"Not its flippancy, father," said Mary, quickly, fearing that her mother would be displeased.
Miss Waterford, torn between the aestheticism of her early youth, when she used to go to parties in sage green, holding a daffodil, and the flippancy of her maturer years, which tended to high heels and Paris frocks, wore a new hat.
She had to take refuge in a pretended flippancy.
" "Young man," said the caliph, ignoring the flippancy of the hat cleaner, "I observe that you are of a studious disposition.
