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Updated: May 26, 2025
"Society here is not what it used to be, and no doubt is only too glad to welcome presentable young men. I infer that you have not found it difficult." "Oh, I dance well, and my employer's son, Bob Cheever, took me in. But I'm only tolerated. I don't count." The old lady looked at him keenly. "You are ambitious?" He threw back his head. "Well, yes, I am, Mrs. Groome.
"I will show you how, Xavier," he said; "as to climbing the balconies, there is a convenance in it, as in all else. For instance, one must be daring, and discreet, and nimble, and ready to give the law a presentable answer, and lacking that, a piastre. And then the fair one must be a fair one indeed." "Diable, Michie," cried Xavier, "you are ze mischief."
As for myself, a few sound bumps will do them no harm. Make no mistake. Those of the Sans who are presentable," she smiled broadly, "will get here as soon as they can. All of them absent would be a grand exposé. Some must appear to take the curse off the wounded."
A ladder of this kind is given a more presentable appearance if the rungs are let in square to the sides and flush, but at the sacrifice either of strength or lightness, unless narrow rungs of a hard wood, such as oak, be used. Moreover, square notches are not so easy to cut out as triangular.
'We have taken great pains with her, answered the gentle mother, evidently taking this as a great compliment, while the daughter was tingling with indignation. She, bred up by mother, and aunt, and Mary Nugent, to be barely presentable.
"I remember the chaos my father's tool-house always was in; it never was in order and we all liked it the better because it wasn't." Celestina sighed and turned away. "Ain't it just the irony of fate," murmured she to Bob, "that after slickin' up every room in the house so'st it would be presentable, Willie should tow them folks from New York out into the woodshed?
"But but if I never marry again?" she persisted. "Then unless, of course, you dismiss me I shall be with you for all time," he said. She made a slight, involuntary movement, and he took his hand away. "Will you think it over before you decide?" he said. "I will come to you, as soon as I am presentable, for your answer. For the present, would you not be wise to go back to your friends?
You see he may have married out of gratitude some grisette, some little working-woman, who nursed him through illness, one of those women who are not presentable; that would be thoroughly in character. Happily, in law there are no good or bad marriages; this one I hold to be unimpeachable.
"Don't be absurd, Maggie," cried my father, getting angry. "Can't cook bring it in?" "No one can cook a dinner and serve it, too," answered my mother, impatiently. "Besides, she's not presentable." "What about Fan?" whispered my father. My mother merely looked. It was sufficient. "Paul?" suggested my father. "Thank you," retorted my mother.
When I think of her I am unmanned; and if I let my thoughts fall back upon myself, I am such as you saw me that night in Devon helpless, and no very presentable figure. But you do not picture her to me.
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