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'You are kind, said the Countess, smiling internally at the vulgar creature's misconception of Evan's requirements. 'Did he ever talk much about Mary Fence? asked Mrs. Wishaw. "Polly Fence," he used to say, "sweet Polly Fence!" 'Oh! I think so. Frequently, observed the Countess. Mrs. Fiske primmed her mouth. She had never heard the great Mel allude to the name of Fence.
The pictures on the walls were crooked; the rugs were awry; the vases were full of faded flowers; the dust lay in heaps literally in heaps. "What are we coming to?" Mrs. Davis asked herself, and then primmed up her unbeautiful mouth. Jerry and Carl had been whooping and sliding down the banisters as she came through the hall. They did not see her and continued whooping and sliding, and Mrs.
If you could see what an object you are, I think you would try to imitate Miss Clara, who is always a model of elegant repose." Miss West primmed up her lips, and settled a fold in her ninth flounce, as Mrs. Carroll spoke, while the whole group fixed their eyes with dignified disapproval on the invader of their refined society.
'It is at Steynham. Rosamund primmed her lips at the success of her probing touch; but she was unaware of the chief reason for his doting on those fair locks, and how they coloured his imagination since the day of the drive into Bevisham. 'Now leave me, my dear Nevil, she said. 'Lord Romfrey will soon be here, and it is as well for the moment that you should not meet him, if it can be avoided.
Miss Paynham primmed her mouth, admitting to herself her inability to repeat such a tale; an act that she deemed not 'quite like a lady. She had previously come to the conclusion that Mrs. Warwick, with all her generous qualities, was deficient in delicate sentiment owing perhaps to her coldness of temperament. Like Dacier also, she failed to comprehend the patronage of Mr.
His lips were primmed so close that his mouth was hardly discernible, and his dark deep eye flashed gleams of holy indignation on the godless set, but particularly on his brother. His presence acted as a mildew on all social intercourse or enjoyment; the game was marred, and ended ere ever it was well begun.
"I hope the Vaughns are not fine grown-up people. Do you know anything about them, Jo?" asked Meg. "Only that there are four of them. Laurie knew them abroad, and liked the boys. I fancied, from the way he primmed up his mouth in speaking of her, that he didn't admire Kate much." "I'm so glad my French print is clean, it's just the thing and so becoming!" observed Meg complacently.
"I thank you, Cis, and Tony also, who loves me. But if your news be right, I have a duty to do. I am of Cromwell's party, as you and Tony are of the King's. You would not have me run from danger." She primmed her pretty mouth. "You do not run, you are carried off. Remember your promise." "But a promise given under duress is not valid in law." "You are a gentleman, sir, before you are a lawyer.
The following Monday Anne surprised Marilla by coming down from her room with her basket of books on her arm and hip and her lips primmed up into a line of determination. "I'm going back to school," she announced. "That is all there is left in life for me, now that my friend has been ruthlessly torn from me. In school I can look at her and muse over days departed."
You say the sun hasn't shone since I left. Are you by any chance paying me a compliment? Or are you merely stating a fact? As Pet Marjorie would say, I am primmed up with majestic pride because of the compliments I receive. One lady, whose baby I held for a little this morning, told me I had such a sweet, unspoiled disposition!
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