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Even as the two girls watched, a flash of a speckled back flounced up in play and splashed their shoes. "What a spot for trout!" whispered Polly, crawling out to the rim of a rock while Eleanor watched breathlessly. "Not too far out, Poll!" whispered Eleanor, anxiously, as Polly leaned over the edge to gaze into the clear depths.
If he is to be cleansed by bathing, are not the crystal streams of his own city, the glory of Damascus, better than the turbid and muddy Jordan that belongs to Israel? So he flounced away, and would have sacrificed his hope of cure to his passion if his servants had not brought him to common-sense by their cool remonstrance.
And Nina had flounced to a telephone, and had telephoned her friend in New York, laughing, coquetting, and murmuring for a blissful half hour. "Love'll come fast enough afterward!" Pilgrim had said, and Harriet thought Pilgrim was rather a wise woman, in her homely way. The girl stirred the fire and settled herself to watch it again. After what?
In her turn, the Irishwoman stalked out of the room and from the house with a tread of heavy dignity. "That goes with me, Pop!" Sadie declared, as she flounced out. "It's all been a terrible mistake," Cicily ventured to the three men who stood regarding her with sullen faces and baleful eyes after the revelations that had just been made. "I'm thinking you're right," McMahon agreed.
I made calls upon elegant ladies, and after I had enjoyed the gloss of silk and the delicacy of lace, and the flash of jewels, I slipped on my spectacles, and saw a peacock's feather, flounced and furbelowed and fluttering; or an iron rod, thin, sharp, and hard; nor could I possibly mistake the movement of the drapery for any flexibility of the thing draped, or, mysteriously chilled, I saw a statue of perfect form, or flowing movement, it might be alabaster, or bronze, or marble, but sadly often it was ice; and I knew that after it had shone a little, and frozen a few eyes with its despairing perfection, it could not be put away in the niches of palaces for ornament and proud family tradition, like the alabaster, or bronze, or marble statues, but would melt, and shrink, and fall coldly away in colorless and useless water, be absorbed in the earth and utterly forgotten.
'Do you think, asked Little Dorrit, persuasively, after a short hesitation, 'do you think, Fanny, that if you were to put it off for a few months, it might be, considering all things, best? 'No, little Tortoise, retorted Fanny, with exceeding sharpness. 'I don't think anything of the kind. Here, she threw her bonnet from her altogether, and flounced into a chair.
As it is impossible to display the productions of the millinery art in a close carriage in a crowd, Broadway is the fashionable promenade; and the lightest French bonnets, the handsomest mantles, and the richest flounced silk dresses, with jupons, ribands, and laces to correspond, are there to be seen in the afternoon.
"And if I find out that you done something outrageous to those cats to my Sam, 'specially it'll be the sorriest day of your life. Now, you see if 'tisn't!" She turned and flounced into her house. Janice came slowly back to the kitchen door where she found the new houseworker frankly listening. "Guess she's a sharper, ain't she?" squeaked the woman.
For this was Jacqueline; but it was not my Jacqueline. It might have been Jacqueline's grandmother when she was a girl this haughty belle with her high waist and side curls, and her flounced skirt and aspect of cold recognition. She did not stir as I approached her, but stood still, framed in the door-way, looking at me as though I were an unwelcome stranger. My outstretched arms fell to my sides.
The yokel himself, however, and particularly herself, seems determined to deny all poetic and picturesque relations, by clothing himself and herself in coarse, shop-made rubbish, in battered, démodé town-hats and flounced gowns from Petticoat Lane.
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