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You are too old for love in a cottage, I suppose?" "Not at all too old; Frank, you know is 'still quite a boy." Impudent hussy! forward, ill-conditioned saucy minx! such were the epithets which rose to Lady Arabella's mind; but she politely suppressed them. "Miss Thorne, this subject is of course to me very serious; very ill-adapted for jesting.
Ungrateful little beast! minx! temptress! You seduce me into your carriage to feed me, to fill me, for to coax me," cried Pericles. "Am I the person to have abuse poured on me?" Vittoria rejoined, and she frowned. "Might I not have called you a wretched whimsical money- machine, without the comprehension of a human feeling?
"Then you must have seduced him, you wicked minx, for a more innocent boy never was known." Poor Ellen, confounded at the accusation, repelled it as untrue, and said she knew well enough who seduced me. Aunt for the moment felt this as a home thrust, for be it remembered, she fancied she had had my maidenhead. "What do you mean by that? I insist upon you speaking out."
Did you see how the little minx was dressed? Did you see how she carried herself? If we both live to be a thousand years old you'll never catch me wearing such clothes!" I nodded in a noncommittal fashion, not caring at the moment to take issue with Miss Primleigh. Arguments I detest. If she chose to misinterpret my sentiments, so be it then.
Indeed its owner has robbed men that I thought sensible, not only of their peace, but, I should say, of their wits also. I had one friend of whom I thought a great deal, and it was pitiable to see the abject state to which the heartless little minx reduced him. I am glad to find that her witchery has no spell for you, and that you detect just what she is through her disguise of beauty.
I know more about them than you do, which you forget, and if Charles had taken you that motor drive well, you'd have reached the house a perfect wreck. Oh, Margaret, you don't know what you are in for. They're all bottled up against the drawing-room window. There's Mrs. Wilcox I've seen her. There's Paul. There's Evie, who is a minx. There's Charles I saw him to start with.
Stafford Molyneux was over. The pastry-cooks and their trays, the bay and the gray, the brougham and the groom, the noblemen and their cabs, were all gone; and the tradesmen in the neighborhood were crying out that they were done. "Serve the odious minx right!" says Miss C.; and she played at piquet that night with more vigor than I have known her manifest for these last ten years.
Another damaging shock, followed by another series of bad attacks the old spells, chills and internal revolutions had returned. She rapidly became useless and a burden. The school-doctor sent her a thousand miles to another specialist. We first met Clara Denny effervescent, winning, almost charming a sixteen-year-old minx. Let us scrutinize her at thirty-six. What a deformation!
But the minx knew that the Senator prided himself on having the only "pot-hooks" of the great "A," or the first artistic efforts of "B," I leave the real names to be filled in by the connoisseur, and the Senator became interested. For the last year, two or three of these abominations had been hanging in his study, utterly ignored by the casual visitor. But here was appreciation!
He was too big to give offence to an impudent little minx like me. Besides, I wanted him to help me, and after a bit I told him so. Archie my cousin, you know; he was only a boy then was mad on card-playing at that time. And I was real worried about him. I knew he would get into a hole sooner or later, and I begged my surly Englishman to keep an eye on him. Oh, I was a fool!
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