Indeed, so little of that flurry of anticipation did he experience, that he had to be reminded her Ladyship was waiting dinner for him, before he could remember the pleasure that was before him.
But a glance from her Ladyship at once recalled him from the indiscreet familiarity.
And yet what your Ladyship points at is very like gambling.
Of pictures and statues he had seen much, and evidently with profit and advantage; of people and society he knew next to nothing, and her Ladyship quickly detected this deficiency, and fell back upon it as her stronghold.
He remembered having met her somewhere, some time, and he approached the renewed acquaintance without any one of the sentiments her Ladyship had so confidently predicted.
Since your ladyship takes an interest in this family, if you would be so good as to see the poor girl, perhaps this mark of your kindness might soothe her despair, which they tell me is really alarming.
I was speaking to your ladyship just now of the girl they call La Louve,--an untamed, untamable creature.
Not the slightest, but conducted herself as usual, and was coarse, rude, and obstinate; but I assure your ladyship that nothing disposes us more to pity than the observations I have mentioned to you.
It is a long time since his Lordship and her Ladyship could bear to hear the name of Cardew.
I was just tellin' her that your Ladyship was like a hen on a hot griddle waitin' for her.
Ladyship in and out like a dog at a fair, axin', 'Is Miss Bawn in yet, Neil?
See now, Miss Bawn, darling, what would his Lordship and her Ladyship do without you?
Tis mistress of this house she ought to be by rights, leastways when his Lordship and her Ladyship are gone to their rest; and long may it be before they go!
Her Ladyship is always kind and good, the Lord reward her!
If her Ladyship had listened to me she'd never have had Mary Cashel in the house.
Miss Bawn, and the image of her Ladyship, yet more red in the cheeks than her Ladyship had, except maybe when his Lordship was courting her.
When I married her Ladyship the whole county came to see it.
Her ladyship will see you presently," said the servant, who had come up from Princedown.
I told him your ladyship was going out and could not see him, but he put his card in this envelope, and requested that I would hand it to you, madam.
If your ladyship requires me, I am ever at your command.
I called several times, but at last met her ladyship in the camp, driving out in a species of vehicle, and accompanied by Lord Paget on horseback, to whom I had the honour of being introduced by her ladyship.
A few words from her ladyship soon brought me in communication with his Excellency, who, though much engaged (being surrounded by mountains of official papers), received me in a most cheerful and friendly manner.
Her ladyshipwas staying on board the Star of the South.
He then informed me that our visit to Kululee with her ladyship was deferred for a day or two on account of so many visitors staying at the Embassy on their way to the Crimea.
Lord Stratford again expressed his good wishes and promises of kind support, whereupon her ladyship and your humble servant retired.
His Majesty, with great affability, expressed through Lord de Redcliffe the gratification he felt at being presented to her ladyship and her numerous visitors.
I can assure your ladyship that I would not have undertaken this task if such powers had not been granted to me by Lord Panmure.
The former, called the Palais d'Angleterre, now the residence of Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, interested me most, as I was in duty bound to pay my humble respects to his lordship and her ladyship the next morning.
The Lady Mayoress received the company before dinner in the ball room; in dis-charging which office her ladyship displayed much ease and elegance of manner.
It makes the tradesman forget--while he is cheating a lovely and smiling Duchess--that in all probability her ladyship is endeavouring to cheat him.
Madam, according as your ladyship desir'd, By message crav'd, so is Lord Talbot come.
I laugh to see your ladyship so fond To think that you have aught but Talbot's shadow Whereon to practise your severity.
Madam, I have been bold to trouble you; But since your ladyshipis not at leisure, I'll sort some other time to visit you.
Oh, I do not think that your ladyship would recollect it," said Teresa, eagerly.
I hope neither my friend Moore nor her ladyship will be displeased at my stating thus candidly my opinion of their public merits: they would perhaps scout me as an adulator were I to tell them what I thought of their private ones.
Her ladyship looked colder and more reserved, if possible, than ever.
Your ladyship had best go home with this gentleman," said he, indicating the fat farmer, "if the young lady is not afraid to go on.
Miss Coventry, if you please, her ladyship wishes to see you in the drawing-room.
He knew Lady Horsingham quite well, and now sat in his gig with his hat off, wiping his fat face, and expatiating on the narrow escape her ladyship had made, but without offering the slightest suggestion or assistance whatever.
But if the baronet failed in his dignity as head of the house, herladyship had enough for both.
I love him and mourn for him, and call myself by his dear name, and your ladyship does neither!
Your ladyship took him away from me alive, and gave him back to me only when he was dead.
Yes, sir; her ladyship is in the drawing-room," and she shook in her shoes before him as she made the announcement.
If fortune would throw her ladyship and Mr. Fuzzybell together there might yet be found in the easiness of the prey some consolation for the slowness of the play.
But when her ladyship and Mrs. Stistick had retreated--Oh, my readers, fancy what that next hour must have been to Caroline Harcourt!
Only he told me to tell your ladyshipthat Mr. Bertram was in the drawing-room.
