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Tryan, thought Miss Eliza; 'it is really pitiable to see such feelings in a woman of her age, with those old-maidish little ringlets. I daresay she flatters herself Mr.
Swinton helping himself out of some dish of good things offered to him by one of the servants; Catherine playing in a sort of demure, old-maidish way with knife and fork as if she were eating against her will and finally they rested on me, to whom the dinner was just a pretty pageant of luxury in which I scarcely took any part.
Every part of the house was in such order, and every one was so attentive to me, that I had no trouble with my two bunches of keys, though what with trying to remember the contents of each little store-room drawer and cupboard; and what with making notes on a slate about jams, and pickles, and preserves, and bottles, and glass, and china, and a great many other things; and what with being generally a methodical, old-maidish sort of foolish little person, I was so busy that I could not believe it was breakfast- time when I heard the bell ring.
My Arabs were busy with their bread; Mysseri rattling tea-cups; the little kettle, with her odd old-maidish looks, sat humming away old songs about England; and two or three yards from the fire my tent stood prim and tight, with open portal, and with welcoming look, like “the old arm-chair” of our lyrist’s “sweet Lady Anne.”
The Irwines should dine with him every week, and have their own carriage to come in, for in some very delicate way that Arthur would devise, the lay-impropriator of the Hayslope tithes would insist on paying a couple of hundreds more to the vicar; and his aunt should be as comfortable as possible, and go on living at the Chase, if she liked, in spite of her old-maidish ways at least until he was married, and that event lay in the indistinct background, for Arthur had not yet seen the woman who would play the lady-wife to the first-rate country gentleman.
She never looked more wasted and old-maidish than when thus affirming her wifely rights. But her eyes were motherly. "Ah, my dears!" It seems so heartless to be sending you off in such a small boat, even for your own good." "Never fear, Mary. Repaired. Carry six comfortably," reassured Williams in a tremendous mutter, like a bull. "But why can't you give them one of the others, Owen?
"There's nothing old-maidish about you; not even age yet; a girl of twenty-six to be calling herself that! it's perfectly absurd. Isn't it, my dear?" "I think so, indeed," replied Mr. Dinsmore. "Here, Jim, Cato, and the rest of you carry in these trunks and boxes, and let us have them unpacked and put out of sight."
So these rooms, always blazing in Betty's eyes with the Bengal fire of Imperial victory, were to her perennially splendid. As time went on, Lisbeth had contracted some rather strange old-maidish habits. For instance, instead of following the fashions, she expected the fashion to accept her ways and yield to her always out-of-date notions.
Think of the way I've always wanted children but if they'd been my real own, they'd have been sickly, likely, or even lame like me, or just ordinary like the only kind of man who would have married me. As it is, I've had Clarice's and now " She broke off with a quick, old-maidish colour.
There is a day of reckoning coming to you, young woman, and to these other meddlers here whether they are playing politics or meddling just because they are old-maidish busy-bodies." She was facing the politician with burning cheeks. "You," she scorned, "belong to an age that is passing away. You cannot understand these people like Miss Kendall, like Mr.