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Updated: June 11, 2025
She was almost always alone, and was never troubled with any companions; she seemed to shun the house, hide herself in the park when the bell announced some unexpected visits, and when one of her aunts, Madame de Pleissac, said to her one day: "Do you think that you will ever find a husband with your stand-offish manners?" She replied with a burst of laughter: "Oh!
"Oh, she feels strange at first," said Molly by way of excusing her English cousin. "After while she will be more 'folksy, as Luella says." "Well then, when she wants to come with us she can say so. I shall not ask her, I know. She is just like what I was afraid she would be stand-offish and airish.
But when things were going right, they always had time for a word of praise and an appreciative smile. Even the sharp eyes of little Wegstetten could look quite good-humoured on occasion. But Senior-lieutenant Brettschneider always remained stand-offish, looking as if he had swallowed a poker. All this incensed our honest Vogt.
"The shower seems to be holding up," he said, "and I'll toddle along before it starts afresh. Good-night! I say you didn't mind my coming to you this way, did you? By Jove! I thought you were a little stand-offish at first. But you know what I meant?" "Perfectly, and I thank you." They shook hands again.
She looks something like your chum, Nordic Gray, laughing sort of eyes, and soft, light hair, and a saucy little nose like your own." Later, in a reply to a question from Miss Eunice, he wrote: "No, I haven't put in my church letter yet. I took it with me every Sunday for awhile, but I can't get screwed up to the point, somehow. People here are so stand-offish with strangers.
Heman Daniels answered the question. He spoke with authority. "Mr. Holliday is a fine gentleman," he announced, emphatically. "I've seen him two or three times since he came. He's a millionaire, but it doesn't make him pompous or stand-offish. He and I spoke er conversed together as friendly and easy as if we had known each other all our lives. He is very much interested in East Wellmouth.
Almost immediately after that Wilson went away, but it was three hours later before Caroline and Wilf, having danced their fill, emerged into the coolness of the midnight air. As they walked down the dim promenade together, Wilf was still talking about Wilson. "Some chaps say he is so stand-offish, but I always hold that people treat you as you treat them.
But he was decidedly stand-offish and extraordinarily quiet. Tom wanted to ask outright what the trouble was, but, for some reason, he held back. As the days passed, Steve's manner became more natural and he ceased looking at Tom as though, to quote the latter's unspoken simile, he was a new sort of an animal in a zoo!
For Maudie in company was apt to be a little stiff and stand-offish in her manner. "I say," he said, "there's something I want you to do for me," and Ransome, in his recklessness, his magnificence, said "Right-O!" He said afterward that he had gathered from the expression of his friend's face that his trouble was financial, a matter of five bob, or fifteen at the very worst.
I'm not offering you charity. Perhaps you may have heard that I've been left a lot of money in trust. It's your money as much as mine; if it's anybody's it's God's money. I felt I just couldn't pass your door this morning, and I spoke to you, though I was frightfully scared you looked so stand-offish.... Now listen.
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