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Lord Rotherwood told the boys that their brother was a great deal too good for them, but they never troubled themselves to ask in what respect; Lilias took very great delight in telling Emily of the sacrifice which he had been willing to make, and looked forward to talking it over with Alethea, but she refrained, as long as he was at home, as she knew it would greatly displease him, and she had heard enough about missish confidences.
There was a maudlin, missish, namby-pamby sentimentality about them which disgusted her. She specially desired to be straightforward, resolute of purpose, honest-spoken, and free from all touch of affectation. And yet she had excused herself from marrying John Eames after the fashion of a sick schoolgirl. "It is no good talking about it any more," she said, getting up from her chair quickly.
You see a good deal of each other openly, and such doings are very silly and missish, and have an underhand appearance such as I am sure your father would not like.
"Janice, thee should turn actress." "Oh, Tibbie, lace my bodice quickly, or I shall burst of laughing," breathlessly begged the girl. "Janice," said her mother, entering, "how often must I tell thee that giggling is missish? Stop, this moment." "Yes, mommy," gasped Janice. Then she added, after a shriek and a wriggle, "Don't, Tabitha!" "What ails thee now, child?
'Miserable! she said, dashing a tear from her eyes, 'I must go and lie down then in the proper missish fashion. Mind, on your peril, Catherine, not a word to anyone but Robert. I shall tell Agnes. And Robert is not to speak to me! No, don't come I will go alone. And warning her sister back, she groped her way upstairs.
She could not deny that he had justice on his side stern, harsh, bare justice when he came there to her and flung back her love and promises into her teeth. He had the right to do so, and she would not complain. But he should not leave her till he had acquitted her of the vile, missish crime of flirting with another because he was absent.
'A fine demonstration of the rule of love, to go about the world slandering your sister! 'To go about the world! Oh! Claude, it was only Robert, one of ourselves, and Alethea, to whom I tell everything. 'So much the worse. I always rejoiced that you had no foolish young lady friend to make missish confidences to.
"No, thanks, I had too much tea." Isabel checked herself on the brink of reminding him that he had eaten only two cucumber sandwiches and a macaroon. In Lawrence Hyde's society her conversation had not its usual happy flow, she felt tonguetied and missish. "How close you are to the Downs here!"
"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.
"I really wish he had stayed away," she said to her aunt as they were getting ready for dinner. "Nonsense, Caroline; why should he have stayed away? Why should you expect him to stay away? Had he stayed away, you would have been the first to grumble. Don't be missish, my dear." "Missish! Upon my word, aunt Mary, you are becoming severe.
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