Trumbull, adjusting the long ends of his blue cravat with both hands, and looking at Rosamond deferentially.
The cases are more monotonous, and one has to go through more fuss and listen more deferentially to nonsense.
On the contrary it seemed to Dorothea that Will had a happier way of drawing her husband into conversation and of deferentially listening to him than she had ever observed in any one before.