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The cages of the wild beasts were in the basement of the kitchen tower, with a little semicircular yard of their own before them. They were solid stone vaults, with open fronts grated with huge iron bars our ancestors, whatever were their faults, did not err in the direction of flimsiness.
As for an evening gown ... well, she simply couldn't conceive where even a hundred dollars would be available for one of these spangled harem veils that was passing muster as a full-grown dress... If she had possessed untold wealth, all this flimsiness, this stylistic froth, would have appealed to her; as it was, she was irritated by it. What were things coming to? she demanded.
As to womankind, it needed a great deal of submissiveness to endure her at all; and this was not Averil Ward's leading characteristic. In fact, the ubiquity of Mrs. Pugh was a sore trial to that young lady, just so superior herself as to detect the flimsiness of the widow's attainments.
It was a coarse and unmanly encounter the wit, strategy, finesse, and boldness of fish pitted against the empty noise and bluster of inferior man and the flimsiness of his despicable barriers. In silence and magnificent resolve they came at us. We fought with sticks and all the power of our lungs. Rest was out of the question.
The bungalow was a very solid one, but the partition-walls of the rooms were almost jerry-built in their flimsiness. Every step or bang of a trunk echoed from my room down the other three, and every footfall came back tremulously from the far walls. For this reason I shut the door. There were no lamps only candles in long glass shades. An oil wick was set in the bath-room.
But though the author gain this advantage, and thereby compel the reader to think of the personages of the novel and not of the writer, yet the practice, especially pushed to the extent we have noticed, is a principal cause of the flimsiness and incoherent texture of which his greatest admirers are compelled to complain.
It is a pleasure to meet at last that gentle and guileless feminine personality after you have wearied of the tinsel flimsiness, the bubbling frivolity, the sparkling emptiness of the society-women who so turned the head of the age in which they lived, and have so scandalously immortalized it.
"Here is invincible patience recommended under the worst of misery; indefatigable application and undaunted resolution under the greatest and most discouraging circumstances." And such is the moral of Defoe's own life. Mrs. Heywood had written a number of stories resembling, in the licentiousness of their character and the flimsiness of their construction, the novels of Mrs. Behn.
There was far too much flimsiness and fashionability about their social circle. In time he trusted to be able to make something out of Nan. Well, he was thrumming contemplatively on the window-panes, watching this big dark ship come along from the west. 'Thomas, I wish you would cease that distressing noise, said his mother, with a plaintive sigh. He ceased his thrumming and took to whistling.
Nora was silent for a time, while a gloom upon her face deepened. It had struck her that the theories for which she protested so energetically might not be of such great value. Spoken aloud, they had a sudden new flimsiness. Perhaps she had reiterated to herself that Coleman was the victim of glamour only because she wished it to be true. One theory, however, re- mained unshaken.
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