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"Do you encourage him?" I asked. "Furieusement sometimes," said she. "Without being certain that you will be permitted to marry him?" "Oh, how dowdyish you are! I don't want to be married. I am too young." "But if he loves you as much as you say, and yet it comes to nothing in the end, he will be made miserable." "Of course he will break his heart.
John Temple! so almost the same as James Temple, only a few squares below. Who was to distinguish her, Mrs. Juliet St. Leger Temple, from the fat, dowdyish, over-dressed, gaudy Mrs. Temple, who wore a wig, and whose eyes squinted? Who, she questioned, when both went by the name of Mrs. J. Temple, of M street? Her early married life was clouded by this one grievance.
They did not dress well: one looked rustic; another was dowdyish; a third was over-fine; a fourth was insignificant. Their bearing was not good, in the main. They danced, and whispered, and laughed, and looked like milkmaids. They had no style, no figure.
Perhaps Uncle Jabez might notice how shabby she looked, finally, and give her something more appropriate to wear. Especially as it had been through him that her other frocks were lost. But it was not an easy thing to face a whole schoolroom full of girls and boys and most of them strangers to her looking so "dowdyish." Ruth's love of pretty things was born in her.
They did not dress well: one looked rustic; another was dowdyish; a third was over-fine; a fourth was insignificant. Their bearing was not good, in the main. They danced, and whispered, and laughed, and looked like milkmaids. They had no style, no figure.
"Oh, John," said Carrie, "we were just disputing about 'Lena. Durward does not think her handsome." "Durward be hanged!" answered John, making a feint of drawing from his pocket a pistol which was not there. "What fault has he to find with 'Lena?" "A little too rosy, that's all," said Durward, laughingly, while John continued, "She did look confounded red and dowdyish, for her.
These girls were all dressed in black gowns, with white aprons and neckerchiefs, and white linen caps on their heads, a very dowdyish attire, and well suited to their figures.
These girls were all dressed in black gowns, with white aprons and neckerchiefs, and white linen caps on their heads, a very dowdyish attire, and well suited to their figures.
Ralph, though wise beyond his years, and one who, in a thought borrowed in part from Ovid, we may say, could rather compute them by events than ordinary time, wanted yet considerably in that wholesome, though rather dowdyish virtue, which men call prudence.
I felt he was only affecting fervour in order to put me off my guard, to induce me to come out in return, so I scarcely even smiled. He went on: "Confess, William, do not the mere good looks of Zoraide Reuter appear dowdyish and commonplace compared with the splendid charms of some of her pupils?" The iniquity of the instigation proved its antidote, and when he further added:
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