The flapper placed it to her lips and rose to her feet.
The flapper seemed to be on the point of tears, but she came into the room and sat across the table from him.
Of course, the fellow was unconscious of this, as he still must be of the rare joke the flapper was exquisitely holding over his head.
Tommy Hollins was a perfectly darling boy, a good sport and all that, but he couldn't be anything important to the flapper if he were the perfectly last man on earth.
The flapper gives him one long look, then bows her head.
He thought it would be a fine thing to get the flapper and go and be just perfectly married.
The flapper lay in wait for him at all hours when he might appear.
You're a king," declared the flapper in a burst of frankness.
The flapper played her ancient game of looking at him in that curious way.
Outside the door he met the flapper on one of her daily visits of inspection.
And what was the flapper just perfectly doing at that moment?
The flapper was showing traces of tears, but also a considerable acrimony.
The words implied that theflapper had waved a deprecating hand.
Just a perfectly little old king," persisted the flapper with dreamy certitude.
Of the interval that must have elapsed before he found himself seated in the grandstand between Breede and the flapper he was able to recall but little.
Two youngsters were present, who added their flapper slang to the general fund of amusement.
The flapper swung herself over the arm of a big chair, and landed Turkish fashion in its depths.
Maud, who was not entirely in favour of the young lady, being herself of the type that can't quite understand the flapper motif.
Let us go to the Codfish: here you see is the forearm, in this large pectoral fin--carrying your mind's eye onward from the flapper of the Porpoise.
After a while a little flapperof a beginner came to tell Millicent that Miss Grig wanted her.
Then a flapper entered with the tea-pot and the hot-water jug, and Lilian smiled at her, and the flapper blushed and smiled and tossed her winged pigtail.
Our optimistic journals his exasperation fire, And the idlers and the loafers stimulate his righteous ire; But it is the flapper chiefly that in his gizzard sticks, And he's down upon her failings like a waggon-load of bricks.
It's a strenuous indictment of our petticoated youth And contains a large substratum of unpalatable truth; Our women have been splendid, but the Sun himself has specks, And the flapper can't be reckoned as a credit to her sex.
Envoi Prince, let us leave this grove, pardie, A flapper is a fairer thing: Let us fare fast where such there be, And seek Spring Chickens in the Spring!
The Flapper was destined to assume a more aggressive aspect in later years--vide Dr.
She was so young and so small, and at the same time so perfect that Michael could think of her as looking like that for ever, not growing up into a tiresome, bouncing, fluffy flapper like Rosalind Jervis.
He was afraid that Ronny had grown into a tiresome flapper and that he would have to talk to her.
He overtook the Oglethorpe flapper and seizing her hand drew it through his arm.
If the flapper should adopt a coat of arms no doubt it would be a cocktail rampant with three cigarettes argent on a field de rouge.
And she had been very sweet after that odious flapper had taken herself off.
The emancipated flapper is just plain female under her paint and outside her cocktails.
We did succeed in lifting him up a little way, but he dealt us such severe blows with his flapper that over we both went, getting our mouths full of sand and water, and, of course, wet to the skin.
Ben crept up to the nearest, a fine fat fellow, and catching him by the flapper turned him over on his back, where he lay helplessly kicking, but unable to stir.
I climbed over the fence with no more ado than in pre-flapper days, and walked across the weedy grass to the house.
You naturally feel more at home with a flapper like me.
If I have occasion to consult the oracle I shall address myself to a proper one: to a tertiary: not to a primary flapper playing at being an oracle.
The meal was as good as it had been three months before, and the flapper as charming.
So I got up late and had a glorious meal of soup, omelette, and fruit in the town, waited on by a most excellent flapper who wanted to know everything about everything.
The only trouble is that his bridesmaid is my young sister, a flapper from school, and I know he'll make her giggle in the middle of the service.
Mother doesn't understand the condition at all, but is sufficiently wise to suspect that the behaviour of a certain young man with fascinating flapper sister may be contributory.
He remembered the concentrated fury and contempt that the flapper had put into the expression, and he instinctively felt that it was hopeless.
And after savagely pressing the bell, the flapper vanished.
A flapperis a very charming person," protested Everett.
It's English slang, and in England at the present the flapper is very popular.
To men of my years the flapper is really at the dangerous age.
It is a flapper you will never be again, Gertrude Smith-Hybrow, though you be after doing your queer best to look like one.
Over at the long table it was the sharp, roving eye of the snub-nosed flapper that spied him first.
The flapper dashed into her letter with a sort of incoherent squeal.
Young Mr. Flapper had a small pair of pocket-pistols, which the tipsy barrister had suddenly remembered, and with which he proposed to sacrifice the West Indian.
But they would not be still; and Flapperforthwith produced his pistol-case, and opened it, in order that the duel might take place on the spot.
The Possum wished to turn the matter off by saying, "I see the price of eggs has gone up again," but Bill gave him a punch on the snout that bent it like a carrot, and Sam caught the Wombat such a flip with his flapper that he gave in at once.
Sam shaded his eyes with his flapper and, seeing the Puddin' on the bench, started back dramatically.
