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You know his country notions, dear William; and I think that latterly he has hated everything that looks Londonish and new-fangled worse than ever. We are old-fashioned people at Rutherford. There's your pretty old friend Mary Amott can't abide gewgaws any more than my father." "Mary Arnott! You mean Mrs. Giles. What do I care for her likes and dislikes?" exclaimed William, haughtily.
I remember vividly every element of the place, down to the intensely Londonish look of the grey opposite houses, in the gap of the white curtains of the high windows, and the exact spot where, on a particular afternoon, I put down my tea-cup for Brooksmith, lingering an instant, to gather it up as if he were plucking a flower. Mr.
If they had ever heard of the sun-god, Phoebus Apollo would have presented himself to their rusticity in some such guise as the personality of the local knight. Sir Blaise had been to London once had kissed the King's hand at Whitehall, and had ever since striven vehemently to be more Londonish than the Londoner.
The girls in the Edinburgh shops are nice and obliging the war-time manner doesn't seem to have reached shop-assistants in Scotland, luckily but quite Londonish with their manners and their 'Moddom. In Glasgow, they give one such a feeling of personal interest. You would really think it mattered to them what you chose.
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