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People said there had not been such an ungenteel death in a good county family for years. Now I will go back to the time of Betty's riding off on the pillion behind her lover. They left the park by an obscure gate to the east, and presently found themselves in the lonely and solitary length of the old Roman road now called Long-Ash Lane.
But when at last she stood before the lady in the sealskin coat, realizing only what a miserable failure she had been, she could think of not one of the clever speeches she had prepared, but hung her head in a most ungenteel manner and said nothing. Her aunt's voice sounded like a forlorn hope as she presented her. "This is your namesake, Mrs. Jarvis," she said. Mrs.
"This transaction raised my temper some," writes Winslow in his Diary; and he proceeds to record his opinion that "it is the most ungenteel, ill-natured thing that ever I saw." He sent Monckton a quaintly indignant note, in which he observed that the affair "looks odd, and will appear so in future history;" but his commander, reckless of the judgments of posterity, gave him little satisfaction.
"There is not enough blue sky to make a cat a pair of breeches!" cries Bobby, despondently, and with his usual vulgarity. Sometimes I am tempted to fear that Bobby is hopelessly ungenteel ungenteel for life. He has now taken possession of another window, and is consulting the eastern sky. "A ransomless king, and a trouserless cat!
He had met and baffled many dangers in the course of his rude life, and these familiar dangers he could face with Spartan fortitude, almost with indifference; but he had never been hunted by a bloodhound, nor had he ever seen that brute's unerring instinct baffled by human cunning. Here then a sense of the supernatural combined with novelty to ungenteel his heart.
The steward chose to imitate the squire; and the attorney found it would be quite ungenteel to stand out. So gravy soups became very unfashionable in the parish of Weston; and I am sure if rich people did but think a little on this subject, they would become as unfashionable in many other places. When wheat grew cheaper, Mrs.
But as this might be considered ungenteel, I'll think of it. 'John? You've got the Basket with the Veal and Ham-Pie and things, and the bottles of Beer? said Dot. 'If you haven't, you must turn round again, this very minute. 'You're a nice little article, returned the Carrier, 'to be talking about turning round, after keeping me a full quarter of an hour behind my time.
If remonstrated with for his use of so ungenteel a vocabulary, he will endeavour, with considerable earnestness, to convince you that the bullocks perfectly understand what is said to them; and that they are so wayward in their disposition, that nothing short of such determined and forcible language is of any avail.
They observed that he was awkward and ungenteel, and had a heavy, clownish look; he was also silent and reserved, and had not said a single agreeable thing; if Mr Barlow chose to keep a school for carters and threshers, nobody would hinder him, but it was not proper to introduce such vulgar people to the sons of persons of fashion.
Without allowing myself to be disconcerted I advanced to the fire, spread out my hands before it for a minute, gave two or three deep "ahs" of comfort, and then turning round said: "Rather a damp night, gentlemen fire cheering to one who has come the whole way from Llandovery Taking a bit of a walk in Wales, to see the scenery and to observe the manners and customs of the inhabitants Fine country, gentlemen, noble prospects, hill and dale Fine people too open-hearted and generous; no wonder! descendants of the Ancient Britons Hope I don't intrude other room rather cold and smoking If I do, will retire at once don't wish to interrupt any gentleman in their avocations or deliberations scorn to do anything ungenteel or calculated to give offence hope I know how to behave myself ought to do so learnt grammar at the High School at Edinburgh."
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