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Updated: October 10, 2025
There was something about Miss Baker that was very nice; but even Miss Baker was very melancholy, and Miss Mackenzie could see that that melancholy had come from wasted niceness. Had she not been so much the lady, she might have been more the woman. And there could be no disgrace in not being a lady, if such ladyhood depended on external circumstances arranged for one by Providence.
When she smiled it was with the grace and fine dignity of ineffable ladyhood, and yet with the soft ignorance, though none of the abandon, of childhood. Camilla was like a child whose formal code and manners of life had been fully prescribed and learned, but whose vital copy had not been quite set. Lucina loved her aunt Camilla with a strange sense of comradeship, and yet with awe.
Dynevor entertains me with fine stories of your conquests, Clara. Clara laughed, blushed, and answered bluntly, 'What a bother it was! 'You are very hard-hearted. 'You ought to remember the troubles of young ladyhood enough not to wonder. 'I never let things run to that length; but then I had no fortune. But seriously, Clara, were all these people objectionable?
I am so sorry I did not help her to light the tree! 'I do not think it is fatigue, said her sister. 'I hope it is animation and enjoyment all I have ever thought wanting to that sweet face. 'You are as bad as my prosaic cousin, said Louis, 'disenchanting the magic bower and the wood-nymph into fir, wax, and modern young ladyhood.
Who would dream of Plato's dialogues? And you talk of incredible!" "I am content to be called silly." He tried to take her hand. "Well, don't be it in public. You will rank with Lord Tippleton who married Bessie Bilhook, and made a Lady of her the only ladyhood she's ever known." "No, I can't rank with him," he smiled back. "I'm only a Baronet." "It sounds the same. Lady Maper!" she murmured.
This was not an imitation Lady Ursula jealousy at all. That was an interesting game at which one played when Amiel occasionally walked and talked with some stray damsel in the colony. She had no real jealousy of the young ladyhood that at times intruded. But this was different; here she was out- ranked in HER OWN CLASS. In that lay the sting.
In Alma he found the essentials of true ladyhood perhaps with reason; he had never heard her say an ill-natured thing, nor seen upon her face a look which pained his acute sensibilities; she was unpretentious, of equal temper, nothing of a gossip, kindly disposed. Never for a moment had he flattered himself that Alma perceived his devotion or cared for him otherwise than as for an old friend.
The heroines, it is true, were exquisitely beautiful, which Henrietta knew she was not, but from a study of "Jane Eyre" and "Villette" in the holidays, Charlotte Brontë was forbidden at school owing to her excess of passion, Henrietta realized that the plain may be adored too, so she had a modest hope that when the magic season of young ladyhood arrived, a Prince Charming would come and fall in love with her.
If I went into the hall I was sure to run against gardeners carrying in quantities of hot-house plants, with which the front of the stage was being hidden from the foot-lights to the floor; if I wandered into the library I interrupted Aurelia and Ralph rehearsing their parts alone, with their heads very close together; if I hastily withdrew into the morning-room, it was only to find Charles upon his knees luring Evelyn to immediate flight, in soul-stirring accents, before an admiring audience of not unenvious young ladyhood.
It had been possible in the days of Madeleine de Scudèry, and it became possible in the days of Frances Burney: but for some time before, in the days of Sarah Fielding, it was only possible in the ways of Afra and of Mrs. Haywood, who, without any unjust stigma on them, can hardly be said to fulfil the idea of ladyhood, as no doubt Miss Fielding did.
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