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As to women of the flirtatious type, he did not dislike them; no man, perhaps, does; but he feared them, and he said that with them there was but one way, and that was to run. I have a notion that at this period Lowell was more freely and fully himself than at any other.
I checked my steps also, and I checked my speech too. The anxiety in the voice was reflected now in the face. I was smiling slightly, and through my mind flitted a fragment of doggerel: 'Oh, there's nothing so flirtatious As the bowld soldier boy! Suddenly the brown eyes came back to my face, open and clear as day. 'I owe it to myself, he said, with sudden dignity, 'to explain.
What had promised to be an audaciously flirtatious declaration, and even a mischievous suggestion of marriage, had resolved itself into something absurdly practical and business-like. Not so Mr. Harkutt. He quickly rose from his chair, and, leaning over the table, with his eyes fixed on the card as if it really signified the railroad, repeated quickly: "Railroad, eh! What's that?
His face, his eyes, his eager words, his tremulous lips, were all eloquent of this new passion that possessed him. As for Miss Hazel, accustomed as she was to the discriminating admiration of her fellow clerks, the sincerity and abandonment of this devotion was as incense to her flirtatious soul.
It so chanced that this afternoon my seclusion on the roadside was accidentally invaded by a village belle a Western young lady somewhat older than myself, and of flirtatious reputation. As she persistently and as I now have reason to believe mischievously lingered, I had only a passing glimpse of Consuelo riding past at an unaccustomed speed which surprised me at the moment.
"Are you glad to see me?" he asked, love dancing madly in his heart. "Of course I am. You needn't ask that." "By the way, Griffiths sends you his love." "What cheek!" He had talked to her a great deal of Griffiths. He had told her how flirtatious he was and had amused her often with the narration of some adventure which Griffiths under the seal of secrecy had imparted to him.
"I'm sure you can get along without us, miss, much better than we could get along without you." Mademoiselle considered this a flirtatious speach and walked out of the shop. But I consider that it was a General Remark and not personal, and anyhow he was thirty at least, and had a married apearance.
When he saw I was busy he would tilt on a nearby bough and call me with flirtatious, provocative outbreaking of song. He knew that it was impossible for any one to resist him any one in the world. Of course I would get up and stand beneath his tree with my face upturned and tell him that his charm, his beauty, his fascination and my love were beyond the power of words to express.
It so chanced that this afternoon my seclusion on the roadside was accidentally invaded by a village belle a Western young lady somewhat older than myself, and of flirtatious reputation. As she persistently and as I now have reason to believe mischievously lingered, I had only a passing glimpse of Consuelo riding past at an unaccustomed speed which surprised me at the moment.
It was Miss Brown who, from her place in a corner of the room, ran over the cheap attractions of this unwelcome visitor with an expression of scornful wonder who understood the tinsel of her jewellery, the cheap shoddiness of her ready-made gown; who appreciated, with merciless judgment, her mincing speech, her cheap, flirtatious method.
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