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"Oh, she, man! she is a poor sister of mine," said Wayland; "she can sing and play o' the lute would win the fish out o' the stream." "Let me hear her instantly," said the boy, "I love the lute rarely; I love it of all things, though I never heard it." "Then how canst thou love it, Flibbertigibbet?" said Wayland. "As knights love ladies in old tales," answered Dickie "on hearsay."
To the slow music, for such it was Flibbertigibbet beat time with her fingers on the pane to the step the Marchioness and the Boy, pointing their daintily slippered feet, moved up and down, back and forth, swinging, turning, courtesying, bowing over the parquet floor with such childishly stately yet charming grace that their rhythmic motions were as a song without words.
Because a Paris flibbertigibbet disposes with a joke of creeds, from which Pascal, with all his reasoning powers, could not shake himself free, it must not be concluded that the Gavroche is superior to Pascal.
Whereupon Flibbertigibbet rose in her wrath, shook her fist at the insulting personage, and vowed vengeance upon her in her own forceful language: "You're an old cat, and I'll rub your fur the wrong way till the sparks fly." At this awful threat Freckles looked alarmed, and suddenly realized that she was shivering, the result of sitting so long against the cold window.
Trent looked at his daughter again, and answered slowly: "Why, yes, Flibbertigibbet, I believe I am." The day that school began Faith returned home to find that a letter from her mother and father had arrived. It was a long letter, telling the little girl of all the happenings since her departure at the pleasant cabin in the Wilderness.
I'm off for France on the twelfth and you've simply got to meet my people. You'll be insane about 'em Rosemary's the most beguilin' flibbertigibbet, and I can't wait to see you bein' a kind of an elderly grandmother to her. What a bewitchin' little grandmother you're goin' to be one of these days " Oh, Jerry! Oh, Jerry, Jerry!
Then the bell rang its warning, the children formed in line and marched in to lessons. The two weeks in December in which Flibbertigibbet had given herself to the acquisition of the new language, proved long for the Marchioness. Every day she watched at the window for the reappearance of the two children at the bare upper window opposite; but thus far in vain.
"I never thought of saying my prayers to His mother before, but I shall now. He always had a mother, hadn't he?" Flibbertigibbet could think of nothing to say in answer, but she did the next best thing: she drew her rosary from under her dress waist and held it up to the Marchioness who nodded understandingly and began to fumble at her neck.
While the two children opposite were looking with all their eyes at this unexpected dénouement, the maid drew the shades, and Freckles and Flibbertigibbet were left to stare at each other in the dark and cold. Flibbertigibbet nodded and whispered: "That takes the cake. The Marchioness of Isola Bella ain't in it!" Freckles squeezed her hand.
But I doubt if you are very much like her except in appearance. You look to me like a flibbertigibbet, if you know what that is." "Yes, and I am one, thank you, Uncle Jeff," and Alicia laughed gaily, not at all abashed at her uncle's remark. "These are my two friends from Berwick, uncle," said Bernice, introducing them. "Dolly Fayre and Dotty Rose."
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