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He did what he could to fan the judge's resentment. He said it was probably, knowing Winona's ways, that she had wed a dissolute French nobleman, impoverished of all but his title. He hoped for the best, but he had always known that the girl was a light-minded baggage. He wondered how she could ever justify her course to Matthew Arnold if the need rose.
Even careless minds gained an idea of the immensity of human disaster from the aspect of this man, on whose face sorrow had cast its black pall, who revealed the havoc caused by that which had never before appeared in him, by thought! N'est pas detruit qui veut. Light-minded people, devoid of conscience, to whom all things are indifferent, can never present such a spectacle of disaster.
Had she felled the woman with a blow the effect could not have been more startling. Instantly the shrieks ceased and releasing her hold Minervy struck an attitude: "No'm, I HASN'T! I cyant think how I could a-been so careless-like, an' knowin' all de endurin' time dat I boun' fer ter be a widder. How could I a-been so light-minded?"
Flippant, light-minded, unreliable. At the time this book was written "gay" did not carry its present connotation of homosexuality, nor did it always carry the connotation of cheerful and happy that preceded the present connotation. "True enough," said the king, "I prefer the duc de la Vauguyon: he has a good reputation " "And well deserved," said the old marechal, sneering.
In that, Fani led the whole school, and he was, indeed, so successful with his pencil that the teacher often said to him: "Now, Fani, just see what you can do, if you only try! You could do far better than this, even, if you would only take pains, and not be so indifferent and light-minded."
The other girls therefore set her down as "odd." "Why, she hasn't a single picture on her bureau," said one girl who was visiting Cora. "Don't you suppose she has any folks?" "Maybe they're so ugly they're afraid of breaking the camera if they pose for a picture," giggled another light-minded girl.
"I am so hopelessly light-minded that I cannot refrain from being rational even in matters which concern me personally and this, of course, no normal being ever thinks of doing. I really cannot help it." The Frenchman groaned whole-heartedly. "But we were speaking well, of foreign countries.
Just what he meant by it was not so clear; but there it was, half comforting him, half excusing her; she was light-minded! Well, she was Fannie Ravenel now. "Happy Fannie Ravenel!" He said it with a tempered bitterness and went in. It was the sleeping-car he was on. Two steps brought him to the open entrance of its smoking-room they were enough.
The silly, light-minded girls in England who had found the younger man's attractions irresistible and raved over his dark skin and the fascinating suggestion of the Orient in him, should have seen the pair now.
Blindly he trudged through the high weeds and grass, now wet with dew. Cruel, cruel a joke, a mere joke, as such things went with the shallow and light-minded, and yet it was a tragedy. For several days, in the highest realm of fancy he had revelled in the first joys of fatherhood, only to have it end like this.
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