decorously

The mother, a stout, comely woman in a plain black gown, demurred decorously, but was glad enough to yield, and Nanni, taking the child in his arms, stepped across the intervening gondola, to which his own was tied, and deposited his wondering burden in the arms of the Signorina who stood up to receive it.

Sie war tadellos gewachsen, ein wenig zu voll, aber von einer Leichtigkeit der Bewegungen, die sie noch jugendlich erscheinen ließ.