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"Well," he rumbled, "I guess this lets me out. S'long." And he strode heavily from the room; a moment later his cursing came back to them as he rode into the night. "Takes it kind of hard, don't he?" said the father. And the mother murmured: "Poor Ralph!" "So you went an' done it?" said the mannish girl to her sister. "What of it?" snapped the other. "He's too good for you, that's what of it."
Even the servant girl has become a thing of the past, and the 'help' of the present day wears trousers, not metaphorically, as his female predecessor was wont to do but literally. However, I'm not going to discuss the servant-girl question. That is an old story and a painful one almost as painful as the mannish woman.
She stood beside her desk as she seemed to have stood ever since he could remember her tall, placid, dull-eyed, self-sufficient, exhaling as it were a kind of stubborn yet competent listlessness. Her long, mannish countenance expressed an undoubted interest in his presence, when she recognized him, but he had no clear perception whether it was pleased or otherwise.
"Wouldn't I like to be a brakeman, though," sighed William. Jennie, alone, kept silent, but to her particularly the suggestion of travel and comfort had appealed. How beautiful life must be for the rich! Sebastian now appeared in the distance, a mannish spring in his stride, and with every evidence that he took himself seriously.
"What else would you have a woman? Mannish and raffish, like my Lady Ostermore?" "I'll not listen to you," he said. "Ye're not just, Hortensia. Ye're heated; heated! I'll not listen to you. Besides, when all is said, what reasons be these for the folly ye've committed?" "Reasons?" she echoed scornfully. "Reasons and to spare!
And yet it was in no sense masculine or, to use a more appropriate word, mannish; for everything strong is masculine; but a woman who apes an appearance of strength which she does not possess, is mannish; rather was it so truly feminine that she could afford to adopt a severe simplicity of attire, which suited admirably the decided plainness of her features, and the almost massive proportions of her figure.
"Your description of her does not strike me as particularly attractive," he said "I cannot endure that nineteenth-century hermaphroditic production, a mannish woman." "Oh but she isn't altogether mannish," declared Villiers, . . "Besides, I mustn't forget to add, that she is extremely beautiful." Alwyn shrugged his shoulders indifferently. His friend noticed the gesture and laughed.
I don't mean that she's rude about it, but she seems to set herself so square across the way, and you come up with a kind of bump against her. I don't think that's very feminine. That's what I mean by mannish. You always know where to find her." I don't know why this criticism should have amused me so much, but I began to laugh quite uncontrollably, and I laughed on and on. Mrs.
But there was nothing mannish about Lou Grayling nothing at all, though she had other attributes of body and mind for which to thank her father. They were the best of chums.
First there dashed in two horsemen, who had sprung to the ground almost as soon as their steeds' hoofs struck the paved court-yard. Then there swept by a jaunty dog cart, driven by a mannish figure radiantly robed in white. Swiftly following came the dash and jingle of four coach-horses, bathed in sweat, rolling the vehicle into the court as if its weight were a thing of air.
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