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I'll call you a little before two, and then you must go quietly upstairs, and dress just wear your plain little ginghams, the clean ones of course! Then if they do catch a glimpse of you, you will be presentable. Yes, you can take some bread and sugar, but hurry." "You may take," said Fairy. "Yes, of course, may take is what I mean. Now hurry."
"I know I'm a fright," she asserted vigorously, shaking out the folds of her pleated skirt. "And as for my hat, it will never be on straight but then you wouldn't know." "It seems all right," he replied vacantly. "Then please to try to look a little happier, since you find me quite presentable." "I do..." Without lifting her bended head, she looked up, laughing, not ill-pleased.
And how difficult it is for writers to disentangle themselves from bad traditions is noticeable when we find Goldsmith, who had grave command of the Comic in narrative, producing an elegant farce for a Comedy; and Fielding, who was a master of the Comic both in narrative and in dialogue, not even approaching to the presentable in farce.
We come to another fallen tree over another hole; this tree we recognise as an old acquaintance near Buea, and I feel disgusted, for I had put on a clean blouse, and washed my hands in a tea-cupful of water in a cooking pot before leaving the forest camp, so as to look presentable on reaching Buea, and not give Herr Liebert the same trouble he had to recognise the white from the black members of the party that he said he had with the members of the first expedition to the peak; and all I have got to show for my exertion that is clean or anything like dry is one cuff over which I have been carrying a shawl.
I will have no toss at him now he is all the gentleman, you shall see: so let me set you all to rights while your father is receive. I would not have him see you such a horrible figure not presentable! you look " "I do not care how I look the worse the better," said Dora: "I wish to look a horrible figure to him to Black Connal."
"Though the apparel will be tattered and torn, the mind, the essence of me, is sound to the core. Please tell the little milliner to have a bonnet picked out for me, and get a dressmaker who will patch me together so that I shall be presentable." Open to all women irrespective of race or creed, the National Woman Suffrage Association attracted fearless independent devoted members.
This consists of a hood-like covering for the head, and a loose flowing robe, all in one piece; having neither shoes nor the other garments to make themselves presentable in any decent or refined society. Many present pictures of indescribable wretchedness.
'But will he take a house-mastership do you think, doctor? asked the careful lady. 'No, he won't; he's married or soon going to be. We must let him off the house duty. 'Married! said Mrs. Greatrex, turning it over cautiously. 'Who's he going to marry, I wonder? I hope somebody presentable. 'Why, of course! Dr.
It was not for several minutes that Virginia recollected to ask again who was the man they had decided upon. Her betrothed found some inner source of pleasure that brought out a sardonic smile. "He's a slap in the face at both Harley and me." "I can't think who is he honest?" "As the day." "And capable?" "Oh, yes. He's competent enough." "Presentable?" "Yes.
Nellie was not a favorite at home, and no one humored her as much as Maude, who, on this occasion, almost outdid herself in her endeavors to please the exacting girl, and make the house as presentable as possible to the fashionable Mrs. Kelsey and the still more fashionable J.C. De Vere.
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