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Esperance had been compelled to reason calmly on all subjects, and the inconsequence of youth had been frowned upon by his father. Edmond Dantès had been young, vivacious and full of illusions and hopes. Monte-Cristo forgot this, and forgot that Esperance was but twenty.
'I'd hit him in the eye! cried Ferdy, with cheerful inconsequence. 'Perhaps you don't care to come to dinner at half-past seven, the girl said to Miss Steet; 'but I should be very glad I'm all alone. 'Thank you so much. All alone, really? murmured the governess. 'Why don't you get married? then you wouldn't be alone, Geordie interposed, with ingenuity.
She only bewailed the flighty inconsequence of modern young women, until she reflected that Emmy's father had gone and come with disconcerting unexpectedness from the day of their wedding to that of his death on the horns of a buffalo; whereupon she fatalistically attributed her daughter's ways to heredity.
With true masculine inconsequence, so soon as he was displeased with himself he visited his displeasure upon the object that attracted him, and on the earliest possible occasion, on their very next meeting. He assumed an air of coldness and reserve such as he had certainly not thought necessary to put on at his first visit.
Diana maintained her rôle of gay inconsequence because it pleased her best. "It all sounds very superior and all that rot, and I'm sure Meryl would call you a hero; but I should swear myself black and blue in your shoes, and that's about what you do pretty often, I expect." His smile grew fresher and more genuine. "It doesn't do much good though." "O yes it does. Don't tell me!
He has given him notice." "The old scoundrel!" Peter couldn't keep this back. "But Nick will work the better for that he'll depend on himself." "Yes, and whom shall we depend on?" Grace spoke up. "Don't be vulgar, for God's sake!" her mother ejaculated with a certain inconsequence.
The servant came in at this moment to lay the table for lunch, and Dan went to the looking-glass with the inconsequence of a child, and forgot his grievance in the contemplation of his own beloved image and in abusing Lady Galbraith. Abusing somebody was mental relaxation of the most agreeable kind to him.
He held her hard and kept her long, and she let herself go; but it was an embrace that, august and almost stern, produced, for all its intimacy, no revulsion and broke into no inconsequence of tears.
"Oh, you have points, and nobody knows them better than Waring Ridgway," she told him jauntily. "But you needn't play that role to the address of Aline Harley. Try ME. I'm immune to romance. Besides, I'm engaged to you," she added, laughing at the inconsequence the fact seemed to have for both of them.
The directness of the challenge made it easier for Darrow to protest, and he reiterated his inability to give an opinion on either side. "But Anna declares you have on hers!" He could not restrain a smile at this faint flaw in an impartiality so scrupulous. Every evidence of feminine inconsequence in Anna seemed to attest her deeper subjection to the most inconsequent of passions.
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