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The market is plenty good enough," declared Io flippantly. "Then you just took up books as a sort of freak; a side issue?" The disappointment in his face was almost ludicrous. "No." A quiet gravity altered her expression. "I'll tell you about me, if you want to hear.
"Is the story true about your your engagement?" asked the young fellow, abruptly. "My engagement? Well, I've had an offer of marriage, two of them. Wouldn't you advise me to take the best one?" rather archly. The tone rang flippantly. Jim felt she was evading. "You see I can't be young always. And Aunt Nicoll may go without a moment's warning.
"Well, those I don't get out of my clients, from where this snow does, the laws and forces of nature." "Your faith is like the snow, I think, very cold." "If it's cold in winter, it's warm in summer," retorted he, flippantly; and Addie giggled approvingly, for the reason that it sounded flippant and smart.
I give away the bulk of my income." "Marry, and then you will not have to," I said flippantly. "You're a sad dog. Do you know, I've been thinking about epigrams." "No!" "Yes. I find that an epigram is produced by the same cause that produces the pearl in the oyster." "That is to say, a healthy mentality never superinduces an epigram? Fudge!" said I, yanking the pup from his lap on to mine.
This, I think, the country will contest. He is obsessed by the idea of a League of Nations. If not his own discovery he has yet made himself its leader. He talks flippantly about "American ideals" that have won the war against Germany, as if there were no English ideals and French ideals. "In all that he does we can descry the school-master who arrived at the front rather late in life.
Miss Altifiorla remained silent for a while, feeling that she owed it to herself to awe her present companion by her manner before she should crush her altogether by the weight of the name she would have to pronounce. Mrs. Green had received her communication flippantly, and had probably felt that her friend intended to demean herself by some mere common marriage.
"Give me men enough to say it, and if they grow not weary I will bring the world to believe that the sun is only the breast-plate of Jupiter," said Augustus. "Honor and peace are good things do not forget that, my young friend. Give the words to your tongue, not flippantly, but with a sober eye, and often, my brave knight often. You leave to-morrow have you made ready?"
"I rather not be neither," said Amy flippantly. In those days, they always put two nots together when they meant to speak strongly. They did not see, as we do now, that the one contradicts the other. "Well, Mistress Amy, you have no need," said Elizabeth quietly. "And as to Christian profession why, Bess, every lady in the land wears ear-rings, yea, up to the Queen's Grace herself.
Already a dozen who had attended my Lord of Beauvais' levée that morning were fawning on the Cardinal; the Queen had turned her shoulder to him; a great lady over whom he bent to hide his chagrin, talked to him indeed, but flippantly, and with eyes half closed and but part of her attention.
"Does the fellow learn cooking, too?" Sally was impudent. She was enjoying herself. She rejoiced that he should be so jealous and authoritative when she knew that she could always play with him. "I don't know which fellow your aunt saw," she answered flippantly. "There's so many of them at the classes. I can't tell which it might be. Did she tell you what he was like?"
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