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He has a sister, you say? I quickly reassured him, telling him such was no one's desire, and saying I would come to the point in a moment, only there was one thing more which had interested me greatly, as revealing how a brain in such a condition will befool itself, all but generating two individualities.
"Aye, but where's your proof the 'Faithful Friend' is blown up " "And by your hand, like as not." "True again, so it was, Martin, and thereby did I outwit Tressady and saved the lives of my own people." "You have been at great pains to befool me to your evil ends." "At no pains, Martin, 'twas purely simple matter!" "You have been the death of divers men on this island."
His sister toiled and moiled all she could, but it helped little; so at last she told him how silly it was to do naught for the house. "What shall we have to live on when you have wasted everything?" she said. "Oh, I'll go out and befool somebody," said Peik. "Yes, Peik, I'll be bound you'll do that soon enough," said the sister. "Well, I'll try," said Peik. At last they had indeed nothing more.
You had my letter?" "Pshaw! Hippolyte, you can't befool me." "Why this tone? I tell you I have done everything." "You may think so, but in the meantime Rupert has stolen a march on me. He has got the papers " "Impossible!" "It is so. Got them, and placed them, with a full statement, in Lord Essendine's hands." "How do you know this?" "From Lord Essendine's own lips?" "How can he have done this?
The listeners exult with them in their discoveries, and roar at each triumph of the sort: it is apparently a proof of brilliant intuition when a speaker seizes upon some forgotten point in the honored guest's character or career and drenches it with drawn butter. To what good end do men so flatter and befool one of their harmless fellows?
In the one case, the future is conceived as the Psalmist's awaking, and losing all the vain show of this dreamland of life, while he is at rest in beholding the appearance, and perhaps in receiving the likeness, of the one enduring Substance, God. In the other, it is thought of as God's awaking, and putting to shame the fleeting shadow of well-being with which godless men befool themselves.
Just for a moment or two he was speechless with indignation. "You charlatan," he said, hoarsely. "You barefaced trickster." Bell started back. His mute question stung Littimer to the quick. "You wanted to be cleared," the latter said. "You wanted to befool me again.
Yet no man of us may apply the word to him. Not one of us is a match for him. We're not in the same class. In his keen subtlety and cunning he can outmatch the keenest of us; outwit and befool without doing any extra thinking. I am not using the word wisdom of him. We are safe only in the wisdom of our big Brother who drew his fangs in the wilderness that day.
"And yet he let men befool him and make a pope of him," said Ganganelli. "Ah, Lorenzo, they were indeed good purposes that decided me, and good and holy resolutions were in me when I bore this crown of St. Peter for the first time. Ah, I was then so young, not in years, but in hopes and illusions.
Our departure from Radicofani was most dreary, except that we were very glad to get away; but, the cold discomfort of dressing in a chill bedroom by candlelight, and our uncertain wandering through the immense hotel with a dim taper in search of the breakfast-room, and our poor breakfast of eggs, Italian bread, and coffee, all these things made me wish that people were created with roots like trees, so they could not befool themselves with wandering about.
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