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When I called her Cecile, she burst into tears, and said no one had called her by that name since she had left her friend Amelie in the convent, and as to calling me Marguerite, Mademoiselle de Gringrimeau would be sure to say it was bourgeois and ill-bred to use familiar names, but then we need never let her hear us.
No one had ever been so ill-bred as to say to her: "Excuse me, young lady, would you not like to come with me to a different point of view, and look at the matter from the other side? How if it should turn out to be a mere set-scene of painted pasteboard?" Sören's young wife had now had ample opportunities of studying the set-scene from the other side. Mrs.
"Of course," remarked O'Shea, "I see difficulties. If the doctor here was a young man of parts, I'd easier put ye and Mammy in his care; but old Skipper Pierre is no milksop." Josephine looked, first alert, as if suspecting an ill-bred joke, and then, as O'Shea appeared to be speaking to her quite seriously, forgetting that Caius might overhear, there came upon her face a look of gentle severity.
Chagrined, he turned back to seek some circling path through the dense crowd ahead; and was aware, in the darkness, of a shadowy figure entering the jasmine arbour. And though his eyes were still confused by the lantern light he knew her again in the dusk. As they passed she said under her breath: "That was ill-bred. I am disappointed."
"I was very unwise to let you go among people of whom I know so little, kind, I dare say, but worldly, ill-bred, and full of these vulgar ideas about young people. I am more sorry than I can express for the mischief this visit may have done you, Meg." "Don't be sorry, I won't let it hurt me.
You had better fasten a mill-stone about your neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea than say or be or do anything their despicable little code considers ill-bred. Oh yes, I knew what my brother meant by breeding, but my experience had not tallied with what I had been taught. Sometimes I have fancied that some strain of chivalry had kept him under the illusion of birth and gentility.
The men were putting the clams around. She seemed to reflect. And then she peppered and salted them before she spoke. "Bob is very wrong to talk so," she said at last, picking up her fork, "when you’re his friend, too." He poked his clams—he hated clams. "I suppose men think it’s amusing to do such things," she continued, "but I think it’s as ill-bred as practical joking."
Yes; the kitchen must be separated from the dining-room, and the more perfect its appointments, the easier is this separation. The library and the sitting-room are completely divided by a mere curtain, because each is quiet and well disposed, not inclined to assert its own rights or invade those of others; but the ordinary kitchen, like ill-bred people, is constantly doing both.
"You are sullen to-eight, /mon cher/," said Lumley, yawning; "I suppose you want to go to bed some persons are so ill-bred, so selfish, they never think of their friends. Nobody asks me what I won at /ecarte/. Don't be late to-morrow I hate breakfasting alone, and I am never later than a quarter before nine I hate egotistical, ill-mannered people. Good night."
"And I saw the famous group my group." "Well?" "It is very fine. The greyhound runs like a mad dog. The fox is admirably done. But I didn't quite understand. You told me that it was the story of us two." "And so it is! Look carefully. It's a fable that I read in You don't read Rabelais, Monsieur le Duc?" "Faith, no. He is too vulgar." "Well, I have learned to read him. Very ill-bred, you know!
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