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But other thoughts also passed through it; there was so much it had seen, so much it had a desire for, perhaps just as much as the whole of the city authorities; but it didn't say so, for it was a well-behaved old lamp it would not insult any one, least of all its superiors.
But now she had come back to the friends, the horses, the dogs, the rooms, the gardens, the fields, the forests of youth, and was going to be the real Vixen again; the wild, thoughtless, high-spirited girl whom Squire Tempest and all the peasantry round about had loved. "I have been ridiculously well-behaved," she said to herself, "quite a second edition of mamma.
It wasn't jest her looks, for she always was as pretty as a picture, but she was as nice-mannered, well-behaved a gyirl as you'd want to see. There was jest as much difference betwixt her then and what she used to be as there is betwixt a tame fox and a wild one.
With a sigh he wriggled backwards out of his shelter. Seizing the moment when his sister had at length pressed down the lid and his mother was kneeling to lock it, he slipped out of the room and betook himself to the water-side, where he fell into deep thought. This happened on Tuesday. During Wednesday and the morning of Thursday the child was extraordinarily well-behaved.
There were only three; an old jeweller who had been visiting his branch shops in America, and two demi-mondaines from the rue de la Paix, the most timid and well-behaved persons aboard, vestals with bright eyes and disdainful noses who held themselves stiffly aloof in this uncongenial atmosphere.
Madame Bernard left them alone for an hour in the sitting-room and then came in to say good-bye to Giovanni herself, bringing Coco perched upon her wrist, but silent and well-behaved. Angela was pale, and perhaps her deep mourning made her look paler than she was, but her face was as quiet and collected as Giovanni's. He took leave of the governess almost affectionately.
Phyllis was one of those girls for whom mothers ought to be more uneasy than for the wilder and naughtier children who cause them perpetual annoyance. She was so proper in all her ways, and so well-behaved as never to seem in fault.
He looked down at her with a large indulgence. 'That's right, he said. 'We aren't hooligans, but we hope the fact will be overlooked. If everybody said we were nice, well-behaved women, who'd come to hear us? Not the men. The people dissolved in laughter, but she was grave enough. 'Men tell us it isn't womanly for us to care about politics. How do they know what's womanly?
And I know not what has turned you into so quiet and well-behaved a girl," responded her mother. "But run along, and be sure and inquire if there be any news of the rascal who made way with the liberty tree." Anna started off very sedately, measuring her steps and holding her head a little on one side as she had noticed that Melvina sometimes did.
I saw you standing in the window, and I could see at once that you were beautiful, and good, and kind." "I never heard of such impudence," continued Miss Truefitt. "I surprised myself," admitted Mr. Catesby. "In the usual way I am very quiet and well-behaved, not to say shy." Miss Truefitt looked at him scornfully. "I think that you had better stop your nonsense and go," she remarked.
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