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"Oh," she stammered, "I must get in I must get in!" She took the knocker herself, and fluttered it against the door. "You see," said the artist, "they're all alike; these knockers are as stiff' as pokers." He again curved his hand over his eyes. Mrs. Pendyce leaned against the door; her knees were trembling violently. 'What is happening? she thought. 'Perhaps he's only asleep, perhaps Oh God!
Those, Lali, are his very words." His hand closed on hers, he reached out and took the other hand, from which the paper fluttered, and clasped both tight in his own firm grasp. "My daughter," he said, "you have another father." With a low cry, like that of a fawn struck in the throat, she slid forward on her knees beside him, and buried her face on his arm. She understood. Her father was dead.
"I am not sure," Norgate observed, "that she was altogether satisfied with the results of her visit to Rome." The Comtesse's fan fluttered slowly back and forth. She looked for a moment or two idly upon the brilliant scene. The smooth garden paths, the sheltered seats, the lawns themselves, were crowded with little throngs of women in exquisite toilettes, men in uniform and Court dress.
From the depths of her forlorn heart uprose a feeble-winged hope; it came and fluttered about her pale lips, bringing to them The smile of one, God-satisfied; and earth-undone. Marion turned round and saw it. "Cousin Olive, how very mild, and calm, and beautiful you look! Before you came, Aunt Flora told us she had heard you were 'like a dove. I can understand that now.
Ninian, while searching for the notices of Gilbert's play, had seen a sentence in a serial story in one of the newspapers.... "Her hands fluttered helplessly over his breast" ... and he was trying to discover exactly what the lady had done with her hands. "She seems to have just flopped them about," he said, and he turned to Gilbert. "Look here, Gilbert," he said, "you try it.
An imagination like his, peopled with such varied images and associations, fed by so many currents from the long stream of human experience, could hardly picture the bareness of the small half-lit place in which his wife's spirit fluttered.
But what I want to know is, when are we to have the house to ourselves again? Because, if this is to go on indefinitely, I depart!" Cynthia came nearer to her sister. Her colour fluttered a little. "Don't interfere just at present, Georgie," she said imploringly, in a low voice.
Vicky Van had money enough and though nothing about her home was ostentatious or over ornate, it was quietly and in the best of taste luxurious. But I was describing Vicky herself. Her gown, the skirt part of it, was a sort of mazy maize-colored thin stuff, rather short and rather full, that swirled as she moved, and fluttered when she danced.
The raven hopped to his feet with a scream of Joy, and the carrier pigeon, with a soft "Coo!" fluttered to his shoulder. To the watching men and women of that court it seemed a miracle. For a moment all was silent. Then the King found voice. "What does this mean?" he cried again. "How have this vagrant and his vile beasts found entrance to my palace? It is the hour for execution, not for mummery.
There had been a rumor about the country that he was already accepted; but such was not the case. He had fluttered about Buntingford, thinking of it: but he had never put the question. To his thinking it would not have been becoming to do so without some ceremony. Buston was not to be made away during the turnings of a quadrille or as a part of an ordinary conversation.
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