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"And who is this Miss West?" Sabina shook her head. "She calls him her father I'm sure of that." "Where does she come from? Where was she brought up?" "Couldn't say, ma'am. Jenkins says that Miss West used to act at the Frivolity Theatre he's seen her there about two years ago. Mr. Lepel took her up, as far as he can make out, about a year and a half ago soon after he settled in London again."
It was as though until the time of her marriage she had walked in darkness, a darkness that she fancied was day; walked perversely, carelessly, and with a frivolity that was almost wicked. Then, suddenly, she had seen a great light. Love had entered her world.
Mrs. Sandberg will take you in, and even if she isn't particularly amiable you'll be in safe hands." Hamilton laughed. "Oh, yes," he said. "She's Scotch old type Calvinist at that. No frivolity about that woman. Married a Scandinavian, and was just breaking him in when he was killed back East along the track." "We'll consider it as fixed, but in the meanwhile you're to stay with Mrs.
You can design very well," and he is in earnest now. "There are a great many branches. Why?" he asks, abruptly. "Oh," she replies, "I get so tired of the frivolity of life. I long to do something beyond the mere trifles." "I suppose you miss both of your sisters," he remarks, with a touch of sympathy. "You are learning now what loneliness is. Although there is your brother's wife "
He was doubtless ostentatious, but his hospitality was free, and his person was as accessible as a primitive bishop. He is accused of being light and frivolous; but this I doubt. He had too many cares and duties for frivolity. He doubtless unbent. All men loaded down with labors must unbend somewhere.
I'm not blaming her. God knows I don't blame her. I blame myself for being a blind ass. I hope she'll be happy, poor little girl. I want her to be. With all her irresponsibleness and her outside naughtiness and frivolity, her carelessness of men's feelings, her nonsense, and her teasing, pretty ways, I know that she is good at heart, sound, and sane and sweet. I want her to be happy!
"For heaven's sake, don't think of it, the curls suit you very well." She said this with a frivolity of manner which she immediately perceived to be unsuitable, and to get over her embarrassment, she jumped at another subject of conversation. "So you live quite alone? That strikes me as being very dreary. Still you must have many friends?"
He attributed to Flavia's frivolity of behaviour the difficulty he experienced in finding her a husband, and he had no intention of exposing himself to a second failure in the case of Faustina.
As a matter of fact many of our millionaires would be more at home in an atmosphere concocted from the ingredients of plain pine tables and blanket-covered mattresses than they are surrounded by the frippery of China and the frivolity of France.
Even during the horrors of the Revolution, if she met with a flower, a butterfly, an agreeable smell, a pretty colour, she would turn her attention to these, and for the moment suspend her sense of misery, not from frivolity, but from real philosophy. No one has exerted themselves with more energy in the service of her friends.
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