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Updated: June 17, 2025
The room did appear old-maidish, as Mademoiselle Milan stood looking in. The balmy breeze fluttered pleasantly past the little French curtains, the glowing sunshine warmed the delicate tracery of the walls and lighted up the flowers on a huge rug spread on the bare floor.
He was a thorough child, too, with all his unconscious tact. The scent of a lemon-verbena plant fetched him suddenly to his feet with his eyes bright. "Please let me " he thrust his face into the bush; "I have never seen it growing like this." Miss Bracy looked at Mr. Frank. How utterly different it was from their old-maidish expectations!
'Well, my dear chap, he said, 'think of guts! I mean to say, Guts! Hang it all, we must cover up something! I thought he was being rather old-maidish then, but I'm not sure now that Elsden's point of view hasn't got something behind it. He just wanted to be decently quiet about things that aren't pretty!
Who would teach that heart to feel again? Who turn to quivering flesh that rigid marble? Yet the man of iron sat masking his features, controlling his emotions, with every muscle under his command. It was a flash of real feeling from a proud, sensitive woman, but it passed lightly as a snowdrift on a frozen river. "Mr. Reed, you certainly are the most old-maidish man I ever saw in my life."
"I've tried to be like a mother to you. I've loved you as if you were my own son." She was so small and frail, there was something so pathetic in her old-maidish air, that Philip was touched. A great lump came suddenly in his throat and his eyes filled with tears. "I'm so sorry," he said. "I didn't mean to be beastly."
"My name is Hill, madam; my father's name was Hill, madam; all the Hills have been named Hill, madam; Hill is a good name and by , madam, you shall use it." On other matters he was more compliant humoring her old-maidish fancies in a most docile and conciliating manner. Curiously neat and orderly, Mrs.
It is unnecessary for me to give a list of the present members; it is enough to say that it comprises every prominent English actor of to-day. Arthur Cecil had a delightful nature, with a marked but not unpleasant "old-maidish" element in it. For instance, no mortal eye had ever beheld him without a little black handbag. Wherever Arthur Cecil went the little bag went with him.
A minute later, the American colours, which we had brought in the boat, replaced the English red, and PQH was fluttering at the fore. "Now, then," said Nares, who had watched the breaking out of his signal with the old-maidish particularity of an American sailor, "out with those handspikes, and let's see what water there is in the lagoon."
Put her down, she 's worth her tea and toast ten times over, nobody knows what a "thunder-and-lightning woman," as poor Major used to have it, is, till she gets alongside of one of those old-maidish girls, with hair the color of brown sugar, and eyes like the blue of a teacup.
"That's on account of Sally Bent," answered Denver Jim. "Sally and her brother got a shack out this way, and Cold Feet boards with 'em." "Sally Bent! That's an old-maidish-sounding name." Denver Jim grinned broadly. "Tolerable," he said, "just tolerable old-maidish sounding." When they reached the top of the knoll, the horses paused, as if by common assent.
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