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"I like him so much, and think him so good, and do really feel that his affection is so great an honour to me, that I could not answer him as though I were quite indifferent to him." "At any rate, he is to come again?" "If he pleases." "Does he really love you?" "How am I to say? But that is missish and untrue. I am sure he loves me." "So that he will grieve to lose you?" "I know he will grieve.
He is a gentleman, and clever, and, upon the whole, he bears a great injury well. I like him. But I don't think people ought to fall in love when there is a strong reason against it." "Certainly not, if they can help it." "Pshaw! That's missish nonsense, Mary, and you know it.
"These consultations of yours and acting in concert one tongue for three women are a sort of missish, unripe nonsense, that one sees only in bourgeoise girls eh? Give it up. Lady Charlotte hit on it at a glance." "And I, my chameleon brother, will return her the compliment, some day," Adela said to herself, as she hurried back to her sisters, bearing a message for Cornelia.
"'Well, Carter, I think you're a good fellow, and I'll trust you, I said; 'but, in order to do that, I must tell you a long story, and what's worse still, a love-story. "I felt that I blushed a little as I said this, and was ashamed of the false shame that brought that missish glow into my cheeks. Mr. Carter perceived my embarrassment, and was kind enough to encourage me.
"Now; Graeme, don't be missish! `Never said a word! Why, a blind man might have seen it all along. I know we all looked upon her as a child, but a woman soon knows when a man cares for her." "No wise woman will acknowledge it to another till she has been told so in words; at least she ought not," said Graeme, gravely. "Oh, well! there is no use talking.
If she had jumped to the conclusion that this change was because Edmund had learnt at the eleventh hour that Rose would be at Groombridge, she had no right to be so quick-sighted. It was almost "Missish" of Rose, he told himself, to be so ready to think his heart in danger, and to be so unnecessarily tender of his feelings.
You are too good, too gracious to indulge a girlish vanity at the cost of a man's suspense." Missish and girlish! Miss Waddington felt that it behoved her to look to her character. These were words which had not usually been applied to her. "Indeed, Mr. Bertram, I should think myself unpardonable to keep you in suspense." "Then answer me," said he.
"Was I not right about that labelling? O heavens! what idiots we girls are! That a dozen soft words should have bowled me over like a ninepin, and left me without an inch of ground to call my own. And I was so proud of my own strength; so sure that I should never be missish, and spoony, and sentimental! I was so determined to like him as Mark does, or you "
But it seemed stiff and "missish" to refuse she must do now as his world did. And it was another little thing; she wanted little things, all the time wanted them. She drew back a window-curtain, and they stood there side by side. The sea was deep blue beneath bright stars, and the moon shone through a ragged pine-tree on a little headland.
Many of this kind will instantly occur to those acquainted with English worthies: to mention two John Evelyn and Sir Fowell Buxton. A girl of seventeen a girl with a "missish" name, with a "missish" face as well, soft skin, bright eyes, dark hair, medium height and a certain amount of coquetry in her attire. This completes the "visible" of Nellie Archer. And the invisible?
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