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Throughout all the days of his married life he had followed the ordinary routine of his business or pleasure with scarce a break, in winter to his country seat on the most southern coast of his southern land, in spring to the capital, in full summer to some fashionable 'bath' or 'cure, in autumn to different great houses for the purpose of shooting other people's game by their obsequious invitation, and in the entire round he had never shown himself capable of much more than a flirtation with the prettiest or the most pushing new beauty, or a daring ride on the latest invention for travelling at lightning speed.
The wives and daughters come in their best dresses, and promenade up and down, and many a flirtation goes on with the young bucks of the district. The lower class of farmers jog in on their mares, rough as cart-horses, and the rider generally so manages to seat himself as to show three or four inches of stocking between his trousers and boots.
To his stories of adventures, or accounts of manners, she lent a willing and a delighted ear; but all common-place jokes tending to flirtation fell flat; she either did not catch them, or did not catch at them.
Jim found her guest dreamily braiding her hair for the night. "Shirley," she began directly, "this is going too fast. David's too nice a boy to be hurt. He's taking your flirtation seriously." "I'm not flirting with him. At least I don't think I am," Shirley amended slowly. "I thought you were interested only in rich men?" "I did think so. But now It might be fun to be poor with him for a while.
This flirtation between Baron Reischach and Princess Victoria formed the theme of quite a number of the anonymous letters, in which the princess was charged with every kind of indelicacy, while the unfortunate baron was ridiculed in connection with the modernity of his nobility.
Leighton's situation, and let her go to England at once; and after that it did not take much pressing to induce her to make full confession of all that had passed. It must be remembered that Bluebell was under the impression that her friend had always known of the flirtation between herself and Bertie; but now for the first time the horror-stricken Mrs.
"I'm not speaking of that; I merely allude to an ordinary flirtation." "Oh, I suppose she has seen me attentive." "Very awkward, indeed! There is only one point in your favor; for as your attentions were not decided, and as the law does not, as yet, permit polygamy " "Come, come, you know I never thought of marrying." "Ah, but they did." "Not a bit of it." "Ay, but they did.
A slim-shafted palm shooting through the leafy mantle, and swaying airily a profuse mass of fiery red seeds, distinctive in shape, may be the prototype of a flirt, but the flirtation which arrests attention and bewitches the beholder is also innoxious. There is nothing of the artificial about the display.
How small those first youthful errors seemed as my lady looked back upon them in that long revery by the lonely hearth! What small vanities, what petty cruelties! A triumph over a schoolfellow; a flirtation with the lover of a friend; an assertion of the right divine invested in blue eyes and shimmering golden-tinted hair.
With us there are many flirtations between boys and girls which come to nothing; but when in my country a man like you meets with a woman like Mademoiselle Cicogna, there cannot be flirtation.
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