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By her prettily exaggerated description of a heated, perspiring young man, darting to and fro, and muttering to himself in German, her hearers, Maurice included, were highly diverted and no one more than Mrs. Cayhill. "You puss, you puss!" she cried, wiping her eyes and shaking a finger at the naughty girl.
"Hope for fortune," said Cesarine, with an arch smile. "Gaudissart! Gaudissart!" exclaimed Anselme, when the quadrille was over, pressing the arm of his friend with Herculean force. "Succeed, or I'll blow my brains out! Success, and I shall marry Cesarine! she has told me so: see how lovely she is!" "Yes, she is prettily tricked out," said Gaudissart, "and rich. We'll fry her in oil."
You haven't heard Nugent's message yet. Listen to this! 'Present my best and kindest regards to the future Mrs. Isn't that prettily put? Come Lucilla! own that Nugent is worth listening to when he writes about you!" She turned towards him for the first time. The charm of the tone in which he spoke those words subdued her, in spite of herself.
Oh, auntie, it almost killed me when I heard he was dead, and there is a moan for him in my heart all the time." She adopted this form of speech because it had sounded prettily to herself when she said it to Mrs. Browne, who had believed in the moan, but Miss Betsey did not. "Ahem!" she said; "how much time have you spent with Archie the last ten years or so?" "Not as much as I wish I had now.
Some of us went every day to a spring called the Allerly well, about a quarter of a mile from the manse, and brought a large jug of its sparkling water for dinner. The evenings were cheerful; my aunt sang Scotch songs prettily, and told us stories and legends about Jedburgh, which had been a royal residence in the olden time.
There is also a garden prettily arranged, and kept in the nicest order, with kiosques and a jet d'eau, in fact there is no attraction omitted which could possibly contribute towards rendering the Villa a most desirable residence for every season; the charge is moderate, and the treatment in every respect the most liberal, the Doctor being in such a position that emolument is not an important object.
They require to be thoroughly cleansed from dirt and well washed with sea-water before being put into fresh. After our little water-party, we sallied forth to see the town, which is very prettily situated among plantations of mulberry-trees in the vicinity of the sea-coast.
The floors were usually either of hard wood plank, ill kept; or terraced, or tiled; some indeed were flagged with marble, but this was rare; and as for the luxury of a carpet, it was utterly unknown, the nearest approach to it being a grass mat, plaited prettily enough, called an estera.
In 1662 Catharine of Braganza, the "olivader-complexioned queen of low stature, but prettily shaped," whose teeth wronged her mouth by sticking a little too far out, brought it as portion of her dowry to Charles II. The 2nd, or Queen's Own Regiment, was raised to garrison the post, and sported its sea-green facings, the favourite colour of her Majesty, for long in the teeth of the threatening Moors.
Now this one looks best and now that; but the delicately coloured grey and yellow bird has the longest tail and can use it more prettily. Her tail is as much to her, both as ornament and to express emotions, as a fan to any flirtatious Spanish senora. One always thinks of these dainty feathered creatures as females.
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