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Weakly blue-eyed and spectacled, hooked up primly in chaste drab woollen and capped with white muslin, though scarcely thirty, she stood among her flock and eyed the fierce combatants with an utter lack of command of the situation. She was a country minister's daughter, and had never taught until her father's death.
It was this desire to get back to the old simplicity of life that drove her so often to her brother and sister in their cramped boarding-house. "Why don't you read some improving books," said Jean primly. "I wish I had your chance. If Mrs. Jarvis had taken a fancy to me I'd be a Ph.D. some day." Elizabeth regarded her in silent wonder.
The sister of the philosopher sat up stiffly. What crudeness! It was always so with this strange young man. "Mr. Renouard! How can you compare the superstitious fancies of your horrible savages with the manifestations . . . " Words failed her. She broke off with a very faint primly angry smile. She was perhaps the more offended with him because of that flutter at the beginning of the conversation.
I stared and stared, but failed to recognise my friend of the north. I was too far away to see his ears, and his face was quite strange to me. "I hope," I whispered primly to the constable, "that Mrs. Dawson is sure he is her husband." "She ought to be. Aren't you sure?" "Not yet; I am not near enough to see properly. That Dawson, is not a bit like those others whom I know." "That Dawson!
"I thank you, miss, for that; and if I am his mother, there ain't a sweeter, dearer, better boy lives than him. And if I ain't much as says it, thar ain't a sweeter, dearer, angeler teacher lives than he's got." Miss Mary, sitting primly behind her desk, with a ruler over her shoulder, opened her gray eyes widely at this, but said nothing.
"It's the Portia Person who is talking with Maman " she assured Mademoiselle gravely, "she looks like a man but she's really a lady " The Portia Person was surely as gentle as a lady when he hurried into the garden a little later and sent Mademoiselle back to his client by the fireside. He looked down at Felice she was embroidering that day, seated primly before the ebony tambour frame.
"And brains are mighty useful things, even in our business," Mary replied seriously; "particularly in our business." "I should say they were," Garson agreed. "You have proved that." Aggie came back, putting on her gloves, and cocking her small head very primly under the enormous hat that was garnished with costliest plumes.
She sat with her small feet set primly on the ground. Her hands were folded in her lap. Dalton was used to girls who lounged or who hung fatuously on his words, as if they had set themselves to please him. But Becky had no arts. She was frank and unaffected, and apparently not unconscious of Dalton's charms. The whole thing was, he felt, going to be rather stimulating.
The prospect of this wild, nude animal in Van Cheele's primly ordered house was certainly an alarming one. "If you don't go. I shall have to make you," said Van Cheele. The boy turned like a flash, plunged into the pool, and in a moment had flung his wet and glistening body half-way up the bank where Van Cheele was standing.
Lavington moved proudly and primly back from the bed, with a face that seemed to say through its tears, 'I at least am responsible for nothing that occurs from this interview. Lancelot did not see her either: he walked straight up towards the bed as if he were treading on his own ground. His heart was between his lips, and yet his whole soul felt as dry and hard as some burnt-out volcano-crater.
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