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Cyr, he adds the following strange romantic allusion: "Had such a charity as I have been speaking of existed here, the mild Parthenia and my poor Laura would not have fallen into untimely graves." The practical details of his plan, in which it is equally evident that he means to be serious, exhibit the same flightiness of language and notions.
"Oh how little," cried she, "are the gay and the dissipated to be known upon a short acquaintance! expensive, indeed, and thoughtless and luxurious he appeared to me immediately; but fraudulent, base, designing, capable of every pernicious art of treachery and duplicity, such, indeed, I expected not to find him, his very flightiness and levity seemed incompatible with such hypocrisy."
She was not absolutely false by disposition, but necessity had made her so, and her natural flightiness made her appear twice as false as she was. The distress and poverty in which she had so long lived had narrowed her mind, and abased her heart and her sentiments.
And we see one legitimate result in that flightiness of the feminine mind which, in a lower stratum of current literature, displays inaccurate opinions, feeble prejudices, and finally blossoms into pert vulgarity. But instances of perverted license increase our obligation to Mrs. Child, Mrs. Stowe and to others whose eloquence is only in deeds.
Here, therefore in his France, if not always free from flightiness, if now and then off like a rocket for an airy wheel in the clouds, M. Michelet, with natural politeness, never forgets that he has left a large audience waiting for him on earth, and gazing upwards in anxiety for his return: return, therefore, he does.
Her feelings and her thoughts were so circumscribed, that she was in truth always less even than Madame Scarron, and in everything and everywhere she found herself such. Nothing was more repelling than this meanness, joined to a situation so radiant. Her flightiness or inconstancy was of the most dangerous kind.
Among the priests who refused the oaths were some men eminent in the learned world, as grammarians, chronologists, canonists, and antiquaries, and a very few who were distinguished by wit and eloquence: but scarcely one can be named who was qualified to discuss any large question of morals or politics, scarcely one whose writings do not indicate either extreme feebleness or extreme flightiness of mind.
Now perhaps he's caught, and his name is to be dragged in the mire, and it's my flightiness, my lack of commonsense that has done it!" "I shouldn't let that trouble me," I said. "You could not know " "Oh, it's not that! It's that I hadn't a single courageous word to say to him not a hint that he ought to refuse to wring blood-money from sweat-shops!
The excellence of a national spirit thus composed is freedom from whim, flightiness, perverseness; patient fidelity to Nature, in a word, SCIENCE, leading it at last, though slowly, and not by the most brilliant road, out of the bondage of the humdrum and common, into the better life.
Your grandmother will have to lend ME the dog." This was a flightiness which Little Ann did not encourage. "Lady Joan that's her daughter is very grand and haughty. She's a great beauty. You'll look at her, but perhaps she won't look at you. But it's not her I'm troubled about. I'm thinking of Captain Palliser and men like him." "Who's he?"
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