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She was crazy to pile on a bunch of ancestral lace, yellow and dowdy; but we told her not much, told her freshness and daintiness suited her style much better, and she wasn't old enough to emphasize ancestral lace, and she blushed and gave in. But nothing would have made her do it if Miss Fannie hadn't thought to throw out the age-line.
The apparition in the doorway was commonplace the mistress of the house, Lorella's elder and married sister Fanny neither fair nor dark, neither tall nor short, neither thin nor fat, neither pretty nor homely, neither stupid nor bright, neither neat nor dowdy one of that multitude of excellent, unobtrusive human beings who make the restful stretches in a world of agitations and who respond to the impetus of circumstance as unresistingly as cloud to wind.
She carried her head back, as if she had drawn away in contempt, perhaps from men also. She wore a large, dowdy hat of black beaver, and a sort of slightly affected simple dress that made her look rather sack-like. She was evidently poor, and had not much taste. Miriam usually looked nice. "Where have you seen me?" Paul asked of the woman. She looked at him as if she would not trouble to answer.
She and Eugene discussed the interesting fact that all Englishmen looked exactly alike, dressed, walked, and wore their hats and carried their canes exactly alike. Eugene was impressed with the apparent "go" of the men their smartness and dapperness. The women he objected to in the main as being dowdy and homely and awkward. But when he reached Paris, what a difference!
The chastened bows that had been squat, dowdy, spiritless, were given tweaks, flirts, bracing little pokes and dabs, till, acknowledging a master hand, they stood up, piquant, pert, smart, alert! The short white cotton gloves that called attention to the tanned wrists and arms were stripped off and put in her own pocket.
'Well you struck me as being a little dowdy. 'Dowdy! I had a nice new frock on. I don't think I could have looked dowdy, and among the dreadful old rags that the girls wear here. 'It had nothing to do with the clothes you wore. It was a little quiet, sedate air. 'I wasn't in good spirits when I came down here. 'No, you weren't. I thought you might be a bore.
Well, yes; handsome enough to be a match for a little dowdy, awkward, freckled creature, who ought to be perched on a form at school, and strapped to a backboard to straighten her crooked shoulders. "'The nursery lisps out in all they utter; Besides, they always smell of bread-and-butter. "How admirably Byron has described girls in their teens!" "Eight o'clock.
Bella, as the acknowledged ornament of the family, employed both her hands in giving her hair an additional wave while sitting in the easiest chair, and occasionally threw in a direction touching the supper: as, 'Very brown, ma; or, to her sister, 'Put the saltcellar straight, miss, and don't be a dowdy little puss.
Leucha knew at once that she looked dowdy, and hated Holly all the more for showing herself off, as she expressed it. 'What have you come for? she said. 'I haven't invited you. 'I only thought, Leuchy dear, I 'd like to say good-night, said Holly in her rich, gentle tones. 'Oh, good-night, good-night. But surely you are not going to bed yet? 'Yes, that I am.
Then came Dowdy to the bat. He was far and away the best batsman from Gardiner. Prendergast began to edge in. "Strike one!" from the umpire. Crack! The leather hung low, a little to the left of shortstop, who raced after it. Prendergast was going in at a tremendous clip. As shortstop reached the ball, he swooped down on it, stopped its rolling, and rising quickly, hurled it in across the plate.
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