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Updated: May 9, 2025
"There is your sword, Mr Vanslyperken," said Moggy; who, during the whole of the scene had kept up a retenue very different from her usual manners. Vanslyperken took his sword, and appeared to feel his courage return why not? he was armed, and in company with only one woman, and he sought revenge. He rang the bell, and the landlady appeared.
Ay, Richie, there is this use in adversity; it teaches one to play sword and target with etiquette and retenue better than any crowned king in Europe. For me now to cross to her summons immediately would be a gross breach of homage to Lady Wilts, who was inspired to be the first to break through the fence of scandal environing me. But I must still show that I am independent.
In Grace, too, this simplicity was chastened by perfect decorum and retenue of deportment; the exuberance of the new school of manners not having helped to impair the dignity of her character, or to weaken the charm of diffidence.
And if she had only shown the accustomed northern retenue, and merely looked all that she had to say 'preserved her dignity' our womanly critic would have been completely satisfied." "But, Merthyr, to parade her feelings, and then to go on appealing!" "On the principle that she ought to be ashamed of them, she was wrong." "If you had heard her utter abandonment!"
After going through the street alongside the hill, they returned over the wooden bridge which crosses the Retenue, passed close to the railway, and came out again on the market place, when, suddenly, a quarrel arose between Monsieur Pinipesse, the collector, and Monsieur Tournevau about an edible mushroom which one of them declared he had found in the neighborhood.
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