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Updated: June 13, 2025
"It is really time that she should learn to comport herself more staidly, instead of running about like a wild thing," Mrs. Cunningham said, one day, as she and the Squire stood after breakfast looking out of the open window at Mark and Millicent. "Time enough, my dear lady, time enough. Let her enjoy life while she can.
"Glad to see you here so promptly, Inspector," he said. "A shocking business, very. Is this the doctor? I am Dr. Romain ..." Dr. Redstone bowed with alacrity. "A great privilege, sir," he said staidly. "I have followed your work...." But the other did not let him finish. "Shot through the heart ... instantaneous death ... severe haemorrhage ... the pistol is there ... in his hand.
The ladies of the 'smart set' in Edinburgh wear French fripperies and chiffons, as do their sisters every where, but the other women of society dress a trifle more staidly than their cousins in London, Paris, or New York.
But she had cut it off when starting her arduous war work, and the lack of it altered her amazingly, all the more that she did not wear her short hair "bobbed," in what had become the prevailing fashion, but brushed back from her low forehead, and staidly held in place by a broad, black, snood-like ribbon. He looked to his right, down the old-fashioned, almost square dining table.
The girl is bringing up the tea, and I'm positively dying for a cup and a sit-down. Of course this" turning gaily round on me, standing there like a great gawk, volubly cursing my shirt-sleeves under my breath "is the incomparable Oliver! Charmed to meet you, sir!" I bowed, and Margaret said staidly, "Yes, my lady. This is Master Oliver Wheatman of the Hanyards.
I am to blame for the solitude of our life here in James's Court, but to you I do not need to tell the reason of that. The Lord give you his guidance in leading the young man in the right way." So far Gilbert Peden's letter had run staidly and in character like the spoken words of the writer. But here it broke off.
For it should concern ghosts, dreams, omens, coincidences, good-and-bad luck, warnings, and true vaticinations: no childish collection, however, of unsupported trumpery, but authenticated cases staidly evidenced, and circumstantially detailed; no Mother Goose-cap's tales, no Dick the Ploughman's dreams, no stories from the 'Terrific Register, nor fancies of hysterical females in Adult asylums; even Merlin witch-finders, and Taliesins should be excluded: and, in lieu of all such common-places, I should propose an anecdotic treatise in the manner scientifical.
But when a little figure slipped down the road towards the forbidden place a moment later, she was watching behind her blinds. She was groaning as if in pain. The little figure began to run staidly. Aunt Olivia groaned again. The child was in a hurry to get there she couldn't wait to walk! There was guilt in every motion of the little figure. "And she runs like a Plummer," groaned Aunt Olivia.
Morally he was on stilts for the moment, and the sense of elevation was as novel as it was insecure. "I know you are a good girl, Molly," he observed staidly, "that is why I am so anxious to be your friend." "Is there nothing more that I can do for you?" she inquired, with frigid reserve, as she took up the lantern. "Yes, one thing you can shake hands."
For one man, having a lack of imagining, would scoff, and another, maybe, to take it very staidly, but some would build Fancy upon the tellings of the Records, and make foolish and fantastic that which had groundings in Truth; and thus is it ever. But to the most Peoples of the Pyramid, there was no deep conviction nor thought of any great hid World afar in the darkness.
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