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She had seen so little of men in the last ten years that she had almost forgotten their distinguishing characteristics, and the scent of tobacco stealing through the closed door of the front room downstairs came as a fresh surprise when she passed Out in the morning. "I suppose I'm getting old maidish," she thought. "That comes of leading a one-sided life. Yes, I am getting into a groove."
For I fancied I read between your lines that your scheme of life had not been precisely that of an anchorite. Pray understand that I have never supposed it was so, and that I rather honour your attempt to indicate the fact to me without outraging my maidenly old maidish, if you will susceptibilities"?
It may be inquired in what capacity Miss Arabella Mason remained at the Hall; she was not a servant, for her position in life was above that of a menial; neither was she received altogether in the saloon, as she was of too humble a grade to mix with gentry and nobility; she was, therefore, betwixt and between, a sort of humble companion in the drawing-room, a cut above the housekeeper in the still-room, a fetcher and carrier of the honourable spinster's wishes, a sort of link between the aristocratic old dame and her male attendants, towards whom she had a sort of old maidish aversion.
Certainly the panels took a new beauty, a luminous delicacy, in their artificial rays; and Dorothea, when, after much greeting and hand-shaking, she joined one of the groups inspecting them, felt a sort of proprietary pleasure in the praises she heard. Had she known it, she too was looking her best tonight in an old- maidish fashion, be it understood.
Indeed, her cousin Blanche, who was here in the winter, gave us to understand that Ursula knows how to take care of herself, and gets laughed at as rather an old maidish model of propriety, if you can believe it of your little Nuttie. 'I could quite believe in her on the defensive, unprotected as she is.
Nothing was required of her except colourless acquiescence in a life of torpid, unnatural, unendurable ennui. The young lady's only guardian was a wealthy maiden aunt, who was as rich as she was old maidish a statement likely to thrill the heart of any mammon-worshipper among her acquaintance and whose special pride was the exemplary manner in which she had brought up her brother's child.
Dale had nothing to say; she shut her eyes to any impropriety, and even remarked severely to Miss Deborah Woodhouse that those old-fashioned ideas of a girl's being always under her mother's eye, were prim and old maidish; "and beside, Lois's mother is dead," she added, with a sort of triumph in her voice.
'It was for a purpose. Don't be old maidish, Jenny! 'Well, he isn't a gentleman. 'Now, Jane, I'm sure 'Never mind. I want to hear; only I should have thought you would have been the first to cry out. 'Little Maura seems to have risen to the occasion, and made a full explanation as far as she knew -and that was more than the child ought to have known, by the bye -of how Mr.
The inelasticity of it hampered sociability and there grew on one, too, a sense of unfitness. His clothes were an anachronism! They were the only thing which did not belong! There is an old-fashioned adjective which describes better than any other this preoccupation with things, which so often prevents a woman's coming to an understanding of the heart of her Business. It is old maidish.
While Lindy well, in her black sewin' dress and white apron, she looks slimmer and more old maidish than ever. He confines his greetin' to a nod of the head, and stands there gazin' at her as calm as if he was starin' at some stranger in the street. "I suppose you've come to take me away with you, Carlos?" says she. "No," says he. "But I thought," says Lindy, "I I thought some day you might.
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