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Peck and be hanged, said I, I might as well have preserved the first, for I see it is the nature of the beast. Excuse my flippancies. I wish I were with you. I would make you smile in the midst of your gravest airs, as I used to do. O that you had accepted of my offer to attend you! but nothing that I offer will you accept Take care!
It was only one of my cheap flippancies, said just to amuse myself and shock you. Don't you believe me?" Tears came to Alice. She had had at least one utterly sleepless night and several days of mental anguish. She was one of the women who love too well.
It is no defect in it that it is of 1872 that there is a certain formality, a kind of austerity, even, in its flippancies. It is meditative poetry. It is poetry which is essentially concerned with the emotions, the fancies, or the reflections, the very personal and secluded reflections, of a mind still concerned about the private ways of the spirit.
Oh, yes, my brotherhood would be popular, as soon as it was understood." Alicia hurried in with something palliating she could remember flippancies of her own that had been rebuked but there was no sigh or token of disapproval in Arnold's face.
"You have passed eighteen now, and, as you must know yourself, are by no means bad looking, with a certain air of freshness and simplicity that is so rare here in Paris that it will be regarded as refreshing and delightful after the flippancies of the court gallants." Hector laughed uncomfortably. "I could not take up flippancies, I am afraid.
Their jovial eyes had grown hollow to-night, although their minds were going gallantly, as you have probably noticed. Their criticisms, slangy and abrupt, struck the scholastic Oscar as flippancies which he must indulge, since the pay was handsome.
We can almost imagine the scene in which the wooden Napoleon haughtily rebukes his wooden jailor for calling him General Bonaparte "Sir Hudson Low, call me not thus; I am Napoleon, Emperor of the French." It may seem flippant to dwell on such flippancies in connection with a book which contains many romantic descriptions and many moral generalisations which Dickens probably valued highly.
Years afterward Hilary remembered with what a curious reticence Elizabeth used to go about in those days: how she remained as old-fashioned as ever; acquired no London ways, no fripperies of dress or flippancies of manner. Also, that she never complained of anything; though the discomforts of her lodging-house life must have been great greater than her mistresses had any idea of at the time.
Brewster, being well used to Eleanor's flippancies, paid no attention to her daughter. "You will come to us whenever you can, Howard; that is understood," she said. And so the social matter rested.
Indeed, only a ferociously sincere person can produce such effective flippancies on a matter like war; just as only a strong man could juggle with cannon balls. It is all very well to use the word "fool" as synonymous with "jester"; but daily experience shows that it is generally the solemn and silent man who is the fool. It is all very well to accuse Mr.
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