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Cyr had come to his ears, and he had suddenly turned from her, thinking, no doubt, that she might someday betray him and his comrades, who had sworn to follow him; and so he had tricked her, as he tricked all others, whilst hundreds now owed their lives to him, and many families owed him both life and happiness. The mask of an inane fop had been a good one, and the part consummately well played.
I wish I could find a friend so easily as that! I wonder if I am acquainted with him? Would you mind telling me his name?" And then Flossy answered just one word in a low voice that was tremulous with feeling, and at the same time wonderfully clear, and with a touch of joy in it that would not be suppressed, "Jesus." Then it was that the exquisite young fop at her side was utterly dumbfounded.
We diverted ourselves with bantering several other poor scholars, with hopes of being at least his lordship's chaplains and putting on a scarf; and thus having lived like quality indeed, as to expense, we went away for Northampton, and, in a word, in about twelve days' ramble came home again, to the tune of about #93 expense. Vanity is the perfection of a fop.
Marmaduke's lies and vanities." "And for my part, I think it true as gospel," I cried. "Dolly always held a coronet above her colony, and all her life has dreamed of a duke." "Nay," answered Patty, more soberly; "nay, you do her wrong. You will discover one day that she is loyal to the core, tho' she has a fop of a father who would serve his Grace's chocolate.
He then alludes to the "cockney" improvements that had lately taken place, among which the venerable castle appears, like "A helmet on a Macaroni's head Or like old Talbot, turn'd into a fop, With coat embroider'd and scratch wig at top." Some verses, of the same mixed character, on the short duration of life and the changes that death produces, thus begin:
And while I am watching the birds, they are watching me. Not a little fop among them, having proposed and been accepted, but perches on a limb, and has the air of putting his hands mannishly under his coattails and crying out at me, "Hello! Adam, what were you made for?" "You attend to your business, and I'll attend to mine," I answer. "You have one May; I have twenty-five!"
But what amazed Policles most of all was the effect of this performance upon the audience. Every Greek was a trained critic, and as unsparing in his hisses as he was lavish in his applause. Many a singer far better than this absurd fop had been driven amid execration and abuse from the platform.
If your lordship has a mind to the box, I'll stand by you in the keeping of it. "FOP. My lord, I'm passionately oblig'd to you, but I am afraid I cannot answer your hazarding so much of the lady's favour. Charles, stand by me. Must not a man be a vain coxcomb now, to think this creature follow'd one? "SIR CHARLES. Nothing so plain, my lord. "FOP. Flattering devil." Enter LADY BETTY.
"Lady F. Ay, my dear, were you? Oh, filthy Mr. Sneer! he is a nauseous figure, a most fulsamick fop. He spent two days together in going about Covent Garden to suit the lining of his coach with his complexion. "Ld. F. Oh, silly! yet his aunt is as fond of him, as if she had brought the ape into the world herself. "Brisk. Who? my Lady Toothless?
Phoebicius had called the young sculptor a fop, and not altogether unjustly, for he loved to be well dressed and was choice as to the cut and color of his simple garments, and he rarely neglected to arrange his abundant hair with care, and to anoint it well; and yet it was almost indifferent to him, whether his appearance pleased other people or no, but he knew nothing nobler than the human form, and an instinct, which he did not attempt to check, impelled him to keep his own person as nice as he liked to see that of his neighbor.
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