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The pretty servant did not nod an act which she considered as too flippant for the solemnity of devotion but she gently bowed her head, and closed her eyes in assent upon which was heard a somewhat cheerful groan, replete with true unction, inside the parlor, followed by a voice that said, "ah, Susannah!" pronounced in a tone of grave but placid remonstrance; Susannah immediately entered, and the voice, which was that of our attorney, proceeded "Susannah take your place long measure, eight lines, four eights, and two sixes."
Let us examine this pretension of the prophet of the importance of being flippant, to be a disciple of Pater. No doubt Pater was something of an Impressionist in his philosophy of life. It was the highest quality you were to give to your moments as they passed; to fail to do this was "on this short day of frost and sun to sleep before evening."
Readers of Silas Lapham will remember the rapid series of witty touches with which the burly Bostonian is sketched as he sits in the office of his warehouse, surrounded by samples of the mineral paint that he is so pathetically proud of, striving to maintain a dignified indifference as he answers the rather flippant curiosity of the local press interviewer.
"You are likely," Aynesworth remarked, "to achieve popularity." Wingrave regarded him steadfastly. "Your speech," he said, "is flippant, but you yourself do not realize how near it comes to the truth. Human beings are like dogs they are always ready to lick the hand that flogs them.
Perhaps this was because she had been taken so completely by surprise. "I shall call my mother," she threatened. "Oh, no, you won't. Besides, she wouldn't come." Then this frivolous young man began to sing in a low voice the flippant refrain, "Here's to the girl that gets a kiss, and runs and tells her mother," ending with the wish that she should live and die an old maid and never get another.
There are a few noble souls who rise above the bondage of their sex, and follow the dictates of their own consciences in dress as in other matters. This class embraces usually the very wealthy and the very learned people who compose the polite and refined circles, as distinguished from the flippant and fashionable ones. All honor to them.
We have no authority for revealing what passed, and can only observe that Jane returned to the drawing-room with a heightened colour, and there was a certain expression of mystery still lingering about Miss Adeline's face. "Have you any commands for Boston, Mrs. Graham?" the young lady inquired in her usual flippant manner.
But Crabbe's indulgence in this habit is never a mere concession to the reader's flippant taste. His epigrams often strike deeply home, as in this instance or in the line: "Too soon made happy, and made wise too late." The story that follows of Phoebe Dawson, which helped to soothe Fox in the last stage of his long disease, is no less powerful.
Joanna coloured until the red stain became undistinguishable, and even Polly felt conscious that her allusion was too flippant for the cause. "So you see, Lilias," she continued quickly, "I'm not the least ashamed of having been caught fast asleep in my room before dinner the other rainy day.
Dame Ellesmere's eyes were so often dim, that, even with the aid of spectacles, she failed to recognise, in the portly and mature personage who entered their cottage, the tight well-made lass, who, presuming on her good looks and flippant tongue, had so often provoked her by insubordination; and her former lover, the redoubted Lance, not being conscious that ale had given rotundity to his own figure, which was formerly so slight and active, and that brandy had transferred to his nose the colour which had once occupied his cheeks, was unable to discover that Deborah's French cap, composed of sarsenet and Brussels lace, shaded the features which had so often procured him a rebuke from Dr.
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