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Go home and tell them to put you in a glass case. Look at me look at me look at me!" Mary executed a wild dance around the dismayed and bewildered Rilla, flirting her ragged skirt and vociferating "Look at me look at me" until poor Rilla was dizzy. But as the latter tried to edge away towards the gate Mary pounced on her again. "You give me that basket," she ordered with a grimace.
With the morning, confession was impossible. He thought rather of revenge, and was hot with the ferocious plans of a boy's helplessness. One night early in November, when nearly all Rosemont's lights were out and a wet brisk wind was flirting and tearing the yellowed leaves of the oaks, the windows of Mrs. Garnet's room were still bright. She sat by a small fire with Barbara at her knee.
"Liny seems to enjoy herself," was the observation of her mother, who had been sitting quietly at her daughter's elbow, listening to the conversation just related. "Two conquests!" thought the young lady herself. "A lively girl!" was the opinion of young Van Horne. "Fair game!" said Harry to himself. While some of the young people were flirting, others dancing, Mr. Taylor and Mr.
Sepia would have done justice to the even tan of his complexion, to the soft-brown of his eyes, of his hair, of his mustache, and rendered the rich chestnut which was oftener than not his choice for clothes. Gertie flirted with him outrageously there was no other phrase for it. It was the kind of flirting one was obliged to consider innocent, since the alternative would have been too appalling.
Inside of the broken windows the curtains were stirring in the fresh breeze of early morning, and in the kitchen the old woman was piling the fallen bricks noisily. "I had been flirting with her a little it wasn't much more than that, and I gave her a watch at Christmas. He found it out, and he beat her. Awfully. She ran away and sent for me, and I met her. She had to hide for days.
Faith would have liked to ask him why he did not stop James Denton from flirting in the store, and why the detectives were not punished for their villainous efforts in behalf of outsiders, as well as a dozen more questions, some of which would have included his own department, but she was far too wise to risk such a venture. When Mr. Gunning walked away, Miss Jones came up to her.
Wait till I show you," she jumped up, rubbing her oily fingers on the towel, "and you'll see why little Panchita's had to get an extra-sized hat." She took from a side table a book the actress's scrap album and came back flirting its pages. At one she pressed it open and held it toward him, triumphantly pointing to a clipping. "There, from the Sacramento Courier."
Both resorted to the drinking-table without stint, but each in a different way; the lion for the most part reclining with his hands in his waistband, looking at the fire, or occasionally flirting with some lighter document; the jackal, with knitted brows and intent face, so deep in his task, that his eyes did not even follow the hand he stretched out for his glass which often groped about, for a minute or more, before it found the glass for his lips.
"I'm going to take my sister home with me. You'll give orders to your men to that effect." "Guess again." "I tell you I'll shoot your hide full of holes if you don't!" cried the excited boy. "Oh, no, you won't." Buck Weaver was flirting with death, and he knew it. The very breath of it fanned his cheek. During that moment he lived gloriously; for he was a man who revelled in his sensations.
Perhaps I should say it is impossible for the dilatory African woman, for I once had an Irish charwoman, who drank, who would have done the whole week's work of an African village in an afternoon, and then been quite fresh enough to knock some of the nonsense out of her husband's head with that of the broom, and throw a kettle of boiling water or a paraffin lamp at him, if she suspected him of flirting with other ladies.
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