He remained mute, while she, standing, continued: "And above all, my friend, do not believe that I have played the coquette with you.

by those wiles that bespoke the coquette How many a suitor was slain!

And in its tom-boy etiquette, Maid Mignonette, my Mignonette. When bare-feet lisp along the path, And boys and jays go whistling by, And girls and thrushes coyly cry Their fine joys through the aftermath Then laid ghosts know their amulet Which fickle siren mem'ry hath; So laughing comes that sad coquette, Comes Mignonette,my Mignonette.

" His confusion, which she attributed to bashfulness, encouraged the shameless coquette to add: "Maybe you liked me better as Bud?"

He has written a little comedy in the style of a "proverb;" andas every one who writes now constantly brings on the stage some real person or some actual facthe has introduced a coquette into it, and he reads it confidentially to a few ladies who are very kind to him.

The poets declared that Venus herself must have used them and that they spoke the language of love; thus one on the lip meant the 'coquette,' on the nose the 'impertinent,' on the cheek the 'gallant,' on the neck the 'scornful,' near the eye 'passionate,' on the forehead, such as this one I wear, sir, the 'majestic.'"

Italy was poor and little, she must needs coquette.

The picture represents the coquette at her window, laughing at Sheik Chenan as he is driving his pigs before her.

This, and this only, can remove the evil; for without it she, whom the charms of youth and beauty have enabled to act the coquette, will descend into the vale of life, altered, it is true, but not amended.

Why, indeed, you saucy innocent coquette!