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Let it suffice to say, that, by universal consent, I was preferred to Kean; and the only fault the most critical observer could find to the representative of Desdemona, was a rather unlady-like fondness for snuff. But, whatever little demerits our acting might have displayed, were speedily forgotten in a champagne supper.
THE fiendish and heartless conduct of a large number of the people of the South towards Union men during the war, and especially the unlady-like demeanor of rebel women at New Orleans and other points, is a matter that has passed into history. In few places were the women more abusive to those of Union proclivities than the female portion of the inhabitants of Greenville, Alabama.
She was, therefore, not at all in the mood to give up her friendship with the Dale girls. Now, there never was a girl less likely to please Miss Tredgold than this vulgarly dressed, loud-voiced, and unlady-like girl. Nancy was desired to abstain from visiting at The Dales, and the Dale girls were told that they were not to talk to Nancy.
He said this in so clever an imitation of their own introductions that it seemed a caricature. "Chapeaux bas!" the Colonel murmured, throwing Jane into the most unlady-like fit of giggles. "Where did it come from?" Bob asked later. He was riding with her a hundred yards behind the buggy that held the Colonel and Dale, the old rifle sticking out at the back like a bean pole.
Vera takes up the note and opens it. "May I have the crest, auntie?" clamours Tommy before she had read three words of it. "Is it about the horse he has offered you to ride?" asks his mother. But Vera answers nothing; she gets up quietly, and leaves the room without a word. "Extraordinary!" gasps Mrs. Daintree; "Vera's manners are certainly most abrupt and unlady-like at times, Marion.
"She is beautiful!" says Beatrice, emphatically, "and uncle Tom says " "Hush!" interrupts Helen, hurriedly. "Is not that the sound of wheels? Yes, it is the carriage." She flies to the door. "Take care, Helen," says Beatrice, anxiously; "don't open the door wide, don't let the servants think we have been waiting, it looks so bad so so unlady-like."
"Oh, Annette, I am so sorry; I am afraid that trouble may come out of this fuss, and then it is so wrong and unlady-like for you to be quarrelling that way. Do you know how old you are?" "I am almost fourteen years old." "Where was the teacher all this time? Did she know anything about it?"
She should do or say something unlady-like if she did, and she bade Tom drive her round the village, thus unconsciously giving the offending Edith a longer time in which to entertain and amuse the guest at Brier Hill, for Arthur St. Claire had come.
"No I am not" he whispered to himself. "It is a snore," and he gave a groan as he thought: "Bessie snoring! and such snores! who would imagine that she could do anything so vulgar and unlady-like! Heavens and earth, it is enough to raise the rafters! If I did not know Bessie was in there. I'd swear it was a man.
She began by expressing herself as deeply shocked and grieved at Jocelyn's behaviour, which was both dishonourable and unlady-like, and had given her father great pain. 'Dear old dad! I don't believe it, observed Jill, pursing her lips at this.
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