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Last night it had devolved on him to kiss away the tears of the young lady's maid, a Valtelline peasant-girl, who deplored the idea of an expedition over the mountains, and had, with the usual cat-like tendencies of these Italian minxes, torn his cheek in return for his assiduities.
Gruntham again with no aitches to mind. I'll be with you in ten minutes, and then, lass, ye'll just run away and have a bath I managed the aitch that time and come back as fresh as a daisy, if there were such a innocent thing in this land of sphinxes and minxes and ye'll see ten beads then, which sounds as tho' I be a Roman instead of a strict Baptist.
I chaperoned my men, while among the ladies of Esoon a forward set of minxes with the vigilance of a dragon; and decreed, like the Mikado of Japan, "that whosoever leered or winked, unless connubially linked, should forthwith be beheaded," have their pay chopped, I mean; and as they were beginning to smell their pay, they were careful; and we got through Esoon without one of them going into jail; no mean performance when you remember that every man had a past to put it mildly.
He passed them all by, had done so ever since last summer, though you might be sure that they, artful minxes, by no manner of means passed him by, without giving them a thought! As Daisy wasn't here, he would probably keep away to-day. There was comfort in that thought, too. And then Mrs. Bunting sat up, and memory returned in a dreadful turgid flood.
"Girls aren't what they used to be in my young days." "Yes, they are," said Tuppence. "Their clothes are different, perhaps, but they themselves are just the same." "Well, perhaps you're right. Minxes then minxes now!" "That's it," said Tuppence. "I'm a frightful minx myself." "I believe you," said the old gentleman, chuckling, and pinched her ear in high good-humour.
Mademoiselle Servien only muttered that great ladies were no better than others, and that she thought more of herself with her merino skirt than all those set-up minxes in their flounces and finery, adding: "Better a good name than a gilt girdle." But this talk was beyond little Jean's comprehension.
And so often when you talked of poetry I have felt lonely and chilled and far away from you, and I have been half envious, dear, of your Heros and Helens and your other good-for-nothing Greek minxes. But now I do not mind them at all. And I will make amends, quite prodigal amends, for my naughty jealousy: and my poet shall write me some more lovely poems, so he shall " He said: "You fool!"
"Then I will not go on, but you must keep me company all night." "We will do so, if papa does not object. We will have your chaise put into the coach-house." These two minxes gave me an excellent supper, and were a match for me in drinking as well as eating.
Mme. de Montpensier had the temerity to laugh; but for the rest, a sort of little groan ran through the company. Mme. de Mayenne bade sharply, "Peace, Blanche!" Mme. de Brie, red with anger, flamed out on her and Mlle. de Montluc equally: "You impudent minxes! 'Tis enough that one of you should bring my son to his death, without the other making a mock of it."
Further, the reverend gentleman never took Michal to weddings or other entertainments, the canonical prescriptions forbidding a clergyman's daughter to dance. In fact, he did not even let her make the acquaintance of other girls, for fear she should get a liking for the frivolous ways of the gossiping minxes.
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