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"I don't know," she retorted. "You are tangling me," he said, gaining something in self-possession under the flick of the whip. "First you say you know, and then you say you don't know. Which is which?" "If you are flippant I shall go in," she threatened. "There are things that not even the most loyal friendship can condone." "That's the difference between friendship and love," he asserted.
We are all ready for "O rare Ben Jonson!" as we stand over the place where he was planted standing upright, as if he had been dropped into a post-hole. We remember too well the foolish and flippant mockery of Gay's "Life is a Jest."
"Please! I am not quite so bad as that. Believe me, I should rejoice for you if you had children. Leonore would have made a wonderful mother. Even I might be respectable if a woman such as she loved me as she loves you. But," he grew flippant again, "to marry one of those nose-in-the-air, soulless, school-teacher prudes Never!
Can a husband open his wife's letters? That would depend, many would say, upon what kind of a husband he is. But it cannot be put aside in that flippant manner, for it is a legal right that is in question, and it has recently been decided in a Paris tribunal that the husband has the, right to open the letters addressed to his wife.
A handsome woman, this madame, a woman of about two-and-thirty, with the tar-black eyes and the twilight-coloured tresses of Northern Russia; bold as brass, flippant as a French cocotte, steel-nerved and calm-blooded as a professional gambler. "Your hirelings will tamper with his birds and his effects in the night, I know that, Monsieur le Comte," she had said when she demanded this.
"But I have not understood Sarah lately; she has seemed so hard and flippant. You are laughing, John? I dare say I am jealous and inconsistent. You are quite right. One moment I want to think Sarah in earnest and willing to marry my boy; and the next I remember that I began to hate his wife the very day he was born." "It appears to be the nature of mothers," said John, indulgently.
Browne had said were interesting, but flippant. He had seen Bob at a college club and declared that he had met a witch of a country girl at the Merrills. He couldn't make her out, because she had refused to see him every time he called again.
"Drowning?" suggested one of our party in a tone that Posey must have thought too flippant for the occasion, for he turned upon the speaker with an indignation that could not all have been inspired by the memory of his stingy friend's deed. "Drownin'! Him! An' leave his duds up on the ground fer somebody else to git the good of? Huh! Not much! No, sir!
"I am afraid not!" Sabina laughed. "We are none of us good, you know. Why should I be?" The Baroness disapproved. "That is a flippant speech," she said severely. "I do not feel flippant at all. I am very serious. I wish to earn my living." "But you cannot " "But I wish to," answered Sabina, as if that settled the question. "Have you always done what you wished?" asked the Baroness wisely.
"Go on out and buy some incense to burn before Darrin," laughed Henkel harshly. Perhaps Mr. Henkel might not have been as flippant had he known that, all the time, Farley was studying him intently. "So, in spite of all explanations, you still have no use for Darrin?" asked Midshipman Farley. "I have just as much use for him as I have for any other big sneak," retorted Mr. Henkel.
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