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He stood hesitating, gauche, as usual. 'Do you know, Mr. Langham, said Rose lightly, by his side, 'that there is no time at all left for you to give me good advice in? That is an obligation still hanging over you.
If she were gauche or crude in manners, he would not have cared for her; if she were not intelligent, he would scarcely have loved her. Of course she had read French and English to some purpose; she could speak Spanish her grandfather had taught her that; she understood Italian fairly she had read it aloud on Sunday evenings with the Chevalier.
Little did she know that in England only, has an unmarried young lady any liberty, and that the standard of foreign propriety on this head is far, very far more rigid than our own. "La premiere Rue a gauche," said an old man of whom I inquired the road; "et puis," added I. "And then quite straight; it is a chaussee all the way, and you cannot mistake it."
I had lost much of my awkwardness and gauche manners, and under the $10 a week arrangement began to dress fairly well. My employers did a brokerage business and speculated as well on their own account. My duties were decidedly light and pleasant, and brought me into contact with some of the sharpest as well as the most famous men in the street.
'Princess Caroline very gauche at cards, 'Princess Caroline very missish at supper, are among the entries made in his diary by Lord Malmesbury, while he was at the little German Court. I can conceive no scene more tragic than that of her presentation to the Prince, as related by the same nobleman.
"His robe of bark-cloth, which completely covered his body, was exquisitely made, and had been manufactured in Uganda, which country is celebrated for this curious production. "This was Kabba Rega, the son of Kamrasi, the sixteenth king of Unyoro, of the Galla conquerors, a gauche, awkward, undignified lout of twenty years of age, who thought himself a great monarch.
No doubt she had heard the whole affair, but she is very good, and never gauche and she only said "Here come the stage-managers! Now what can I do to help? I have had some tea, and am ready to obey orders till the curtain rings up." Boys do not carry things off well. Philip got very red, but I said "Oh, please come to the nursery, Aunt Isobel. There are lots of things to do."
And I mentioned to some of the most English of our young men, that there might be something to be done at Saratoga. But they shrugged their shoulders, especially Timon Croesus and Gauche Boosey, and said "Well, really, the fact is, Miss Tattle, all the Englishmen I have ever met are in fact a little snobbish. However." That was about what they said.
Sabin agreed with her blandly. "It is," he affirmed, "a most regrettable incident." She leaned a little towards him. The box was not a large one, and their chairs already touched. "Are you a jealous husband?" she asked. "Horribly," he answered. "Your devotion to Lucille, or rather the singleness of your devotion to Lucille," she remarked, "is positively the most gauche thing about you.
Marion was, however, not in good humour; she was nervous and a little petulant. She had a high-strung temperament, a sensitive perception of the fitness of things, and a horror of what was gauche; and she would, in brief, make a rather austere person if the lines of life did not run in her favour.
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