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No very close analysis of the sublatent impulses and motives of its actors is professed or attempted; only a fringe of guesswork at the best. But let a protest be recorded against the inevitable vernacular judgment in disfavour of the lady. "Of course the minx! As if she didn't know what she was about the whole time. As if she wasn't leading him on!"
The little insolent thing threw her arms around Frau Regine's neck, and said, flatteringly: "Now, don't be angry, mamma! I wouldn't exchange my Will for all the great ambassadors of the world, and neither would you." "You're a little minx," said Regine, striving to look as severe as ever. "You know very well that one can't be angry with you long.
That must be the reason of all this mighty display of mock modesty, and of her venturing to repulse the attentions of a duke, as scornfully, by Jove! as if he were a stable-boy. But she shall rue it the impertinent little minx! and I'll have no mercy shown to the audacious scoundrel who dared to disable this right arm of mine. Halloa there! send Merindol up to me instantly, do you hear?"
You have influence, and he will listen to you and it will kill me if he breaks with his grandfather for the sake of that woman! I believe the very sight of you would make him forget about that minx. Why, she is nearly as old as I am besides her history!" "I can have nothing to do with that, Lady Lucy," said Patsy, who saw no way of refusing.
Old Iron Christian was dumbfounded. He gasped, he stared, he stammered, and then fell on his son with hot reproaches. "What? Your wife? Wife? That trollop! that minx! that and daughter of that sot, too, that old rip, that rowdy blatherskite that And my own son is to lift his hand to cut his throat! Yes, sir, cut his throat And I am to stand by! No, no! I say no, sir, no!"
A flirting, husband-hunting little minx, she had fallen honestly in love with this big, blond, good-humoured Life Guardsman; and, incredible as it might seem to the world she lived in, remained so still. They understood each other marvellously well, those two.
A minx!" said Lady Underhill viciously. Once more Derek stirred uneasily, and once more he remained silent. A gleam came into Lady Underhill's black eyes. All her life she had been a fighter, and experience had taught her to perceive when she was winning. She blessed the dilatory cabman. "Well, I am not going to say any more," she said, getting up and buttoning her glove.
"Qui mihi non credit faciat licet ipse periclum, Mox fuerit studis aequior ille meis." Harrington Vizard, Esq., caught Miss Fanny Dover on the top round but one of the steps of his library. She looked down, pinkish, and said she was searching for "Tillotson's Sermons." "What on earth can you want of them?" "To improve my mind, to be sure," said the minx.
As far as it had been possible she had kept herself aloof from it, and though run after for her beauty, had been unpopular as being a "proud, cold, meaningless minx." When her father died she would speak to no one; and then it had been settled among the captains, lieutenants, and Colonial secretaries that she was a proud, cold, meaningless minx. And with this character she left the island.
Who are those women? Rowsley, are your grounds open every day of the week? She threatens to come in! Lady Charlotte had noted that the foremost and younger of 'those women' understood how to walk and how to dress to her shape and colour. She inclined to think she was having to do with an intrepid foreign-bred minx. Aminta had been addressed by one of her companions, and had hastened forward.
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