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"Believe in God and yourself, and do the best you can." In Hendrik on the Hudson, fifty miles from New York, there was, winter before last, a certain "patent seamless." But a hooped skirt with a history, touching and teaching, is no theme for flippancy; so, by your leave, I will unwind my story tenderly, and with reverential regard for its smooth turns of sequence.
Such are the effects of a love for the Beautiful. Peter Crowl was impressed with Denzil's condemnation of flippancy, and he hastened to turn off the joke. "I'm quite serious," he said. "Butterflies are no good to nothing or nobody; caterpillars at least save the birds from starving." "Just like your view of things, Peter," said Denzil. "Good morning, madam." This to Mrs.
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice, was a characterising note of Mr Fadge's periodical; his monthly comments on publications were already looked for with eagerness by that growing class of readers who care for nothing but what can be made matter of ridicule.
But such is the flippancy of friends that when she met them, and secretly confided her grief to their ears, they would say cheerily, 'Lord, never mind, my dear; there's a third to come yet! at which maladroit remark she would show much indignation, and tell them they should know better than to trifle on so solemn a theme.
The girl regarded him steadily. "How should I?" she said. And then, as though decided upon a course of action of the wisdom of which she was uncertain, she laughed uneasily. "But the spirits would know," she said. "I might ask them." "Do!" cried Winthrop, delightedly. "How much would that be?" As though to reprove his flippancy, the girl frowned.
The Westminster Assembly seem to have left paradise out of the creation." "Such flippancy is shameful in one of thy years, Mr. Meredith," said his wife, sternly, "and canst have but one ending." "That is all any of us can have, Patty," replied the squire, genially. Mrs.
And her tone made Felicity wheel. "Of what?" Felicity demanded, a little blank. Cecille laughed. It was a woeful, croaking attempt at flippancy. "Oh, the old line of stuff!" She had never before employed Felicity's brand of slang. It came unpleasantly from her tongue. "The wages of sin and all that sort of thing."
'You and I together possess that pair, however. "'You and I? I cried. "'Yes, said he. 'Your left eye and my right have the honor of being the only two unique eyes in the world. "'That's queer too, I observed, a mixture of sarcasm and flippancy in my tones, I fear. 'You mean twonique, don't you?
"Provided always," I suggested, "that your plot came to a successful issue." "Of course," he answered, biting his cigar and speaking in a tone of furtive flippancy, which I suppose was the only thing left to the poor wretch to hide the nakedness of his discomfiture. "And you reckon," I asked him, "on being paid to-morrow?" Except for a sullen motion of his chair he gave no sign of answer.
It had given the lie direct to the flippancy which she had assumed, and David determined to remain until he had fathomed its innermost meaning. A fear, indeed, lest the one single faith he felt as real should crumble to ashes made his resolve almost an instinct of self-preservation.
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