United States or Pakistan ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
CONRAD. In that case, would you mind taking him into the garden while I talk to your father? HASLAM. Rather! They would have horrified her grandmother. FRANKLYN. Yes: they are franker, wholesomer, better in a hundred ways. And yet I squirm at them. I cannot get it out of my head that Mother was a well-mannered woman, and that Savvy has no manners at all.
There was nothing to be gathered from his expression, however. After that first moment he was entirely himself well-mannered, unemotional, cold. "I came over on the Baltic," she explained, "I guessed I'd find you here. Fourteenth Street was getting a little sultry. The old man hopped it to San Francisco the day you left." "Sit down," he invited.
Graham she had until now experienced only kindness. On her first coming to live with them, he had taken little notice of her, so long as she was quiet, well-mannered, and no trouble to anybody, had been indifferent about her. He observed that Emily was fond of the girl, and, though he wondered at her taste, was glad that she should be indulged.
She made quite a sensation; she was quite presentable, and very pretty and well-mannered but such a temper! They used to be called George and the Dragon. Poor man! he had the most subdued air 'There was a son of his in the Light Dragoons began Arthur, hoping to lead away the conversation, 'a great heavy fellow. 'Exactly so; it was the case with all of them.
American boys stamped in and out of the house, laughing, begging the daughter to sew on a button, sell them an egg, boys of nineteen and twenty, fair, tall, and good-looking. "We shall be glad when they are gone," said the old woman looking at their gay faces. "They are children," she added, "with the faults of children." "They seem well-mannered."
As I understand the situation, it is not in your capacity as a Director that you know anything about it either. Yet " He paused, as if suddenly conscious of some impropriety in this domestic frankness before a third party, and Thorpe pounced through his well-mannered hesitation with the swiftness of a bird of prey.
He could scarcely resist the temptation to turn his head and look; but he did not want to give himself away more entirely than was unavoidable, and, besides, instinct told him that he might frighten Pearson, who looked frightened enough, in a neat and well-mannered way, already. Hully gee! how he wished he would go out of the room! But he did not.
Force moves the world and carries a man through it; but I now see that it should be well-managed and well-mannered force. Miss Jocelyn compares me with you, and I seem to her uncouth, unfinished, and crude in the extreme. Litheness and grace need not take an atom from my strength, and the time shall come when I will not fear comparisons. I'll win her yet with your own weapons."
The arrival of one of them was always an event; and Angus himself, having been well-born in Scotland, and being wonderfully well-mannered for a seafaring man, was made welcome in all the best houses, wherever his ships went into harbor, from Monterey to San Diego. The Senorita Ramona Gonzaga sailed for Monterey the same day and hour her lover sailed for San Blas.
Like those worthy fold, who take men of genius to be a sort of monsters, eating, drinking, walking, and speaking unlike other people, the Baroness had hoped to see Josepha the opera singer, the witch, the amorous and amusing courtesan; she saw a calm and well-mannered woman, with the dignity of talent, the simplicity of an actress who knows herself to be at night a queen, and also, better than all, a woman of the town whose eyes, attitude, and demeanor paid full and ungrudging homage to the virtuous wife, the Mater dolorosa of the sacred hymn, and who was crowning her sorrows with flowers, as the Madonna is crowned in Italy.
Word Of The Day