Word: flirtings
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...beautiful young wife of an old, countrified Prince receives a copy of a rather gallant book of love with a letter from the Empress Catherine, announcing she intends to pay an unceremonious visit. A handsome young guardsman arrives as the Empress's vanguard and immediately begins to flirt with the girl Princess, whose imagination is stirred by the golden book. The husband intervenes, and a grotesque duel is cut short by the appearance of the Empress with one lady-in-waiting. The husband finds the latter's middle-aged charms so much more to his taste than those...
...stories published for some time in any college dream type; taking advantage of the form to blend richly poetical prose with a delicate sympathy for a child's fantasies. "Fools" is better than its abrupt title might lead one to expect. It is a realistic tale of a country flirt and her two admirers--one of them the village idiot. The climax is a really admirable touch of cynicism...
...Deschamps first reviewed the works of Paul Hervieu and analyzed the spirit and motive of the work. Hervieu, in his "Flirt," in "Peints par euxmemes," "L' Armature," "Les Tenailles," and "La Loi de Phmme," has taken his stand as the defender and the champion of the rights of modern woman. He has voluntarily circumscribed the field of his observations to society, the sphere in which woman finds opportunity to show her grace and charm, and to exercise her supremacy. Society life is the life in which he lives in thought, and it is the subject with which he prefers...
...Moliere. It was written by order of Louis XIV, and first played on January 29, 1664 in the palace of the Louvre. The essence of the plot is that Sganarelle, who is in love with Dorimene and is about to marry her, suddenly learns that she is a flirt and marries him only for his money, expecting that he will soon die. He tries to break off the match, but when it ultimately comes either to fighting a duel or marrying, he prefers the latter. In the course of the play are amusing scenes with gypsies, wizzards, and between...
...Ethel and Grace," however, is unsuccessful. Two childish students and a flirt don't make a pretty combination in themselves, and when they are introduced into a story with a common-place plot, and written carelessly, they have no excuse for existence. The author of "Ethel and Grace" can do much better work...