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Nothing is more humorously tragic than pleasure indulged in under protest. And Heath's protest was painfully apparent. Charmian, who was looking her best, her most self-possessed, a radiant minx, with fleeting hints of depths and softnesses, half veiled by the firm habit of the world, seemed to tower morally above the composer. He marvelled afresh at the triumphant composure of modern girlhood.
In one of the pauses a choleric old man gesticulated with his umbrella. 'If what the world needed was Woman's Suffrage, it wouldn't have been left for a minx like you to discover it. At which volleys of approval. 'That gentleman seems to think it's a new madness that we've recently invented. The child seemed in her loneliness to reach out for companioning.
She drawled so sweetly and fixed her mouth in such an odd way that he was impelled to kiss her. "You clover blossom," he would say to her, coming over and taking her by the arms. "You sprig of cherry bloom. You Dresden china dream." "Now, are you going to muss my hair, when I've just managed to fix it?" The voice was the voice of careless, genial innocence and the eyes. "Yes, I am, minx."
"That 's because it came out that Carrie used to forge excuses in her mamma's name, and go promenading with her Oreste, when they thought her safe at school. Oh, was n't she a sly minx?" cried Belle, as if she rather admired the trick. "I think a little fun is all right; and there 's no need of making a talk, if, now and then, some one does run off like Carrie.
She might, after all, be just an ordinary charming woman, enlivened by a streak of minx, and eager enough to catch the heir of Jervaise if he were available. How low my thought of her must have sunk at that moment! But they were, now, exchanging courtesies with an air that gave to their commonplaces the effect of a flirtation. I distracted my attention.
'I think he was at his old sarcasms, and meant that I was the same impertinent minx he remembered long ago, uncorrected by time; and so I am, and he must not expect compliments from old Monica Knollys. "It is a long time, Silas; but that, you know, is not my fault," said I. "Not your fault, my dear your instinct.
The minx who slipped into Horsham Manor. I told you about her. But her name isn't Smith." "Jerry has been looking for her." He laughed. "He thought at first, he said, he'd see her on the street, but was surprised to find the city so large. He was a little disappointed. But I think he's forgotten. There's safety in numbers." "Then he doesn't know anything yet?" "Bless your heart!
When that little story of mine appeared in all the glory of print, Fame stood at my door, a daughter of the stars in such array that it blinded one to look at her. She has never come near me since, and I have changed my opinion of her: a beguiling minx, with little taste or judgment, and more than her share of feminine lightness and caprice; an unconscionable flirt, that is all she is.
"Cobbler" Horn was busy in his workshop when they arrived; but Miss Jemima was awaiting them in solitary state, in the front-room. The good lady had meant to be forbidding and severe in her reception of the "forward minx," whom she had settled it in her mind the prospective secretary would prove to be. But the moment her eyes beheld Miss Owen she was disarmed.
Under that triumphant composure, that almost cruel banter, that whimsical airy contempt, that cool frivolity of the minx, there was emotion, there was love for him and for his talent. Always that night he thought of his talent in connection with Charmian's love, he scarcely knew why. For how long had she loved him? And why did she love him?
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