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"You ought to have stayed," she said stiffly. "The fun was just beginning when you flounced out." And then came one of the interesting events of this eventful night.
"He's up to no good," said Mary; and she flounced across to the door, and looked out at the now empty path. "Hanging about like that! Why can't he keep away? I don't want him." Mrs. Goudie, at the sink, screwed up her wrinkled nut-cracker face, and chuckled. "No, mum, she don't want un. But he wants she." And, astonishing as it might seem, this was truly the case.
Is who safe?" said he. "He means my mistress," replied Wilson, rather brusquely; and flounced out of the hall. "She is safe, no thanks to you," said General Rolleston. "What were you doing under her window at this time of night?" And the harsh tone in which this question was put showed Seaton he was suspected. This wounded him, and he replied doggedly, "Lucky for you all I was there."
He realized that he had never seen Mariana more becomingly dressed she wore a rough, silver-coloured suit with a short jacket, a pale green straw hat, like the new willow leaves, across the blueness of her eyes, and an innumerably ruffled and flounced waist of thinnest batiste.
'Well, said the undertaker, 'I ne ver did 'Never did, sir! ejaculated the beadle. 'No, nor nobody never did; but now she's dead, we've got to bury her; and that's the direction; and the sooner it's done, the better. Thus saying, Mr. Bumble put on his cocked hat wrong side first, in a fever of parochial excitement; and flounced out of the shop.
She was flounced and furbelowed from Head to Foot; every Ribbon was wrinkled, and every Part of her Garments in Curl, so that she looked like one of those Animals which in the Country we call a Friezeland Hen.
"I'll come, but you must play the latest popular songs for me, and Alice will sing 'Sweet, Sweet Home, and perhaps I can forget the cares of State until to-morrow, anyway." Maude flounced out of the door tossing a kiss from the tips of her fingers, to the astonishment of Sober Harry who had just entered, and who wished, from the bottom of his heart, that the flying salutation had been for him.
I wondered if they were going to put a warming-pan in the bed. A mat was laid down with great precision. Then Nilsson came in, dressed in a flounced petticoat trimmed with lace, a "matinee," and black slippers, and got into the bed. After the performance was over the curtain was raised and the artists came forward to bow; the stage was covered with flowers and wreaths.
'Cruelty be hanged! says I; 'didn't you draw that beer an hour before dinner? She could say nothing to THIS, you know, and I swore that every time she did so, I would fling it into her face again. Whereupon back she flounced to her chamber, where she wept and stormed until night-time." "When you forgave her?" "I DID forgive her, that's positive.
"You set him on, you little saucy vixen! I saw it in your eyes. Let the rascal be scourged." "Not so," said Dennet, with prim mouth and laughing eyes. "Far be it from me! But 'tis ever the wont of the kitchen, when those come there who have no call thither." Mistress Headley flounced away, dish-cloth and all, to go whimpering to the alderman with her tale of insults.
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