And then, "I suppose," said Miss Musgrave, absently, "you will be falling in love with her, just as you did with Anne Charteris and Aline Van Orden and all those other minxes.

"If I had been five minutes beforehand with the minx!"

" "Forward young minx!" commented Sir Beverley.

She's a capricious little minx, and, besides, she's engaged to Jimmy there, though heaven knows whether they'll ever get married.

He ran to tell his aunt: "How good she smells, that lady!" Mademoiselle Servien only muttered that great ladies were no better than others, and that she thought more of herself with her merino skirt than all those set-up minxes in their flounces and finery, adding: "Better a good name than a gilt girdle.

Of course he turns up again, but such a physical wreck that the minx whom he was to have married breaks off the engagement.

The minx, Bel Alison, is so scathingly drawn that from sheer perversity I found myself hunting for one good point in her character; but without a find.

This "fashionable lover" promises marriage to a vulgar, malicious city minx named Lucinda Bridgemore, but is saved from this pitfall also.

" "The independent little minx!

Anyway, you don't match the little Ponsonby and Chatfield minxes that your mother has chosen for her six Geisha girls, for you are a head taller than the bunch.

She develops into a most unscrupulous minx, and, although we are led to suppose that her defects of character were largely due to her origin, I am prepared to allot to Sir Henry and Lady Daring, who adopted her, their fair share in the blame.

A girl of the sweet type, endowed liberally with virtues, is produced as an antidote to the minx, but is no match for her.

It, anyhow, will prevent such good-for-nothing minxes as may have no more intelligence than to take you seriously, from putting on too many airs and graces around the images which you will make of me with my hair done so very unbecomingly.

The mind of the minx.

The mind of a minx.

The mind of a minx.

The mind of the minx.

Minxes of fifteen with merry roving eyes, women of all ages, all as beautifully dressed as it is possible to be, swinging along to the soda-water fountain shops where you can get candy and ice cream and lovely chocolates.

I'm just afraid some pretty minx" She laughed and added: "But I won't care if she's a rebel minx.

I'm just afraid some pretty minx" She laughed and added: "But I won't care if she's a rebel minx.

"She's a ve'y sweet little minx. . . .

I see it plainly, you minx, and I acquiesce because, it delights me to give you pleasure, even at the cost of some dignity.

And so often when you talked of poetry I have felt lonely and chilled and far away from you, and I have been half envious, dear, of your Heros and your Helens, and your other good-for-nothing Greek minxes.

Now, Mrs. Carroll, Mr. Grey's sister, had long since shown that she was not submissive enough, nor were the girls, the eldest of whom was a pert, ugly, well-grown minx, now about eighteen years old.

The funeral could not be postponed, even for Desmond; but he grew ill-humored at once, swore at Murphy, who was packing a waiter at the sideboard, for rattling the plates; called Ann a minx, because she laughed at him; and bit a cigar to pieces because he could not light it.