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'Yes, so flippant; and behind it all you seem to feel something iron-like, strong and impenetrable. Flippant! Ryder had appealed to Jim as anything but a flippant character. 'He is a man of good family. He came to Australia seeking change and adventure. He is rich very. He did Mr. Macdougal some service, and we saw a good deal of him in Melbourne. Mrs.
He held his hands out, with the light soft smile of one who asks forgiveness for flippant speech, and concluded firmly: "I have talked enough, and you are the man of sense I thought you; for to give me advice is childish when no power on earth could make me follow it. Addio! Kiss me." They embraced.
A handsome woman, this madame, a woman of about two-and-thirty, with the tar-black eyes and the twilight coloured tresses of Northern Russia; bold as brass, flippant as a French cocotte, steel-nerved and calm-blooded as a professional gambler. "Your hirelings will tamper with his birds and his effects in the night I know that, Monsieur le Comte," she had said when she demanded this.
There was something almost flippant in her tone. Strange that Courtland did not recognize it. But the firelight, the white gown, the pure profile, the down-drooped lashes had done for him once more what the red light had done before taken him out of his normal senses and made him see a Gila that was not really there: soft, sweet, tender, womanly.
That smile, she felt, trailed like a flippant and fluttering tail to the kite of his racial solemnity and stubbornness of purpose, enabling it to rise higher even while seeming to weigh it down. "And you always travel alone?" he finally asked, shaking off the last of his reserve. "Oh, I'm a bit of a globe-trotter that's what you'd call me on your side of the ocean, isn't it?
"Her Majesty is to be congratulated," said Sir Oliver elaborately. "It is for you to choose, sir," Sir John ran on, "whether you will be hanged on sea or land." "My only possible objection would be to being hanged in the air. But you're not likely to heed that," was the flippant answer. Lord Henry leaned forward again.
"You are not dull, Chauvenet; you are only shortsighted. The same witnesses know that John Armitage was at the Hotel Monte Rosa for twenty-four hours following the Count's departure. Meanwhile, where were you, Jules Chauvenet?" Chauvenet's hand again went to his face, which whitened, though he sought refuge again in flippant irony. "To be sure! Where was I, Monsieur?
Flippant, cynical, immoral these epithets, which were freely applied to it, all have their justification when one looks at the work from any other standpoint than that of its being a very amusing and clever exposition of sex relations governed by interest and passion.
"Life without honor, comrades," he said, severely, "life without honor is nothing." "Hear, hear!" cried Ironbeard; "good for you, old man!" "Silence!" thundered Wolf-in-the-Temple, "I must beg the gentlemen to observe the proprieties." This tremendous phrase rarely failed to restore order, and the flippant Ironbeard was duly rebuked by the glances of displeasure which met him on all sides.
Flippant as a schoolboy one moment, playful even in the bitterness of the next, and now no longer giving way to the feeling which had spoilt the climax of his tale, Raffles needed knowing as I alone knew him for a right appreciation of those last words. That they were no mere words I know full well.
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