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"Stop," exclaimed the old Englishman, rising to his feet. "I didn't know it was you at first. I hadn't dreamed I couldn't believe you would be so good, so kind to me. Oh," he cried, with a sudden sharp breath, "oh, you ARE kind. I I you have have made me very happy." "No, no," exclaimed Miss Baker, ready to sob. "It was unlady-like. You will you must think ill of me." She stood in the hall.
She looked up at him and smiled as he joined her, but went on with her low, sweet whistling all the same. "I like that better than the singing," he said, when at last it came to an end with the music. "You ought not to, Mr. Halloway. Don't you know it's very unlady-like to whistle? Mrs. Upjohn puts Maria to bed for it." "Dear me. I must take care she doesn't ever catch me at it.
Tudor was led by her weakness to conduct herself in an unlady-like manner; but you, with her example before your eyes, and in a mood to reflect, permitted yourself to remark upon her conduct in a way calculated to give pain." "In the name of wonder, what are you driving at, Mrs. Sunderland? No one but you heard any remark I made." "I wish I could think so."
She knew, too, she must not hesitate. "Eight pounds," she plunged, and added foolishly, "fifteen pounds will see me clear of everything." She muttered some unlady-like comment upon herself under her breath and engaged in secret additions. Mr. Stanley determined to improve the occasion. He seemed to deliberate. "Well," he said at last slowly, "I'll pay it. I'll pay it.
She asked if Alice had returned from her walk. Receiving a reply in the negative, she went out into the garden. 'Adela looks happy to-day, said Letty. 'That article in the paper has pleased her very much. 'I really hope she won't do such a thing again, remarked Mrs. Waltham, with dignified disapproval. 'It seems very unlady-like to write letters to the newspapers. 'But it was brave of her.
I never thought a pupil of this establishment could be guilty of such unlady-like language as fell from your lips, and it grieves me to know that I have in my school a young girl capable of cherishing the evil spirit of animosity against a fellow-creature. What have you to say in defence of your conduct?
"These little restless ways you have are very unpleasant," she said; "my girls never did such things. I don't know where you get your unlady-like habits; not from your father, I'm sure. I suppose it's because you don't go out at all; you never see anybody. There, that reminds me. I have had a letter from Arabella Forsythe.
Why then desecrate it, by those fierce collisions with him, which attend so many of our public discussions? How unlady-like are contention, violence, and passion. How certainly will woman sacrifice her best influence over man by consenting to stir his spirit to hostility, in ardent debate.
To have run from his presence would have been considered both disrespectful and unlady-like, and would not have been permitted for a moment. When the trees had swallowed her up from his sight, Mr. Anstruther turned and walked in the other direction. And there was a perturbed look on his face.
"You seem to think things clean and mend themselves, Miss Amelia," said poor Nurse one day. "No, I don't," said Amelia, rudely. "I think you do them; what are you here for?" But though she spoke in this insolent and unlady-like fashion, Amelia really did not realize what the tasks were which her carelessness imposed on other people.
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