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"Oh, he didn't really mean it serious. Why, Moose is so kind he hates ter kill anythin' even fer food. Sometimes when he's been livin' on bacon an' beans fer months, he lets a flock o' young ptarmigan fly by him 'cause he says they look so soft an' pretty an' fluttery he don't like ter shoot 'em; an' Moose is a dead shot. He's mighty handy with his fists too, an' next ter Mr.
Sam, as he walked to the telephone, had time to find that his heart was beating a tattoo against his ribs, that his breath was short and fluttery, and that stage fright had suddenly crept over him and claimed him for its own; so it was with no great patience or understanding that he heard Jack tell him in great glee about some tests which Princeman had had made in his own paper mills with the marsh pulp, and how Princeman was sorry he had not taken more stock, and could not the treasury stock be opened for further subscription?
I've made an important appointment for you tomorrow morning with a friend of mine." But not another word concerning the mystery would the lawyer say. The next morning Miss Effie started the two of them off for the "appointment" with a fluttery excitement bordering on hysteria.
During the bustle of preparing to leave, Bob's spirits were normal even though his nerves were a little fluttery. As they rode out of town he caught sight for a moment of a slim, dark girl in a blue gingham at the door of the hotel. She waved a hand toward the group of horsemen. It was Dud who answered the good-bye. He had already, Bob guessed, said a private farewell of his own to June.
"I knew Bopp, and hovered near till he came to find out who I was. I took you off in style, and it deceived him, for I'm only an inch or two taller than you, and kept my head down in the lackadaisical way you girls do; I whispered, so my voice didn't betray me; and was very clinging, and sweet, and fluttery, and that blessed old goose was sure it was you.
Both women watched it as if somehow held by it. "You didn't know her?" Mrs. Hale asked, a gentler note in her voice. "Not till they brought her yesterday," said the sheriff's wife. "She come to think of it, she was kind of like a bird herself. Real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and fluttery. How she did change." That held her for a long time.
I should have thought he'd want some one a bit less fluttery." "I dare say you're right, about the gossip, I mean " Miss Milbrey remarked when she had finished her tea, and refused the cakes. "I remember, now, one day when we met at her place, and he seemed so much at home there. Of course, it must be so. How stupid of me to doubt it! Now I must run.
And how excited and fluttery! Betsy had forgotten how fluttery Aunt Frances was!
Peter Kronborg's seventh child, a boy, was being soothed and cosseted by his aunt, Mrs. Kronborg was asleep, and the doctor was going home. But he wanted first to speak to Kronborg, who, coatless and fluttery, was pouring coal into the kitchen stove. As the doctor crossed the dining-room he paused and listened. From one of the wing rooms, off to the left, he heard rapid, distressed breathing.
And at last she said: "How is that Probationer with the ridiculous name getting along?" The First Assistant poured in more hot water. "N. Jane?" she asked. "Well, she's a nice little thing, and she seems willing. But, of course " The Head groaned. "Nineteen!" she said. "And no character at all. I detest fluttery people. She flutters the moment I go into the ward."
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