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He thought the old woman took off all his clothes and wrapped him up in a squirrel skin, and that he went about with the other squirrels and guinea pigs, who were all very pleasant and well mannered, and waited on the old woman. First he learned to clean her cocoa-nut shoes with oil and to rub them up.
"Very much," said Cecil, in the tones that always gave the impression that he despised the particular subject under discussion. Norah had quite withdrawn the opinion formed in the first five minutes of their acquaintance, that he was ill mannered now she bewailed the fact that he was so uniformly and painfully polite. "Well, if you would " she said, hesitatingly. "What do you boys think?"
"I daresay she'll be looking for war whoops and tomahawks. And if it comes to that, we can furnish the former, especially Sunday night." "Muzzie, did you meet the boy?" Honor wanted to know. "Yes. He came in for tea with us. A beautifully mannered boy. Very much at ease. We must have him here, Honor." "Yes, Jimsy's already asked him for Sunday night, Muzzie. Jimsy likes him." "Well, he may.
In such a room as this the mildest mannered man, steeping his soul in the solace of mellow tobacco, might have been pardoned for dreaming lustfully of battle, murder and sudden death, or for contemplating with entire equanimity the tortured squirmings of some favourite enemy upon the rack.
Among them one might distinguish the usual shades and species: the familiar country cousin, gathering material for the over-awing of such of her neighbours as were unable to dip themselves every year in the stream of London; the women folk of the artist world, presenting greater varieties of type than the women of any other class can boast; and lastly, a sprinkling of the women of what calls itself 'London Society, as well dressed, as well mannered, and as well provided with acquaintance as is the custom of their kind.
The attack on Barstowe, who seemed to fight well, the cries, the shouts, the imprecations, the fact that half a dozen people, inmates and attendants, joined in the confusion as if by magic, all this was nothing to Jones, nor was the subsidiary fact that one of the inmates, a quiet mannered clergyman, with a taste for arson, had taken advantage of the confusion and was patiently and sedulously at work, firing the thatch of the summer house in six different places, with a long concealed box of matches.
The first scaffold erected in that gently mannered island would arise for Gabriel, and that ignominious punishment tarnish the whole population and imprint upon it the first brand of disgrace.
Poets and novelists write such fine things about poverty and honest toil, and throw a halo of romance about them." "Yet Peggy is above the average far above the average," said Jane, thoughtfully; "these children are better taught and better mannered than three-fourths of the peasantry in Scotland, but yet it is a great change to us, a very great change."
But in considering the relation of her manner of life to her work, her creations, her meditations, one cannot but see that when compared with some writers of her own sex and age, she is constantly bookish, artificial, and mannered.
There was time for the hot cheek to cool and the angry heart to be stilled a little before the visitors came. Miss Gascoigne had truly remarked that the master's wife was unaccustomed to society that society which forms the staple of all provincial towns, well dressed, well mannered, well informed.
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