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Close by was the inn, where the men sat on benches in the tap-room in grave discourse over their pipes and beer. Wishing to make their acquaintance, I went in and sat down among them, and found them a little shy not to say stand-offish, at first.
"It'll come, though, if you're not more stand-offish with her you mark my words. Keep them in their place that's what I always do with my servants and governesses," said Mrs. Rainham without the slightest idea that she was saying anything peculiar. "Now, I'll go and put my things out on my bed, and as soon as you've finished that you can come up and pack for me."
Carlyon said to her confidentially, "Your friend improves on acquaintance; I thought him a bit stand-offish and highty-tighty yesterday, but I see now it was only mannerism." "Some people are difficult to know at first," returned Elizabeth thoughtfully, but she also spoke in a lowered tone. "Mr.
Most people would not be able to diagnose Elizabeth Templeton's character correctly at the end of one short week. When I was first introduced to her, thirteen or fourteen years ago, I told Alick that I should never get on with any one who was so reserved and so stand-offish, but I soon changed my opinion.
Now he was ready to acknowledge that he had failed to give Terry her due; with a sudden access of irritation it was borne in upon him that if she was fully minded to be stand-offish and unpleasant, he had something more than just a kid of a girl to deal with. Frowning, he sought his tobacco and papers. "Going to eat?" asked Terry carelessly. "Or not?"
He was spending too much money; he was getting too little to show for it; he was selling too much stock too cheap." "What's the matter with you?" cried the girl, surprising him with the heat of her words and the sudden darkening of her eyes. "Why do you insist on being so downright stand-offish and stiff and aloof? What have I done to you that you can't be decent?
Brent; quiet, old-fashioned folk we are, but glad to see you, sir; though I wish the occasion had been a merrier one dear, dear!" Brent made the girl a polite bow and, not wishing to show himself stand-offish, took the glass which she mixed and handed to him. He turned to Crood. "It's not a pleasant occasion for me, sir," he said.
"Stand-offish should be your expression when waiting at table; like as if you'd heard it all before several times, no matter how funny they talk. As for splitting, I shiver at the bare thought." "Well, I didn't do it, really. I just got my hand over my mouth in time." "And what did that other woman happen to be doing?" asked Mrs Bowldler. "I partic'l'ly noticed," said Palmerston.
"You are a home boy, any one can see that." "I know when I am well off!" said the young doctor. Geoffrey Strong certainly was well off. In some singular way, which no one professed wholly to understand, he had won the confidence of both the "Blyth girls," who were usually considered the most exclusive and "stand-offish" people in Elmerton. He made no secret of being in love with Miss Vesta.
And Joe's stand-offish sulkiness and complete lack of confidence riled him, got on his nerves. His fun and nonsense took a biting, sarcastic turn, at which Joe's eyes glittered occasionally, though the young man turned unheeding aside. Then again Joe would be full of odd, whimsical fun, outshining Albert himself.
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