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He had already dismissed from his mind the sorrows of the orphaned niece he cared not for the spirited onslaught of the Swiss woman and he rejoiced in his heart at the fact of Douglas Fraser's departure to gather up the loose ends of his dead brother's great fortune. "It's a vixenish baggage this Swiss teacher! Hugh was right to bid me cut those cords at once and forever between them!
As for you" she turned in a vixenish manner on Anne "I hope you will be put in gaol some day. If I die you will be hanged hanged!" And with a stamp of her foot she dashed out of the room, banging the door. "Hysteria," said Morley, wiping his face, "we must have a doctor to see her."
'I told her that that was too good news to be true. Is it true, Miss Garston? 'Yes; she has gone. 'I am glad of it, with a vixenish sharpness that surprised me. 'I hated that woman, and yet I was afraid of her too: she got me in her toils, and then I was helpless. Where has Giles gone, Miss Garston? Chatty said he went off in a dog-cart with his portmanteau.
"Was the poor man to blame for not being rude enough to say No, when a lady asked him to turn over her music? Could he help it, if the same lady persisted in flirting with him? He ran away from her the next morning. Did you deserve to be told why he left us? Certainly not after the vixenish manner in which you handed the bedroom candle to Miss Melbury. You foolish girl!
Campion, too, has married and married the last woman in the world to whom one would have thought of mating him a frivolous butterfly of a creature who drags him to dinner-parties and Ascot and suppers at the Savoy, and holds Barbara's Building and all it connotes in vixenish detestation.
'Now vere am I to pull up? inquired the driver. 'Settle it among yourselves. All I ask is, vere? Here the contest was renewed with increased violence; and the horse being troubled with a fly on his nose, the cabman humanely employed his leisure in lashing him about on the head, on the counter-irritation principle. 'Most wotes carries the day! said one of the vixenish ladies at length.
'I think that is the prospect. But I do not know that I am under any obligation to meet her, so I think I shall prefer the company of your vixenish little mare. Not to speak of the chance of encountering Mr. Falkirk, said Rollo, lifting his eyebrows. 'I shouldn't like to stand Mr. Falkirk's shot this morning! 'It will hit nobody but me, she said, rather soberly. 'Is he a good marksman?
'The 'ouse with the yellow door, cabman. But after the cabriolet had dashed up, in splendid style, to the house with the yellow door, 'making, as one of the vixenish ladies triumphantly said, 'acterrally more noise than if one had come in one's own carriage, and after the driver had dismounted to assist the ladies in getting out, the small round head of Master Thomas Bardell was thrust out of the one-pair window of a house with a red door, a few numbers off.
"I'm afraid the child is really getting spoiled, Julia," he mildly suggested. "She's getting a a vixenish," declared Mr. Bill, mopping his expansive white waistcoat. "You des better lemme go atter a twig er willow, Marse Peyton," muttered Uncle Shadrach in the Governor's ear.
Before she was short-coated, she had contrived to exhibit a very spirited, and even vixenish temper, and the family doctor, who loved a small joke, used to ask after Miss Vixen when he paid his professional visits. As she grew older, her tawny hair was not unlike a red fox's brush in its bright golden-brown hue, and her temper proved decidedly vixenish.
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