How long her innings were one has no means of guessing Sie must have been always hanging about, I should. think, but her type, though so definite, has not left, trail of memorable examples. The women whom the world remember do not seem to have been flirt They were saints and soldiers, queens, abbesses and courtesans, great mothers, great wits or great gallants—but always, If we remem= ber them, they were great—whiet certainly gives one pause. There'
unin, teo, of course—but she generous under her skin and not to be judged on one midnight foolery. The Cleopatra of the play, though canny enough at times, seemed to lose all her powers of ready reckoning when love and death were the dice she had to throw. It is improbable, one feels, that your true flirt is ever visi by immortal longings, or that she noble, in the high Roman fashion. with whom she flirts 'A solemn reflection with which to end an inconsequent theme! Bub inconsequent themes have bec Known to end solemnly—witnesa the sublime inconsequence "f Helen
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