dignified

The brigadier, calm and dignified as the law he represented, passed through the crowd, without answering the thousand questions addressed to him, and re-entered the hotel.

But the Scarecrow told her about everything, and turning to the dignified little Mouse, he said:

I assure you once for all that I did not mean to intoxicate Diana and henceforth I shall cover the past with the mantle of oblivion.’ That was a pretty dignified way of speaking wasn’t it, Marilla?”

It was certainly extremely difficult to be dignified under the circumstances!