" As for the mulatto waiter, after a moment more of hesitation, he took Ford's order, and walked dignifiedly away, muttering, "Nebber seen de like afore.

" He was right; but, before they had eaten their way to the pie and pudding, Ford was dignifiedly informed, "If you please, sah, my name isn't Mr. Marigold, sah, it is Mr. Bellerington, sah; an' my first name isn't Coffee, sah, it's Augustus.

Yet even when speaking with "most miraculous organ," with a grandeur never heard till then, he overflows in speech more like that of other men than theirshe utters himself more simply, straightforwardly, dignifiedly, than they.

The morning after the perfection of the invention Simpson called upon Mr. Grampus and calmly, coldly, and dignifiedly announced that his lock was complete, and that he was now about to install it in the Grampus front door.

"My place respectable," Lovaina said dignifiedly.

Evidently he is saying something dignifiedly humorous to her, for she is laughing.

I wish that he would sometimes be dignifiedly humorous to us, or even humorous without the dignity.