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With sufficient amplitude to conceal a look of primness that often arises from symmetry, we observe a certain negligent flowing of its leafy robes that adds to its dignity a grace which is apparent to all.
Among the starved and bitter, but quite human, faces was one head, neat but old-fashioned, with the powder of the 18th century and a certain almost pert primness in the dress which marked the conventions of the upper middle-class about 1790.
Nevertheless, she too had a good heart if a rough hand, and, though eccentric almost to insanity, as one so often finds with people living out of the line and influence of public opinion, yet was as sound at the core as she was rude and odd in the husk. She was a small woman, lean, wrinkled, and with a curious mixture of primness and slovenliness in her dress.
Frieda looked pleased, but she only said sedately: "We were children when you were in Berlin, Hannah. Now it is proper for us to act like grown-ups." "You were awfully grown-up in that pillow fight last night!" Instantly the mask of primness vanished from Frieda's face, and roguish twinkles showed themselves. "Don't let me ever catch you turning prig, Frieda Lange," advised Hannah.
Leonora saw them in the dining-room consuming the tea which Bessie had determined should be the final word of teas; and she saw Bessie, in that perfect black of hers and that miraculous muslin, waiting at table with a superlative and cold primness that covered a desire to take Ethel in her arms and kiss her.
Lawrence sat down in a deck chair and Isabel's smile broadened: she was laughing at him and teasing him with her eyes, though what she said remained conventional to the point of primness. "Is Laura coming to see me? How sweet of her! But what a pity she couldn't come with you! Why couldn't she?" "I believe she stayed to look after my cousin." "How is Major Clowes?
At the back were the kitchen and offices, looking out upon a paved court-yard containing a well, and backed by farm buildings. Both were lovely; beautiful women in the typical style of island beauty, which not even the primness of their somewhat old-fashioned costume could wholly disguise.
It was followed by many and more informal gatherings at the house, and Mrs Pottinger so far unbent if that term could be used of one who never altered her primness of manner as to join in a game of poker and even permitted herself to win. But by the end of six weeks another change in their feelings towards Prosper seemed to creep insidiously over the camp.
Georgy still believed in the infallibility of her native town, and the primness of Barlingford reigned supreme in the gothic villa.
James, with her pretty primness. "How the child will love the 'Raiders, and the 'Men of the Moss Hags. Yes, certainly she ought to see 'gray Galloway." "Galloway be it, then," said Sir S., looking pleased. "But it won't be gray at this time of year. It will be purple and gold and emerald, and silvered with rivers running between flowery banks.
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