The other Americans (beside the madman) are two girls, about my own age, one of whom is rather
nice. She has a mother; but the mother is always sitting in her bedroom, which seems so very odd.
"That would be a pity; my nose is quite nice, but I fear turning it up would spoil it," said Anne, patting that shapely organ.
"It's a nice old burg, they tell me, and has the finest natural park in the world.
"Yes, Davy, and I hope you'll be always very nice and good to her."
"'Cause I don't think it would be nice to talk to God before strangers, Anne.
Lucy, with one eye upon the weather, finally said that she thought the Emersons were nice; not that she saw anything of them now.
He wondered whether he would not plan a pleasant day for these folk before they left-- some expedition, perhaps, with Lucy well chaperoned to be nice to them.
Everyone thought soberly for a minute, then Meg announced, as if the idea was suggested by the sight of her own pretty hands, "I shall give her a nice pair of gloves."
"I do think THE WITCHES CURSE, an Operatic Tragedy is rather a nice thing, but I'd like to try McBETH, if we only had a trapdoor for Banquo.
Mine is dishes and dusters, and envying girls with nice pianos, and being afraid of people."
If only people with brains--of course they would want a room, a nice room, in Bloomsbury preferably, where they could meet once a week.
Arthur Venning suggested that what she must do was to rig up something in the nature of a surprise--a portrait, for example, of a nice old lady in a lace cap, concealing a bath of cold water, which at a signal could be sprung on Pepper's head; or they'd have a chair which shot him twenty feet high directly he sat on it.
She had done her tea; she was feeling very well contented, partly because she had been playing tennis brilliantly, and then every one was so nice; she was beginning to find it so much easier to talk, and to hold her own even with quite clever people, for somehow clever people did not frighten her any more.
"Now we'll all be good, and plan nice things for poor Mac," she said, smiling so graciously that the boys felt as if the sun had suddenly burst out from behind a heavy cloud and was shining with great brilliancy.
Of course, this elevated state of things could not endure long, but it was very nice while it lasted, and left an excellent effect upon the minds of all when the first ardour had subsided.
