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Updated: October 23, 2025
She could get decayed gentlewomen and clergymen and officers' daughters by the dozen, but she did not want a girl with a sickly knowledge of everything, and very sickly ideas of her own merits and place and work in the world: she wanted a girl of natural sagacity, who from her cradle had known that she came into the world to do something, and had learned how to do it.
'I'm sure Mysie looks like a lady, a gentleman's child I mean as much as Fly or any one else. 'I trust you all look like gentlewomen, and are such in refinement and manners, but there is an air, which comes partly of birth, partly of breeding, and that none of you, except, perhaps, Alethea, can boast of, and about which papa and I don't care one rush. 'Has Fly got it, mamma? said Valetta.
They say that it was grief for her loss that made him come out mighty strong as a preacher; for, though he was a clergyman, he was never heard of in the pulpit before he lost his wife; since then, the whole country has rung with the preaching of the clergyman of M as they call him. Those two nice young gentlewomen, whom you saw with the female childer, are his daughters."
If he had any longing for the society of women of his own race and kind, he carefully concealed it; his indifference to the subtle though unmistakable appeals of the two gentlewomen in the château was irritating in the extreme. When he deliberately, though politely, declined their invitation to tea one afternoon, their humiliation knew no bounds.
Now shall I tell you for what cause I hate them: for they be sorceresses and enchanters many of them, and be a knight never so good of his body and full of prowess as man may be, they will make him a stark coward to have the better of him, and this is the principal cause that I hate them; and to all good ladies and gentlewomen I owe my service as a knight ought to do.
When these weddings were done another solemnity took place; for there came into the church the various knights whom Gareth had overcome, each with his knightly followers, and with them the thirty ladies whom he had delivered from the brown knight, attended by many gentlewomen.
The girl who gives you a cup of tea in a shop; the girl who dances in the ballet; the girl who makes your dresses." "In that case, Clara, you need not mind my calling Miss Aglen a young lady." "There is one word left, at least: women of my class are gentlewomen." "Miss Aglen is a gentlewoman." "Arnold, look me in the face. My dear boy, tell me, are you mad?
Did we attempt to force all these acquirements and a dozen more on every girl; all her time would be occupied about things which will be of no value to her in eternity. I need not tell you that we are carefully communicating to every one of them that general knowledge which should be common to all gentlewomen.
A curious incident occurred during the representation. Two ladies gentlewomen they could not be correctly styled being seated in the balcon, were brought in closer contact, whether by the crowd, or otherwise, than was agreeable to them.
It was all done with the same conscious dignity and ease that characterized the statelier duties of their every day life. One fact was apparent to all: they were gentlewomen still. The refinement of their home education, and the charm of nourished beauty were, perhaps, more prominent in contrast with their assumed avocation.
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