It seemed, however, that her ladyship could walk, for with her two supporters she made her way nearly to the door of the room.
And her ladyshipis with her grandfather," the girl added; upon hearing which George walked with quicker steps to the parlour door.
Her ladyship then honoured me so far as to conduct me through her dressing-room into the great family bedchamber to show me a very fine picture by Reynolds of Fox, when a boy, birds-nesting.
Her Ladyship is all courtesy and kindness to me; but her demeanour to some others, particularly to poor Allen, is such as it quite pains me to witness.
The dinner was not so good as usual; for the French cook was ill; and her Ladyship kept up a continued lamentation during the whole repast.
It was, I suppose, the cholera which sent her Ladyship to the only saint in the Ministry for ghostly counsel.
Her Ladyship wants me to take up my quarters almost entirely there; but I love my own chambers and independence, and am neither qualified nor inclined to succeed Allen in his post.
Her ladyship too, which is by no means of course, is all graciousness and civility.
The servant told me that Lord Grey was still at the House of Lords, and that her Ladyship had just gone to dress.
Her Ladyshiphas been the better for this discipline.
Her Ladyship had fretted herself into being ill, could eat nothing but the breast of a partridge, and was frightened out of her wits by hearing a dog howl.
Then was her ladyship gracious beyond description, and asked me to dine and take a bed at Holland House next Tuesday.
The house certainly deserves its reputation for pleasantness, and her ladyship used me, I believe, as well as it is her way to use anybody.
Helen looked at Cecilia; and though Cecilia's look gave no encouragement, she begged that Lady Katrine would do her the honour to wear these sapphires this night, since she had not received what her ladyship had ordered.
Mr. Beauclerc, now piqued, with a look and voice of repressed feeling, said, that he hoped her ladyship did not include him among that set of fashionable somnambulists.
If your ladyship will please to walk up into the back drawing-room--there's a fire.
But her maid observed, that as her ladyship had not been well yesterday, it was no wonder she was later this morning than usual.
Her ladyship had now come to that no particular age, when a remarkable metaphysical phenomenon occurs; on one particular subject hope increases as all probability of success decreases.
Cockburn said that her ladyship had not been at home when he set out; that his master had ordered him to travel all night, to get to Llansillen as fast as possible, and to make no delay in delivering the letter to Miss Stanley.
The doctor turned to Walpurga, saying: "Her ladyship thinks you can't laugh.
This is highly offensive and insulting, and I cannot but wonder that your Ladyship should relish any sentiments so at variance with high rank and good breeding.
I find indeed your ladyship had good thoughts of him.
I am afraid your ladyship then is one of those dangerous creatures they call she-wits, who are always so mightily taken with admiring themselves that nothing else is worth their notice.
But after having taken all that trouble, and lost all her comfort of the morning, she felt it no less than a personal slight, that her ladyship should have disgraced herself so, by neglecting divine worship.
Offering your ladyship all good wishes, from a happy stay here at Happystowe, remain your obedient servant to command, Bucephalus Upmore, of address above.
If I had allowed her to see me, and satisfy all her great curiosity, about this wonderful darling of a Tommy, the chances are ten to one, that her ladyship would never have invited him to Twentifold Towers.
A lady to see your ladyship on very important business.
Her ladyship was wrapped in a fluffy white shawl, but she shivered in spite of both.
The maid passed it to her ladyship, and her ladyship read it with a suppressed cry.
We will take you away, my dear," her ladyship said cheerfully.
It's the lady in mourning, my lady, who has been here to see your ladyship before.
Her ladyship took it, read it, her face growing a dreadful ashen gray.
My lady, excuse me; this lady said your ladyship would be sure to see her, if your ladyship would look at this note.
With face blanched and eyes still full of terror, her ladyship looked at the dark, contemptuous, resolute speaker.
And as constant dropping wears the most obstinate stone, so at last will herladyship conquer.
Her ladyship wishes you to come at once, mademoiselle," said a voice in the shadow in what struck me as being rather a disagreeable tone, with a slightly foreign accent.
With Sir Charles and her ladyship and Miss Vera and Judith.
Her ladyship was to open any telegram which might come, as it would relate to the yacht.
I may not succeed; but I will do my best, and if I fail, your ladyship must remember that I was not engaged for such work.
The professor was exploring, and begged her ladyship not to wait lunch for him.
I was not quite sure if your ladyship knew--anything.
If your ladyship takes the responsibility--in regard to Dr.
For the butler knew his duty: afternoon tea was afternoon tea wherever her ladyship chose to take it; that is to say, a function at which a footman must preserve an impassive face.
Therefore, if your ladyshipcould kindly treat the mistake of yesterday with silence, it would be better--for the system.
I sent her Ladyship the verses composed after your recitation of the great Poem at Coleorton, and desired her to judge whether it was possible that a man, who had written that poem, could be capable of such an act, and in a letter to Sir G.
I do not know whether your Ladyship read my letters to Judge Fletcher.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ladyship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
