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He halted before he came in sight of the stream; if Fran had a mind to fish with Simon Jefferson, he would not spoil her sport. He found a comfortable log where he might study under the gracious sky. Across the road, a bill-board flaunted a many-colored advertisement, but it did not distract his attention it had lost its novelty from over-production.
In the morning Yvonne had made some purchases in the town and later they had caught up with their friends near La Mesle, along the Sarthe, down which their road descended by easy stages to their destination. Alenon was in holiday garb and the tricolor flaunted bravely from many poles, though the beginning of the fte was not until to-morrow.
Is it come to this then? Is he fit to die at last? Then he is fit to live; and live he shall. The tyrants have not the heart to carry out their own crime, and Raleigh shall be respited. But not pardoned. No more return for him into that sinful world, where he flaunted on the edge of the precipice, and dropped heedless over it.
It was not singular, therefore, that he, for his part, should have longed to speak to her, heart to heart, of that mysterious thing which had divided them, and to tell her that, in spite of all in spite of facts that had been flaunted before his eyes in society, in the public prints, and everywhere he had never quite succeeded in stilling a small voice in his soul which had continued to declare that the young girl to whom he had so passionately given his love was less fickle and unfaithful than these facts had shown her to be.
He flaunted his amours and vices before her, taunted her in public with her own indiscretions, and shouted in his cups that he would divorce her. Not content with these outrages on his Empress, he lost no opportunity of disgusting his subjects and driving his soldiers to the verge of mutiny. Such an intolerable state of things could only have one issue.
They were to the manner born, and minded no more the deep black ruts of the peat, which in the more easterly country are called "hags," than the open military road along which the carriage was bowling. The heather was mostly short and easy "bull's fell" heather as it was named. Tall cotton grass flaunted up suddenly through the slaty haze of the night of pursuit.
People leaned out of the windows, like theatregoers at a play. The light illuminated the red and white bars of the ensign, upheld by the standard bearer of the regiment, the smaller flags flaunted by the strikers each side clinging hardily to the emblem of human liberty.
The cold, intense, unremitting, lorded it over a vast realm of wood and stream; lakes and rivers were locked fast under ice, and through the clear, still nights the aurora flaunted its shimmering banners across the northern sky. But within the cabin they were snug and warm, Bill's ax kept the woodpile high. The two fireplaces shone red the twenty-four hours through.
"Guilty of what?" "Of what? I don't know what you may be guilty of. But you sat on the stairs with your simpering inamorata and your courtship quarrels and your tender reconciliations were plain enough to to sicken anybody " "Lois! That is no proper way to speak of " "It is your own affair and hers! I ask your pardon but she flaunted her intimacy with you so openly and indiscreetly "
If ye will go on decoratin' ye'er house with shingles an' paint an' puttin' paper on th' walls an' adornin' th' inside iv it with ye'er barbaric taste f'r eight day clocks, cane bottom chairs an' karosene lamps, ye've got to settle, that's all. Ye've flaunted ye'er wealth too long in th' face iv a sturdy people. "Ye'd think th' way such as ye talk that ivrything is taxed. It ain't so.
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