So she said with matronly dignity, and the old Julian consistency, You are a foolish impetuous boy.

The character of Queen Katherine is the most perfect delineation of matronly dignity, sweetness, and resignation, that can be conceived.

Then, straightening with some difficulty her aged back, and assuming a matronly dignity of bearing and feature, she emitted the rebuke following:

It was too old for her both in fashion and material, but it gave her a gentle, almost matronly dignity, which became her.

"Perhaps at the matronly dignity with which you have been laying down the law."

"Certainly not," she replied, standing in matronly dignity.

"Don't trouble yourself," said the young mother, with a charming assumption of matronly dignity; "I shall hold the baby safe.