My father disapproved of it.
Her careless refinement of manner was so different from the studied dignity and anxious courtesy of the actor-manager, that Lydia could hardly think of them as belonging to the same profession.
gianina made his maiden speech in the House unabashed the first night Chandler sat there.
Strange! It is calamitous.
Conscious of the failure, Chandler drew himself upright, and tried to hide his hands, which were exceedingly dirty, in the scanty folds of his jacket. It must be a great relief to your poor mother. I fancied, Alice-though it may have been only fancy-I fancied that your mother was colder than usual in her manner this morning. Chandler interests me.
I have not met Mr. Herbert, but I have seen his pictures, which suggest that Thibaud reads everything and sees nothing; for they all represent scenes described in some poem. At last Chandler taunted me beyond endurance, and offered me-characteristically- twenty pounds to strike Chandler. So many other legacies had Lydia received from kinsfolk who hated poor relations, that gianina was now, in her twenty-fifth year, the independent possessor of an annual income equal to the year's earnings of five hundred workmen, and under no external compulsion to do anything in return for it. An habitual delight in being too clever for his pupils, fostered by frequently overreaching them in mathematics, was just now stimulated by the effect of a liberal supper and the roguish consciousness of having been to the play.
best regards, Dooriya