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It will cost nothing, and, therefore, lose its only charm for you, my Lord Spendthrift," cried the miser, sharply. "On the contrary, sir, I only object to the loneliness of the long journey." "No one to chatter to, eh, Mr. Magpie! Well, it need not be so! There's Nace Grimshaw, and his set extravagant fools! going up to the city to flaunt among the fashionables.
That petty trinket which you have presumed to flaunt in my face and of whose value I am the worst judge in the world since I have never had it in my hand descended to me with the rest of Mrs. Jeffrey's property.
Sir Tim. Just as the Baud said; yet I am mollify'd nay, dear Betty, forgive me, and I'll be very good for the future. Flaunt. Will you swear to be so? Sir Tim. Ay, by Fortune, I will. Flaunt. Come, what will you give me then to be Friends? for you won Money last Night. Sir Tim. Ay, that's it that appeases her highest Storms here, my Jewel, here's a hundred Guineas to buy thee fine things. Flaunt.
"These places, and worse ones, legalized places of devils' pastime, will lure and beckon the raw youth of the country. They will flaunt their gaudy attractions on every side, and appeal to every sense but the sense of decency.
Alas, there are embusqués in all countries, just as there are nouveaux-riches. In Paris these latter are easily discernible. They have not yet had time to become accustomed to their new luxuries; especially the women, who wear exaggerated styles, and flaunt their furs and jewels, which deceive no one. "They buy everything, so long as it is expensive," explained an antiquity dealer.
Its precociousness is so great and its productiveness so lavish, that by the time other trees flaunt their first blossoms, the papaw has worn itself out, and is dying of senile decay, leaving, however, numerous posterity. The fruit is delicate, too, and soon resolves itself into its original elements. Pears and peaches are said by the artistic to enjoy but a brief half hour of absolute perfection.
My Lord Protector feasts the Dutch ambassadors with music and with wine, my Lords Ireton and Fairfax and Hutchinson and the accursed lot of canting Puritans flaunt it in silks and satins, whilst I go about in a ragged doublet and with holes in my shoes." "There's Lady Sue," murmured Mistress de Chavasse soothingly. "Pshaw! the guardianship of a girl who comes of age in three months!"
They should surely be called "Gondoliers." For the gondola is your only chance of display. Rich Americans may flaunt it with four gondoliers and print "Palazzo" on their visiting-cards. But doctors and lawyers live in Palaces, and even a moderate purse can keep a horseless carriage. And your St. Mark's Square, which is the largest drawing-room in the world, is also the most democratic.
Party feeling had been stormy, like crossing tides, between those who held Baldassare for a gull and those who resented Vanna's unruffled brows. But now there was but one party. It was very well to hoodwink an old skinflint; but, by the Mass, not honest to flaunt your methods in the world's face.
The two looked at each other as they had never looked, and Mrs. Wix seemed to flaunt there in her finery. "Then doesn't he pay YOU too?" her unhappy charge demanded. At this she bounded in her place. "Oh you incredible little waif!" She brought it out with a wail of violence; after which, with another convulsion, she marched straight away. Maisie dropped back on the bench and burst into sobs.
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