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"As for this Sir Basil," Imogen went on, "I used to wonder if he were another of these triflers with the sanctity of love, and of late I've wondered more. He writes to her constantly. What can the bond between mama and a man of that type be unless it's a sentimental one? And didn't you see her blush to-day?" Jack now raised his eyes to her and she saw that he, at all events, was blushing.
WAIFE. "Is it not because all our ideas would run wild if not concentrated on a definite pursuit? Fortune and Nature are earnest females, though popular beauties; and they do not look upon coquettish triflers in the light of genuine wooers." The Oxonian, who, in venting his previous remark, had thought it likely he should be above his listener's comprehension, looked surprised.
On the whole, however, the private experiments conducted by the sender and the receiver, with perhaps a few intelligent and sympathetic spectators, are far better than the "willing game" plan, in which there are usually many triflers present ready to make a joke of the whole thing, and thus taking away that true concentration under which the best results may be obtained. Formal Tests.
"And no doubt you have become such a learned little lady, that you will be quite formidable to such triflers as we," said the duchess, with a smile. "No, indeed, dear lady. I am slightly proficient in music and painting these are my only accomplishments." "Ah, you love music? How it delights me to know this, for I, too, am passionately fond of it!
Of what were they thinking? that crowd of youthful triflers, so many of whom were hurrying to the bloody destiny which made heroes of coxcombs and heroines of coquettes Suddenly the expression of the queen's face, which had been thoughtful and solemn, changed to its usual frankness and gayety.
As the result of his cogitations long-drawn-out he turned over a leaf in the Van Winkle family history. "Boys," said he, at the end of a rather stupefying half-hour for them, "you've heard what I have to say. You know that I love you all. You will agree that I have been a fond, foolish and over-indulgent father. As I've said before, it is my fault entirely that you are triflers and spendthrifts.
The beautiful yields only enjoyment; and those who live only to enjoy soon become intensely selfish. That enjoyment, moreover, is immediate, and so affords no room for the exercise of patience and foresight. A race of triflers arise, who think only of the present hour.
But as "people" meaning Marian's friends returned to town, they fell into the former routine. It was in part his doing, in part hers. He was now thirty-seven years old and his mind, always of a serious cast, was intolerant of trifles and triflers. Marian's range of interests was shallower but much wider than his. Her beauty, her cleverness, her tact caused her to be sought.
You will find her at Swampville, no doubt, selling her cheap kisses to triflers like yourself. Traitor! we meet no more!" Without waiting for a reply, or even to note the effect of her words, Marian Holt steps back into the forest, and disappears. The young hunter is too stupefied to follow.
Thus, men of business would be employed, instead of the relatives of our cabinets; dinner-giving would not be an essential of diplomacy; the ambassador's house would not be a centre for all the ramblers and triflers who preferred a silly and lavish life abroad to doing their duty at home; and a sum of much more than a hundred thousand pounds a-year would be saved to the country.
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