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"Sir, please, sir!" "This moment, Wilson. And," as he reached the door, "do me one hundred lines." A pained "OO-oo-oo, sir-r-r," was cut off by the closing door. Mr. Downing proceeded to improve the occasion. "I deplore this growing spirit of flippancy," he said. "I tell you I deplore it! It is not right! If this Fire Brigade is to be of solid use, there must be less of this flippancy.
Evadna, however, seemed to disapprove of the flippancy. She did not take off her hat, and she stated evenly that she must go, and that she really did not care for lemonade, or claret punch, either. "What, in Heaven's name, DO you care for besides yourself?" flared Miss Georgie, quite humanly exasperated. "There, chicken the heat always turns me snappy," she repented instantly. "Please pinch me."
'You are a friend of Archie Weir's? said one to Frank Innes; and Innes replied, with his usual flippancy and more than his usual insight: 'I know Weir, but I never met Archie. No one had met Archie, a malady most incident to only sons.
"Do you mean to say," said Ruth in a low voice there was no flippancy to her now "I've been living on Edith's charity, and yours, all these years? That I haven't anything of my own not even my clothes not even this," she touched a blue enameled watch and chain about her neck, "which I saved and saved so for? Haven't I any income? Haven't I a cent that's mine, Tom?"
Now that his wife had told him of the actual condition in which Eberhard found himself, he felt justified in going ahead and carrying out his pre-determined plans. The proofs of dishonourable conduct on the part of his son could now be brought forward. The debts he had contracted, either through flippancy or downright deception, in the name of his father were sufficient to condemn him forever.
"Thank you. Please sit between Lady Augusta and Aumerle at dinner." The dinner passed most agreeably. As little as possible was said about the Meeting; each talked to his or her neighbour, and although the separate dialogues may have been profound, the general effect produced was one of restful flippancy.
"Yes, I know," replied Corinna; and then was it in innocence or in malice? she asked sweetly: "Have you seen Alice Rokeby this winter?" For an instant Stephen gazed at her in silence. Was it possible that she had not heard the gossip about Benham and Mrs. Rokeby? Was she trying to mislead him by an appearance of flippancy?
Braddock turned impatiently to De Gayangos, as he did not approve of Archie's apparent flippancy. "Does any one else know of the contents of this manuscript?" he demanded irritably. Don Pedro nursed his chin and looked musingly on the ground. "It is just possible that Vasa may." "Vasa? Vasa? Oh yes, the sailor who stole the mummy thirty years ago from your father in Lima. Pooh! pooh! pooh!
I am reminded of it, as I say; and the next moment, when Athos dies of his death, and my dear d'Artagnan bursts into his storm of sobbing, I can but deplore my flippancy. Or perhaps it is La Vallière that the reader of "Vingt Ans Après" is inclined to flee. Well, he is right there too, though not so right. Louise is no success.
It was one of the Irish Members. No Cabinet Minister would dream of saying such things. We have a high sense of the importance of the Ulster problem. Nothing, I assure you, is further from our minds than the desire to minimize or treat with undue flippancy the conscientious objections, even the somewhat unreasonable fears of men whom we recognize as " Clithering paused.
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