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Feeling that his question was somewhat gauche, he smiled angrily. Then as if vexed that he could not ever express what he really meant, he said irritably, in a loud voice: "Excellency, I have the honour of inviting you to my funeral; that is, if you will deign to honour it with your presence. I invite you all, gentlemen, as well as the general."
You know she's horridly shy, and as gauche as if she lived in the backwoods, and we meant to 'send her to Coventry. We had it all arranged, and a whole lot of girls would have joined us, for it's contrary to the spirit of a place like this to allow girls of the Priscilla Peel type to become popular or liked in any way.
"My dear parent," drawled Jean Briggerland, "after my lecture on the stupidity of the average criminal, do you imagine I should do anything so gauche?" "And now, Mrs. Meredith," said Jack Glover, "what are you going to do?"
She liked the idea of placing the gauche girl under so vigorous and seasoned a wing as Estelle Baker's. As for Mrs. Baker herself, that gay and good-humored lady laughed at the leggy and serious youngster and promptly took her education in hand along lines not laid down in Church Schools. Mrs.
Never in my life had I been gauche, for which I thank my parents, and if years ago long years ago a certain timidity had marked my first introductions to the Louvre and the Luxembourg, that timidity was something from which I had long since parted company.
She looked a trifle gauche, it struck me; more like a country girl with the hoyden taming in her than the well-bred creature she is. I did not suspect her to have feeling. You must remember, Sir Willoughby, that she has obeyed your wishes, done her utmost: I do think we may say she has made some amends; and if she is to blame she repents, and you will not insist too far." "I do insist," said he.
A man's domestic armoury was filled with weapons if he could make a woman feel gauche, inexperienced, in the wrong. When he was safely married, he could pave the way to what he felt was the only practical and feasible end. If he had been marrying a woman with more brains, she would be more difficult to subdue, but with Rosalie Vanderpoel, processes were not necessary.
She is going to a situation." "Poor girl! Companion or governess? or both?" "Neither; she will be either housemaid or undernurse." Harold almost jumped off his chair. "A girl like that! as a domestic servant! Mother, it's a disgraceful shame!" "The disgrace is in the language you permit yourself to use to me. Your travels have made you rather boisterous and gauche.
Judith had spoken to this wholesome, adorably gauche young creature of truth, while, to maintain the thing that stood to her for light and food and truth itself, she had, amongst other shifts, to resort even to this daily paltering with the verities upon her face. Killigrew arrived a couple of days later, and Ishmael drove Georgie over to meet him.
Milt quite carefully stopped the Gomez. The day was still just a breathing of running water in the deep gully. The topsy-turvy car below them was equally still; no sight of Pinky, no sound. The gauche boy gone from him, Milt took her hand, pressed it to his cheek. "Claire! You're here! You might have gone with him, to make room Oh, I was bullying you because I was bullying myself!
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