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One after another was canvassed and dismissed. Mr. A. had eccentric table-manners; Miss B. wriggled and squirmed when she talked; Mrs. C. was much too lavish of inappropriate epithets; Mr. X.'s conversation, on the contrary, was quite bald and bare from the utter lack of those parts of speech; Miss Y. had a nice face, and Mrs. Z. a pretty hand. Just here Königin suddenly burst out laughing.
Miss Thompson meant that Adelle spoke fairly correct English, drawled her A's, wore her clothes as if she owned them, had sufficiently good table-manners to dine in public, and could hold her own in the conversation of girls of her kind.
Liosha kissed Barbara and shook hands with Jaffery and me, bade us be seated and put us at our ease with a social grace which could not have been excelled by the admirable Mrs. That maligned lady had performed her duties during the past two years with characteristic ability. Parenthetically I may remark that Liosha's table-manners and formal demeanour were now irreproachable. Mrs.
We are forgetting our table-manners, it is 'first come first served' now-a-days. I wonder if Robinson oh, no! he had no one but his man Friday to contend against. No schooner; no change in the weather; tobacco giving out, and not a grain of good humor to be had in the market. To bed, very cross. "May 22d. "No one felt like going to work this morning. Affairs began to look mutinous.
Twice a year she dutifully visited him and put his house in order. Her children rarely could be induced to accompany her. They detested their fat garrulous unkempt uncle, and only treated him civilly out of the goodness of their hearts and respect for their mother. On Christmas Day he invariably dined with them, and his meagre presents by no means atoned for his atrocious table-manners.
Every private inclination is a fad, and even fads have their fixed forms. An offence against table-manners is banned like an attack on the Church. Nature is mastered with consideration and intelligence, whether the problem is the breeding of sheep or the ruling of India. The assurance, self-command and art of ruling which spring from forms are lacking in Germany.
He knew that she was as fond of cabbage as he was himself. "Did you ever hear it said," he asked her suddenly, "that eating too much cabbage causes long ears?" Henrietta Hen's heart began to thump. She dropped a bit of cabbage out of her bill, letting it fall as if it burned her. And usually she was very careful as to her table-manners.
The table as an opportunity for the grace of courtesy, and the relation of this grace to Christian character. Training children in listening as well as in talking at table. Do you regard table-talk and table-manners as having any directly religious values? Why? Much that has been said so far has had in mind only the problems of dealing with younger children in the life of the home.
"Of course she don't. She loves him. That's what I was tryin' to get at, anyway." He fumbled at a huge bunch of little red flowers called "Hummingbird's Trumpets." He arranged the hastily constructed bouquet to suit him. Then he laid it on the rock. "Accordin' to the latest book on good table-manners, or 'How to Be Happy Though Dressed Up, this here bouquet is the proper thing.
I didn't think his table-manners But we'll sit here and regard the flora and fauna till he comes. He'll see us through." "Yes! He will! Honestly, dad " She said it with the first touch of hero-worship since she had seen an aviator loop loops. "Isn't he, oh, effective! Aren't you glad he's here to help us, instead of somebody like Jeff Saxton?"
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