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Never in all the forty-five intervening years had he seen such a wall on such a night, its base in velvety darkness and its topmost half shining ghostly as plaster does in moonlight, without his hands remembering the queer pleasure it had been to crush crisp muslin, without his heart remembering the joy it had been to coax from primness its first consent to kisses.
"I shall know when you give it to me," he replied stiffly, and not to hurt his feeling she gave him a thimble. "Now," said he, "shall I give you a kiss?" and she replied with a slight primness, "If you please."
His attack on the formality and holiday primness of the dramatic probabilities, of the excessive symmetry of the French versification, declamation, and mode of acting, was just; but, at the same time, he objected to all theatrical elevation, and refused to allow to the characters anything like a perfect mode of communicating what was passing within them.
It seems natural to a man of decayed fortune to shut up his hall-door and sneak in and out of his habitation by some obscure portal. Now all was changed; a kind of antique primness, which had no taint of cockney stiffness, pervaded the scene.
All the littlenesses in the social customs of girls; all their raw, untrained, ungenerous acts, their indulgences, their prejudices, are the weak and despised signs of unwomanliness. Womanliness is not primness, let me be understood.
Adventure V. The Musgrave Ritual An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that, although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind, and although also he affected a certain quiet primness of dress, he was none the less in his personal habits one of the most untidy men that ever drove a fellow-lodger to distraction.
Standing there in the dim light she did not look so much older than her niece. Her figure had the slim angularity and primness which are sometimes seen in elderly women who are not matrons, and she had donned a little white lace cap at thirty, but her face had still a delicate bloom, and the wistful wonder of expression which belongs to youth.
I was brought up in the freer, less conventional atmosphere of South Australia, and this English life, with its proprieties and its primness, is not congenial to me. But the main reason lies in the one fact which is notorious to everyone, and that is that Sir Eustace was a confirmed drunkard. To be with such a man for an hour is unpleasant.
When Lady Agatha had finished Miss Pringle said: "I suppose that you can prove that you are really Lady Agatha Fairhaven?" For answer Lady Agatha went to one of her trunks and opened it. She drew therefrom a letter, and passed it over without a word. As Miss Pringle read it, her face lighted up. She did not lose her primness, but her suspicion seemed altogether to depart.
What, in the first place, wilt thou ask, shall be done with Hickman? who will be in full parade of dress and primness, in order to show the old aunt what a devilish clever fellow of a nephew she is to have. What! I'll tell thee Hickman, in good manners, will leave the women in their cabin and, to show his courage with his breeding, be upon deck Well, and suppose he is!
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