to introduce me as his friend Monsieur Basil Arbuthnot, "a young English gentleman, très distingué"
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