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Out of it all were resulting lovely white suits; delicate, cloud-like, flounced robes of bewitching tints; graceful morning wrappers, perfect toilets of all kinds for girls at watering-places and in elegant summer homes.
Much pleased with her first successes, the pretty exile devoted herself to an occupation which must be attractive, witness the fanatics that it makes; and the few persons who crossed the bridge could admire at all hours a charming naiad in a flounced gown and a broad-brimmed straw hat, engaged in fishing with the conscientious gravity of a gamin de Paris.
"My, but you must have thought I could eat like a horse!" she remarked scathingly. "You can give them to Julia Duffy," and she flounced out of the seat to another at some distance, leaving Syl to endure an evening of tormenting doubt as to whether he might see her home. Mr. Watson came bustling over nervously to confer with the choir leader.
Having delivered this parting knock at Uncle Peter, the queen of the kitchen flounced out of the house, followed by the younger one who had played only a thinking part in the strenuous scene. Aunt Martha still sat motionless in the chair, quite on the verge of tears, when Clara J. went over to her and said, "Why didn't you tell me you were going after servants, Auntie?"
Graham reclined upon a softly-cushioned sofa, her tasteful lace morning-cap half falling from her head, and her rich cashmere gown flowing open, so as to reveal the flounced cambric skirt which her sewing-girl had sat up till midnight to finish.
He pointed away, with his pipestem, to the violet-shadowed mouth of one of the narrow lanes opening between the slop-shops, wine-shops, and cheap eating-houses their gaudy striped, flounced awnings bellying and straining in the fervid southerly breeze which lined the further side of the crowded quay.
There was a very rich woman, plastered with diamonds, who demanded the free use of my garage for the storage of her automobile. When I explained that, to my profound regret, it was impossible, because three American guest cars were already stored there and the place could hold no more, she flounced out of the room in high dudgeon.
But, if you'll believe it, for all the pains I took to be almost over- polite to her, and not say a word to hurt her feelin's, that woman acted mad, and flounced out of the room as if she was sent. Good land! what strange creeters there are in the world, anyway! Wall, I had fairly forgot that the boy wus in the room.
The sisters were very nearly of an age, and with their soft black curls and bright brown eyes, their flounced and embroidered dresses with dainty collars of lace, they looked very different from the more suitably dressed village children. Caroline was eleven, and Catherine nine years old. But they were far in advance of the other children of the school.
Was she beautiful?" "Very!" "Don't say it that way. Goodness! How I hate her!" Miss Warren flounced back into the corner of the hammock, and Norvin said with a laugh: "No wonder you have a train of suitors." "I've never seen a really beautiful Italian woman except Vittoria Fabrizi, of course." "Your friend, the nurse?" "Yes, and she's not really Italian, she's just like anybody else.
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