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As for capability, I tell you I can sail all around the average broken captain or promoted able seaman you find in the South Seas. And you know I am a navigator." "But being my partner," he said coolly, "makes you none the less a lady." "Thank you for telling me that my contemplated conduct is unladylike." She arose, tears of anger and mortification in her eyes, and went over to the phonograph.
Carteret your last piece of art needlework " "What nonsense you talk, Violet. However, if you prefer the children at Stony Cross to the society of your mother and your mother's friends, you must take your own way." "And you will forgive me in advance, dear mamma?" "My love, I have nothing to forgive. I only deplore a bent of mind which I can but think unladylike."
"You called her 'Avenger. What has she been up to now?" Blake handed him the red-hand letter. To his surprise Bernie burst out angrily: "How dare she?" "What?" "It's most unladylike begging a gentleman for gifts. I'll see that she apologizes." "If you do I'll punch your head. She couldn't do anything unladylike if she tried." "I don't approve " "Nonsense!"
"Why, I should like to knock them down; only don't mention my ideas. Madame will bother me, and say it is unladylike; and perhaps she will give me Theresa Tidy's maxims to do into French as a punishment." Serena. "Then we won't tell on any account; such a fate would be so horrible. But I agree with you that it would be dreadfully stupid to go home in three months.
"What's that?" asked Mollie, with an unladylike sniff; "that lovely smell?" "It's wattle," Prudence answered. "It's in the fields over there. You can smell it for miles sometimes, in the country; it's a nice smell. Let's go and look at Papa's parcels. He went to see Mrs. Macfarline at her toyshop to-day, and when he goes there he always brings something home. It's a beautiful shop.
It seemed as if the instructor called her name and then came walking down from the platform, thump, thump, thump, in her broad-soled shoes. It was unladylike to thump so heavily, thought Robbie Belle in the midst of her confused dismay over having lost the place in the text as well as forgotten the translation. The thumping sharpened to a rat-tat-tat upon the bedroom door.
The automatic sounding machine was being used at regular intervals to give them some sort of an idea as to their position by a comparison of the depths obtained with those shown on the chart, but even then the eccentricity of the tidal currents and, let it be said, the erratic and most unladylike behaviour of the Rapier's standard compass, made navigation a matter of some conjecture and a good deal of guesswork.
"We-ll, is dat so?" the yellow rascal drawled. "So youh-all's de new la'rd, eh? Well, ah'm de king o' de Sawdust Pile, an' mah house is mah castle. Git dat, Mistah La'rd?" Donald turned toward Nan. "I'm going to have trouble here, Nan. Please go in the house." "Proceed," she replied simply. "I have a most unwomanly and unladylike desire to see that beast manhandled."
What introduction do you need at a stall at a bazaar, except to pay a couple of sovereigns for a shilling's worth of scent? Who told you I wanted to speak to Kate Harman? I'll tell you what it is, Baby; it's very unladylike to impute motives. 'I never did anything of the kind, said his sister, hotly. 'Never.
"Very likely he would," replied the General, dryly, "and I must say his talk about Queen Mary seemed rather bad taste. But that's not the question, Kate, which is your conduct in leaving a place of worship in such an . . . unladylike fashion." "What?" for this was new talk from her father. "As no Carnegie ought to have done.
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