# The Flirt Author: Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 Genre: Category: Romance Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/297 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Flirt+Tarkington&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary Valentine Corliss walked up Corliss Street the hottest afternoon of that hot August, a year ago, wearing a suit of white serge which attracted a little attention from those observers who were able to observe anything except the heat. The coat was shaped delicately; it outlined the wearer, and, fitting him as women's clothes fit women, suggested an effeminacy not an attribute of the tall Corliss. The effeminacy belonged all to the tailor, an artist plying far from Corliss Street, for the coat would have encountered a hundred of its fellows at Trouville or Ostende this very day. Corliss Street is the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, the Park Lane, the Fifth Avenue, of Capitol City, that smoky il... ## Chapters - [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flirt-297/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flirt-297/chapters/15/index.md) - [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flirt-297/chapters/13/index.md) - [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flirt-297/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flirt-297/chapters/16/index.md) - [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flirt-297/chapters/12/index.md) - [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flirt-297/chapters/19/index.md) - [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flirt-297/chapters/21/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flirt-297/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flirt-297/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flirt-297/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flirt-297/chapters/22/index.md) - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flirt-297/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flirt-297/chapters/10/index.md) - [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flirt-297/chapters/23/index.md) - [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flirt-297/chapters/14/index.md) - [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flirt-297/chapters/11/index.md) - [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flirt-297/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flirt-297/chapters/26/index.md) - [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flirt-297/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flirt-297/chapters/20/index.md) - [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flirt-297/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flirt-297/chapters/17/index.md) - [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flirt-297/chapters/24/index.md) - [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flirt-297/chapters/25/index.md) - [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flirt-297/chapters/18/index.md)