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Brashear's plump little hands made gestures so fluttery and helpless that her lodger was moved to come to her aid. "What's the matter, Mrs. Brashear? What's troubling you?" "If you could make it convenient," said she tremulously, "when your month is up. I shouldn't think of asking you before." "Are you giving me notice?" he inquired in amazement. "If you don't mind, please.
Any chance three blocks of Oxford Street could be relied on to do better. Keeping the polls open once in so often, a few hours, and using hearsay and little slips of paper anybody dropping in seems a rather fluttery and uncertain way to pick out the representatives of the people, after one has considered three blocks of Oxford Street.
He did not say that it was important, too, to give Madame Forsyth ample opportunity to get away from Gray Manor. Robin drew a long breath and relaxed. It had taken so very much courage to run away that she had little left with which to face her new life. Tomorrow it might be easier. Miss Effie Allendyce took her under her wing in a fluttery, mothery sort of a way with a great many "my dear's."
She went to sleep, thinking that he would suffer horribly if anybody hurt him; but who would hurt him? Jon, on the other hand, sat awake at his window with a bit of paper and a pencil, writing his first "real poem" by the light of a candle because there was not enough moon to see by, only enough to make the night seem fluttery and as if engraved on silver.
"Lit-lit," so called from her fashion, even as a child, of being fluttery, of darting about from place to place like a butterfly, of being inconsequent and merry, and of laughing as lightly as she darted and danced about.
She went to sleep, thinking that he would suffer horribly if anybody hurt him; but who would hurt him? Jon, on the other hand, sat awake at his window with a bit of paper and a pencil, writing his first "real poem" by the light of a candle because there was not enough moon to see by, only enough to make the night seem fluttery and as if engraved on silver.
She was speaking very slowly, her eyes warm and fluttery and melting, a soft flush on her cheeks that did not go away. "I never knew until just now when you put your arms around me. And I never expected to marry you, Martin, not until just now. How did you make me love you?"
Then, when the train passed the fence where the three children were, newspapers and hands and handkerchiefs were waved madly, till all that side of the train was fluttery with white like the pictures of the King's Coronation in the biograph at Maskelyne and Cook's.
It was in the dusk of Death's fluttery wings that Tarwater thus crouched, and, like his remote forebear, the child-man, went to myth-making, and sun-heroizing, himself hero-maker and the hero in quest of the immemorable treasure difficult of attainment.
The First Assistant sat back and felt of her cap, which was of starched tulle and was softening a bit from the steam. She felt a thrill of pity for the Probationer. She, too, had once felt fluttery when the Head came in. "She is very anxious to stay," she observed. "She works hard, too. "She has no personality, no decision," said the Head, and sneezed twice.
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