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Updated: May 18, 2025
Thackeray has said somewhere that a well-brought-up Englishwoman is the completest of the works of God on this earth. My only wish is to verify this gallant affirmation in the case of my companion. She has put back her veil. Is she a young woman or an old girl? With these Englishwomen one never knows!
He wouldn't have done what he has done if he hadn't been. Shake, child, and " Brenda "shook," and then, without another word, she got up and hurried out of the room. "The girl's right!" said Professor van Huysman, as the door closed behind her; "and if I'm not a fool entirely, she's found the right man." "Hoskins, you can leave that to a well-brought-up girl like Brenda all the time.
The police matron said my fears were well founded, and she gave me the address of a working-girls' home over on the East Side, which she said was not the pleasantest place in the world for a well-brought-up girl of refinement and intelligence, such as she took me to be, but was cheap, and in which I would be sure of the protection which any young, inexperienced woman without money needs so badly in this wicked city.
It is the simple result of her life, her breeding, her virtue, her character, her habits of control and reserve. She is the fashionable, well-brought-up girl, with all her sensitive instincts in revolt against forcing herself upon a man indifferent to her, and full of an overwhelming instinctive timidity that her desire is wild to break down and cannot.
She had loved this man with a love which has no parallel in the hearts of well-ordered and well-brought-up women. She never really lived till this fatal passion took possession of her, and now that its object had deserted her, her heart felt as though it was dead within her. In that short half-hour she suffered more than many women do in their whole lives.
I was terrified. I knew then that my dreams were coming true, I knew it, and I don't know why I did not run away. Any self-respecting, modest girl would have done so. But what did I do? I, a supposedly sensible, well-brought-up " "You caught me trying to run away," he broke in.
Bessie resigned herself to circumstances, and, like a well-brought-up young lady, improved her leisure practised her songs, sketched the ruins and the mill, and learnt by heart some of the best pieces in her aunt Dorothy's collection of poetry. Towards the middle of the month Mr. Cecil Burleigh came again, bringing his sister with him to stay to the end of it.
Gurrage takin' advantage of the opportunities, his partener dyin' youngish but I liked the idea of your bein' high-born, and I was frightened about Gussie's lookin' at that girl at the Ledstone Arms. And you seemed good and quiet and well-brought-up. And Gussie just doted on you. You ought to have jumped at him, but you and your grandma were that proud!
Mammas and aunties of would-be young artists seem to have made a veritable bogy-man of this would-be lady-killer. What nonsense! Any well-brought-up young woman, respecting the proprieties, can protect herself from the attentions of this walking impertinence. Letters are his chief weapon. If they are signed, it is easy to return them, if one cares to take so much trouble.
'If my manners be good enough for well-brought-up people like the Garlands, they be good enough for her, continued the miller, with a sense of injustice. 'That's true. Then it must have been David. David, come here! How did you behave before that lady? Now, mind you speak the truth! 'Yes, Mr. Captain Robert, said David earnestly. 'I assure ye she was served like a royal queen.
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