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Trevor, you are a handsome young fellow, and I do not want handsome young fellows about my niece. I see too many of them: they have little fortune, and less shame; they give me a deal of trouble; no good can come of their smirking and smiling, their foppery and their forward prate. My niece I believe has much more prudence than is usual with the young minxes of the present day.
And a chorus of female voices rose, bewailing the scarcity and dearness of provisions, cursing the émigrés and devoting to the guillotine the Commissaries of Sections who were ready to give good-for-nothing minxes, in return for unmentionable services, fat hens and four-pound loaves.
"I must see this treasure," thought the countess to herself. "I am tired of these foreign minxes." But no matter at what cunning hour her ladyship might call, the "treasure" always happened for some reason or other to be abroad. "Your girl is always out when I come," laughed the countess. "One would fancy there was some reason for it." "It does seem odd," agreed Clementina, with a slight flush.
In fact two girls leaned out. Their type was manifest: well-housed, well clad, well fed, luxurious, loose-living, light-hearted minxes. One was plump, full-breasted, merry-faced, with intensely black and glossy hair, a brunette complexion and in her cheeks a great deal of brilliant color, which I afterwards found was all her own, but which at first I took for paint.
But come away from this noise; I should like to ask you so much, and here one can hardly hear one's own voice." "Directly," he said; "I only wanted " His eyes wandered searchingly over the dancing-ground, then he heard a man's voice behind him, saying: "Just look at those two little minxes, mad after men." Instinctively he turned round, and saw the brothers Erdmann, whom he had not met for years.
A survey of the author's female characters will recall over a score of names of discontented girls experimenting in life flirts, minxes, unhappy wives, and shallow society women; while after passing over half a dozen of the ingénue, the amusing and the neutral types, there remain only about four to represent the highest and most lovable qualities of womanhood.
She feared all sorts of evil for her boy, from damp sheets and unmended linen to over-study, wine-parties and bold-faced minxes weaving subtle webs of fascination. But for the first time in his life Alick stood out against her insistance, and his will conquered hers. The sequel of the struggle was, that he went to Oxford, took his degree, read for orders, passed, and that Mr.
Defeated in his campaign against the fingers before it had begun, Richard was driven to discuss Dorothy's work-a-day resolves. "Newspaper work? Do society, I suppose?" Richard had gotten hold of the idioms of the craft, and spoke of "doing society" as though reared among the types. "No, not society," and Dorothy shook her head. "I'd pick 'em to pieces, the minxes; and the papers don't want that.
Caudle appeared to be a somewhat foolish lady. "But what had Caudle ever done to improve Mrs. Caudle's mind?" Had he ever sought, with intelligent illuminating conversation, to direct her thoughts towards other topics than lent umbrellas and red-headed minxes? It is my complaint against so many of our teachers. They scold us for what we do, but so rarely tell us what we ought to do.
Don't tell me to let you have ONE night's rest! I wonder at your impudence! It's mighty fine, I never can go out with you and goodness knows! it's seldom enough without having my feelings torn to pieces by people of all sorts. A set of bold minxes! "Oh, you know very well very well, indeed, Mr. Caudle. A pretty person she must be to nod to a man walking with his own wife!
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