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"Don't let me hear you speak so flippantly of matrimony," she began severely; "and for your future edification, it is not the man but the woman who swears to obey." "Then why in Heaven's name don't you do as I bid you?" "As you bid me! Come, that's rather strong form, I must say! You're not Rowley, are you?"
She was looking at the ten-kronen piece. "Where is the other?" she asked in a whisper. "In my powder-box." Little Scatchett lifted the china lid and dropped the tiny gold-piece. "Every little bit," she said flippantly, but still in a whisper, "added to what she's got, makes just a little bit more." "Have you thought of a place to leave it for her? If Rosa finds it, it's good-bye.
You have the eye of a calculating apothecary. I believe you regard everybody you meet in the light of a possible patient." "Naturally," said Max. "I suppose even you are mortal." "Oh, yes, I shall die some day like the rest of you," she answered flippantly. "But I shan't have you by my death-bed. I shouldn't think you had ever seen anybody die, have you?" "Why not?" said Max.
"You're one smart young feller, now, ain't ye?" said his father, for this information was given out by Marty at the supper table one evening just before the "great day," as he called the last session of school for that year. "I b'lieve I'm smart enough to know when to go in and keep dry," returned his son, flippantly. "But I've my doubts about Mr. Adams for a fac'."
"I guess Steve can manage the circumstances by himself," he replied coldly, turning over the evening paper. "She probably reads the magazines and believes all she hears." "All intelligent women read the magazines and believe what they hear or else what their husbands tell them," she rejoined flippantly. Presently, as Lane continued to look over the stock page of the paper, she observed:
These boastings have always shocked me, for I reverence love as the noblest of the passions, and it is impossible for me to conceive how one who has truly fallen victim to its benign influence can ever thereafter speak flippantly of it.
"And the pale little boy, with big, owl-like eyes," continued Addie, flippantly, "stalked along as if going to a funeral, while Ninon tripped and danced at his side.
"You hobby seems to be preparing for suicide and changing your mind," he said. "I am sorry to hear you speak so flippantly on a solemn subject," said Milburgh. "As I say, I waited a little too long; but I was anxious for complete darkness to fall before I made my way into the flat. This I did easily because Odette had lent me her key.
The young gentleman was very lavish of his powers of pleasing, loaded Jane with flippant compliments, devoured confectionary with high relish, and chattered most flippantly in the most approved style of fashionable inanition. The high-spirited girl had no idea of being thus disposed of in the matrimonial bazaar.
The review of Edna's work was headed by that calm retort of Job to his self-complacent censors, "No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you"; and it contained a withering rebuke to those who had so flippantly essayed to crush the young writer. Mr.
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