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I couldn't do anything if there was a flood, or if the Indians came. I should have liked to go." All of which was very absurd and stupid, but I have known other boys think and talk in a similar way. I went to the fence, and stood leaning over it, feeling more out of humour than ever, and I hit viciously at a fly or two which settled upon me.
"Then let's go to Saturn," suggested Tom. "Oh, no!" said Righty. "Not that." "Then there's only one thing left," said Tom, with a sigh, "and that's the long jump whatever that is." Tom's three companions roared with laughter. "Absurd!" cried Righty. "The idea. The long jump the only thing left! Ha, ha, ha!" "Perfect nonsense," laughed Lefty. "I never thought Dozy Pate could be so dull."
But the stern looks softened to a smile as he recognised his son, and he spoke hurriedly: "Don't stop me, my boy; I'm not fit to talk to you now. Oh, absurd!" "Is anything the matter, father?" said Frank anxiously, as he laid his hand on his father's arm. "Matter? Oh, nothing, boy. Just a trifle put out. The rooms are very hot. There, I must go. Don't forget to-night, you and young Forbes."
This man, who had been compelled to conceal himself during the first Restoration, knew only too well, that the returned emigres had learned nothing and forgotten nothing. The Duc de Sairmeuse was no exception to the rule. He thought, and nothing could be more sadly absurd, that a mere act of authority would suffice to suppress forever all the events of the Revolution and of the empire.
The members of the English legation were among the guests invited. To me it was a delightful visit. I had again every reason to feel gratefully sensible of the Princess's condescending kindness. Meeting the secretary one day in the library, I said that I thought her a perfect creature. Was this an absurd remark to make? I could see nothing absurd in it and yet my friend burst out laughing.
There are, however, exceptions to most rules some misguided savant of a bygone epoch formulated a maxim which says that "the exception proves the rule," obviously an absurd statement, for if one man has no nose on his face it is no proof that all other men have noses on theirs.
Peter, of course, was a Roman Catholic, and, though he was as true as steel, it could not but be felt that in this absurd contest he was on the side of the "young masther." Down in the kitchen the conversion of the "young masther" to the true religion was a great affair, and Mr.
But I was somewhat impressed by the strange silence which had settled upon my fellow-travellers and the inscrutable look upon the officer's face. Something serious was evidently amiss. I turned to the officer. "The accusation is absurd. Why! Look at the windows! They have been kept closed all the time according to the military orders.
And now that the providential occurrence was apparently close at hand, it would have been sheer absurdity to think that the supply would be short of the need: as absurd as a faith that believed in half a miracle for want of strength to believe in a whole one.
"I laugh," said I, "because I see how absurd it was to fancy that you loved me. A bridge between us! If you loved me as I love you, our love would turn water into land, melt mountains into plains: we would cross dry-shod to one another." "Do you love me so?" he said, his blue eyes gleaming, and making a step toward me.
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