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Updated: May 5, 2025
Low-voiced, gentlewomanly, with the pallor of ill-health perhaps unduly accented by her mourning, which was still cut modishly enough to show off her spare but good figure, she was supposed to represent the model of pious, scholastic refinement.
She was deferentially autocratic; her voice was monotonously dignified and cultured; and she was tired, which she had a right to be, for she had been in this business of being a gentlewomanly hired aunt to raw young girls for over a quarter of a Century. To the tired but practical eye of Miss Grierson, here was certainly a young woman who needed a lot of working over to make into a lady.
"But you haven't only lost your head, Geoffrey," she said. "You've lost your figure as well." She went out quickly. With a convulsive bound Geoffrey started to follow her, but was checked before he had gone a yard. There are formalities to be observed before a patron can leave Ye Cosy Nooke. "If you please!" said a distressed gentlewomanly voice. The lady whom Mr.
Pamela said then, "You don't look well, child." "Oh " Nan threw her cigarette end impatiently into the grate. "I'm all right. I'm tired, and I've been thinking too much. That never suits me.... Thanks, Pam. You've helped me to make up my mind. I like you, Pam," she added dispassionately, "because you're so gentlewomanly. You don't ask questions, or pry. Most people do." "Surely not.
And, as he looked on her in her slender elegance of form and gentlewomanly loveliness of face, a loveliness intelligent and refined beyond that of most women, he felt borne in on his consciousness the fact that here was one to be respected. He fought against the impression. It was to him preposterous, for she was one of that underworld against which he was ruthlessly at war.
And I am bound to say that they were received with as much disfavour as was my portion from the Misses Hurlbird.... They were curious old creatures, those two. It was almost as if they were members of an ancient family under some curse they were so gentlewomanly, so proper, and they sighed so. Sometimes I would see tears in their eyes.
To this, when she was alone after school hours, she sometimes added a faint, colorless voice of limited range and gentlewomanly expression.
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