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But she had allowed her great prize to escape from her fingers. But the prize was not yet utterly beyond her grasp. To recover it, to recover even the smallest chance of recovering it, there would be need of great exertion. She must be bold, sudden, unwomanlike, and yet with such display of woman's charm that he at least should discover no want.
Lothair is falser even than Vivian Grey, and Lady Corisande, the daughter of the Duchess, more inane and unwomanlike than Venetia or Henrietta Temple. It is the very bathos of story-telling. I have often lamented, and have as often excused to myself, that lack of public judgment which enables readers to put up with bad work because it comes from good or from lofty hands.
She described the nuns mumbling their prayers, and punctuating them with irate commands to the children; the many and various rules, the Mére Supérieure, the food, the clothes, the eccentricities of Monsieur le Directeur. She had the rare and unwomanlike art of witty description, though it assorted badly with her tragic face and unsmiling eyes.
As the time to leave approached, Bart found his disinclination to go even stronger; and he finally told his mother he would remain until the next day. She, unwomanlike, did not like the idea of his yielding to this reluctance to go. "He was ready, nothing detained him, why not have the final pain of going over at once?" He made no reply, but lounged restlessly about.
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