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Maynard's taste and supervision, and the influence of Alice Kenwick's exquisite beauty, had fairly carried him away. They were chatting in the parlor, while Miss Renwick was entertaining some young-lady friends from town and listening to the band on the parade.
by a uniformity in the cut of their trousers, or a clannishness of cane or scarf, or a talk of boats and base-ball held among themselves. One cannot see them without pleasure and kindness; and it is no wonder that their young-lady acquaintances brighten so to recognize them on the horse-cars.
Proctor, and their young-lady daughter wearing a marvellous "waterfall"; Angus McMullen, alone, his father detained professionally; Mrs. Cathcart and Georgie; young Bradford carrying his banjo, his wonderful raiment and his air of vast leisure; Welton, the lumberman, red-faced, jolly, popular and ungrammatical. The women guarded baskets. All greeted the Ordes with various degrees of hilarity.
I feel it due, if not to Graham himself, at least to the memory of the dignified orator whose name he inherits, so to modify and soften the hardy style of that peculiar diction in which he disguises his birth and disgraces his culture, that it is only here and there that I can venture to indicate the general tone of it; but in order to supply my deficiencies therein, the reader has only to call to mind the forms of phraseology which polite novelists in vogue, especially young-lady novelists, ascribe to well-born gentlemen, and more emphatically to those in the higher ranks of the Peerage.
She never did herself any justice if she began to be afraid. Jeannie Hadden said it was just her mother's trouble about Reba, except that Reba was strong enough; only that Mrs. Hadden preferred a teacher to come to the house. "A good young-lady teacher, to give beginners a desirable style from the very first, is exceedingly needed since Miss Robbyns went away," said Mrs.
There's a girl after my own heart. I consider our scatter-brained friend Fritz to be the luckiest young fellow living." "If Minna was not going to be married," I suggested, "she would just do for one of your young-lady clerks, wouldn't she?" My aunt laughed. "Exactly what I thought myself, when I saw her. But you are not to make a joke of my young-lady clerks.
Seated upon the piano-stool was a young-lady of at most eighteen years: her face, had it not been for its expression of exuberant drollery and malicious fun, would have been downright beautiful; her eyes, of the deepest blue, and shaded by long lashes, instead of indulging the character of pensive and thoughtful beauty for which Nature destined them, sparkled with a most animated brightness; her nose, which, rather short, was still beautifully proportioned, gave, with her well-curled upper lip, a look of sauciness to the features quite bewitching; her hair that brilliant auburn we see in a Carlo Dolci fell in wild and massive curls upon her shoulders.
There were no pleasant games of snap-dragon, or touch, or even a gossip over the tea-table, for the young-lady foxes. Empty, vast, and cold were the halls of the Snow Queen. The flickering flame of the northern lights could be plainly seen, whether they rose high or low in the heavens, from every part of the castle.
"Will much-admired young-lady cherries-in-black-hat indicate method possible correspondence 10211, Post-Office?" How many of these arrows, I wonder, reach their mark? Ah, here are politics and News of the World, at last. A promising article on the "Direttissimo Roma-Napoli" the railway line that is to connect the two towns by way of the Pontine Marshes. . . . Dear me!
Lady Cecilia then presented her to a group of sister graces standing near the sofas of mammas and chaperons not each a different grace, but similar each, indeed upon the very same identical pattern air of young-lady fashion well-bred, and apparently well-natured.
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