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Oh, no, not like little Miss Butterfly! But still, there are keys and keys in music; and if every tune was pitched to the self-same key, even the tenderest, what a monotonous, dreary world it would be to live and sing in after all. Perhaps a man might make himself a little shrine not wholly without sweet savour of pure incense for beautiful, stately, queenlike Hilda Tregellis too!
'The congress now ceases to sit, and the treaty is not concluded, was all she said. She rose, bowed to him, 'Good morning, General, and turned her back. He sighed. He was a free man. But this could not be denied whatever the lady's age, she was a grand woman in her carriage, and when looking angry, she had a queenlike aspect that raised her out of the reckoning of time.
Was it, indeed, Mademoiselle Marguerite who was speaking, the proud young girl with a queenlike bearing, whose voice rang out like crystal? Was it she indeed, who imitated the harsh, coarse dialect of the lower classes with such accuracy of intonation?
'Surely she is woman enough to be fussed a little about her marriage? 'Oh, dear, no! she takes the whole affair with a queenlike and supernatural indifference. She is either a fool or a very great philosopher, and there is something grand in the serene obscurity that envelopes her, and Rachel laughed a very little. 'I must, I suppose, pay my respects; but to-morrow will be time enough.
Berkeley, she said quietly: 'not that way, please: you'll hurt me if you do: you know that's not the way I look at the matter. Why not simply "Hilda"? Berkeley clasped her hand eagerly and raised it to his lips. 'Hilda, then, he said, kissing it twice over. 'It SHALL be Hilda. Hilda rose and stood before him erect in all her queenlike beauty.
To all this he made no reply; and as the sight of him only increased my indignation, I at length desired him to quit me. I trust you will pardon me for having spoken in as queenlike a manner as you could have done yourself. "Adieu, my sweet friend." This letter was far from satisfying me, and I determined upon striking a decisive blow.
Dubois's with his heart overwhelmed by the ignorance and debasement he had witnessed. Yet his courage and hopes were strong. P is a city by the sea. Built upon an elevated peninsula, surrounded by a country of manifold resources of beauty and fertility, with a fine, broad harbor, it sits queenlike in conscious power, facing with serene aspect the ever-restless waves that wash continually its feet.
I am writing tonight, and will enclose the note." It would rather take from her queenlike attitude, she thought; but as she had promised the kindness, it would not be graceful to dispute as to how it should be granted; so, under the guidance of the woman to whom her innocent youth was entrusted, she sealed her fate with her own hands.
And I remember only that her bearing was noble and her countenance most handsome, such as I had never seen before, nor did I think that there could be any woman so queenlike." Because he did not choose to say more, or because some wrinkle in Elfgiva's satin brow warned him off, he turned hastily to another topic. "Foolishly do we linger, when we have none too much time to get to covert.
But Ruth was being very brave, haughty, and queenlike, and for this the precise truth must sometimes be abandoned. The most precious thing in the world to Ruth was her dignity and who can blame her? She meant to keep it at no matter what costs. In a few minutes the bookstall on the platform attracted them as inevitably as a prone horse attracts a crowd.
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