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To both was she gracious, gentle, attentive, and lady-like. No allusion was made to the past, except a few remarks that were given on the subject of the theatre. The officers had continued to play until the th had been ordered up the river, when Bulstrode, Billings, Harris, virtuous Marcia, and all, had proceeded to Albany in company.
The children were just coming in from school, well clad and good-looking, the boys ruddy and strong, the girls modest and lady-like. Mr.
They could lunch at the Metropole, and she would take him afterwards to see the very superior lady-like person who was going to take the baby. Sunday. He blessed the day because it was fine. As the train approached Brighton the sun poured through the carriage window. Mildred was waiting for him on the platform. "How jolly of you to come and meet me!" he cried, as he seized her hands.
She wants a nice lady-like poet, that's what she wants." "No, she doesn't," returned Harlan, with deep conviction. "I don't claim to be a specialist, but when a man and a poet are entered for the matrimonial handicap, I'll put my money on the man, every time." Dick swiftly changed the subject, and began to speculate on probable happenings at the sanitarium.
I entreat you not to suppose that any thing but kindness was intended." Edith looked now at Mrs. Dunbar with an earnest scrutiny that was fully equal to the searching gaze of the former. Mrs. Dunbar's tone was cordial and lady-like, but Edith felt repugnance at her use of the word "we."
Indeed, Jess that was her name was altogether so lady-like in her behavior, that more than once Cook allowed her to walk in at the back-door, when she stood politely warming her nose at the kitchen-fire for a minute or two, then turned round and as politely walked out again.
Dunham arrested himself in the use of his fork. "I beg your pardon?" he smiled. It seemed to be a question, and after a moment's doubt Lydia answered, "I didn't know it was strange to have fine weather at the start." "Oh, but I can assure you it is," said Dunham, with a certain lady-like sweetness of manner which he had. "According to precedent, we ought to be all deathly seasick."
Soon after, when his eyes were questioningly seeking hers, she gave him such a sunny, genial smile as to assure him that, whatever might be the cause of her somewhat distant manner, it did not result from any estrangement from him. Heretofore, when Lottie had liked a gentleman, she had been frank in showing that preference within the limits of lady-like bearing.
On the other hand, the most intelligent and lady-like woman I saw, the wife of a Rebel captain, rather surprised me by saying that it seemed pleasanter to have these men stationed there, whom they had known all their lives, and who had generally borne a good character, than to be in the power of entire strangers.
As she described the smiling, childishly lady-like way in which the little girls exchanged their greetings and then intertwined their little arms as they proceeded on their way together, Sadie's fishy eyes filled with tears "Oh, how sweet it is to be a mother!" Dora said "I should say it was," her chum and follower echoed, wiping her tears and laughing at once
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