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Pike from the universe as far as she was concerned; and Jane Roose says she is almost the only Duchess who won't know parvenues, and that is what makes her set so dull. There were such a lot of funny frumpy people at the other end of the room "the rabble," Mrs. Pike called them. "Let us walk round and look at the rabble," she said to Lord Doraine, who was standing by her. And they went.
So he didn't even say, when she told him how frumpy she knew herself, how frumpy her very maid, odiously going back on her, rubbed it into her, night and morning, with unsealed eyes and lips, that she now knew her he didn't then say "Ah, see what you've done: isn't it rather your own fault?"
Brooks, will you tell us all about it?" "It seems so odd that you should care so much for that sort of thing," Selina remarked. "As a rule it is the frumpy and uninteresting people who go in for visiting the poor and doing good, isn't it? You seem so young, and so oh, I don't think I'd better go on." "Please do," Brooks begged.
'Grumpy, frumpy, stumpy, dumpy old German! I hate him! 'Don't say that, said Paul. 'There's as kind a heart under old Darco's waistcoat as you'll find in the whole wide world. 'Never mind Darco, Paul dear. He's not a favourite theme of mine. 'I wish you hadn't had to leave him, all the same, because then I shouldn't have had to leave him. Where shall you live in London, Claudia?
In the improvised conservatory opposite one large dim lantern glowed softly amid palms and flowers. To Aurora every goose present that evening was a swan. There were frumpy dresses more than a few, there always are, and there was the usual proportion of plain girls and uninteresting men, but she did not see those.
"Men are such critics," and Irene addressed the remark to Marion, "they pretend to like intellectual women, but they can pardon anything better than an ill-fitting gown. Better be frivolous than badly dressed." "Well," stoutly insisted Forbes, "I'll take my chance with the well-dressed ones always; I don't believe the frumpy are the most sensible."
But they're a bit too formidable even for one of my sober tastes." "I see. They're interesting and clever." "If Low Church and frumpy clothes are cleverness, they're geniuses," he remarked. "Of course, you prefer High Church and low bodices," retorted Mavis. Soon after, Mrs Hamilton and Mavis left the men and went upstairs to the drawing-room.
He didn't even want to come or go, particularly. A rather frumpy old bachelor, with thinning hair and a thickening neck. Every Thursday evening he took dinner at Eva's, and on Sunday noon at Stell's. He tucked his napkin under his chin and openly enjoyed the homemade soup and the well-cooked meats. After dinner he tried to talk business with Eva's husband, or Stell's.
It was difficult to realise that this well-groomed-looking girl, with the bright eyes and softly-flushed cheeks, could really be the same person as the frumpy- looking individual who every morning hurried along the street. Involuntarily Claire threw up her hands; involuntarily she cried aloud in delight "Cheers! Cheers! How do you do, Cecil? Welcome home, Cecil! the real Cecil!
So he didn't even say, when she told him how frumpy she knew herself, how frumpy her very maid, odiously going back on her, rubbed it into her, night and morning, with unsealed eyes and lips, that she now knew her he didn't then say "Ah, see what you've done: isn't it rather your own fault?"
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