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"Know her?" said a voice at his shoulder it was the voice of a critic. "Why, she's first-rate! Isn't she the girl that used to play small parts at the Frivolity? Who discovered that she had a voice?" "Old Lalli, I believe first-violin in the orchestra," said Hubert. "Ah! Did he teach her, then? How did she get to della Scala? That woman's charges are enormous as big as Lamperti's!"

Conscious of their lack of ideas, they think to earn the reputation of men of sterling sense, by inveighing continually against what they deem to be frivolity; while they only expose more clearly to all observers the sad vacuum which exists in their pericraniums.

Singular, communed the guest with himself, the wonderfully unequal faculty of metempsychosis possessed by them, that the puerperal dormitory and the dissecting theatre should be the seminaries of such frivolity, that the mere acquisition of academic titles should suffice to transform in a pinch of time these votaries of levity into exemplary practitioners of an art which most men anywise eminent have esteemed the noblest.

"Rather, but I'm starving, give me something to eat, while I talk." The lunch was produced, and he fell to with avidity, but he saw they were in no mood for frivolity, and he did not presume upon their indulgence.

"You see," she said gaily, "her I am quite safe and ready to mock at all seriousness-the grasshopper entertaining the ant. Do you think you can stand so much gayety, Mr. Markham?" "Even an ant must have its moments of frivolity." "You frivolous!" she smiled. "I've always wanted to be. It's one of my secret longings. I was born old. Show me how to be young and I'll give you anything I possess."

You're too theoretical to-night for a place of traditions. We'll shelve our little cabaret till some hour when genius burns, and instead I'll plunge you straight into common frivolity, as though you were some Cockney tourist getting his week-end's worth! Have you ever heard of the Bal Tabarin?" "Never. And I would much much rather " "No, you wouldn't! I have spoken. Come along!"

Of a verity, frivolity may be fatal, and death may follow a liking for private theatricals and the other empty amusements of fashion; but is it worth while to break a butterfly on the wheel and to put a humming-bird to the question? To say what fate shall be meted out to the woman taken in adultery is always a hard task for the dramatist.

Rainer, having signed, was about to push the paper across the table to Mr. Balch; but the latter, again raising his hand, said in his sad imprisoned voice: "The seal ?" "Oh, does there have to be a seal?" Faxon, looking over Mr. Grisben at John Lavington, saw a faint frown between his impassive eyes. "Really, Frank!" He seemed, Faxon thought, slightly irritated by his nephew's frivolity.

The note at once threw every thing else into the background. What were invasions and armies what were kings and kingdoms to the slightest wish of the being who had written this billet? All this I admit to be the fever of the mind a waking dream an illusion to which mesmerism or magic is but a frivolity.

It is a little too much to ask her to go back to the position of the squaw, and to do any work for herself. But it is worse to ask her to remodel the world around her, on the understanding that henceforth duty and toil and self-respect are to take the place of frivolity and indolence and adoration. The great passion which knits the two sexes together presents a yet stronger difficulty.