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Updated: October 1, 2025
Thackeray has said somewhere that a well-brought-up Englishwoman is the completest of the works of God on this earth. My only wish is to verify this gallant affirmation in the case of my companion. She has put back her veil. Is she a young woman or an old girl? With these Englishwomen one never knows!
For he does not understand, this cold English Dawson, that secrets which endanger the neck are told only to women." "Yet I have heard that he has a team of women his harem, as it is called. I have never seen one of them." "Bah! Englishwomen, of the large feet and the so protruding teeth! Who would tell of his precious secrets to them!" "Oh, come, M. Froissart.
"I have been twice to the gallery with Betty, and both times you were talking like a steam-engine and warning people off the track." It was so apt a description of Burleigh's style when on his feet that even he laughed. "I don't like to be interrupted or contradicted," he said, "I frankly admit it." "Better not marry an American girl." "Some Englishwomen have wills of their own," remarked Mr.
His twenty years of Colonial life, divesting him of the dandyism in which he had been bred, had left him the essential neatness of the horseman, and given him a queer and rather blighting eye over what he called "the silly haw-haw" of some Englishmen, the 'flapping cockatoory' of some Englishwomen Holly had none of that and Holly was his model.
Their women are handsome, and have tall, slim, well-knit figures; and with their free and easy movements, and natural independent airs, they look to me like swarthy Englishwomen. The man has just put the cooking-pot on the fire, and is now splitting bamboos and weaving baskets.
Greater facilities of travel between England and India, and the growth of "hill stations" in which Europeans congregated during the hot season, made it easier for Englishwomen to live in India, though, when the time came for children to be sent home for their education, the choice continued to lie between separation of husband and wife, or of mother and children.
He showed new friends her beautiful pictures told them that she was prettier than that, no picture could do justice to her colour. Among the new friends there had been two sweet plain Englishwomen: the widowed Lady Eileen Hungerford, and her sister, the Honourable Phyllis.
"You must have seen something, in your time, of the ways of deceitful Englishwomen. What does that palaver mean in plain words?" She handed the letter to him. With some reluctance he read it. "Mrs. Gallilee declines to contract any engagement with the person formerly employed as nurse, in the household of the late Mr. Robert Graywell. Mrs.
We had met on the boat; I noticed her the moment I got on board; her quiet, neat clothes were unmistakably French, though not the florid French clothes Englishwomen so often buy and wear so badly.
She knew enough of herself, and enough of Englishwomen, to be sure that when her past life should be known, as it would be known, she would be avoided in England. With all the little ridicule she was wont to exercise in speaking of the old country there was ever mixed, as is so often the case in the minds of American men and women, an almost envious admiration of English excellence.
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