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Well, this widow was blessed with a son, who, like Goldsmith, and many other men distinguished in after life, was the dunce of his class. Numerous were the floggings which his stupidity brought upon him, and the road to knowledge was with him truly a "wale of tears." One day he came home, as usual, with red eyes and hands. "O, you blockhead!" screamed his mother, she was a bit of a virago, Mrs.
Wig ducked to wig, each blockhead had a brother, and there was a universal apotheosis of the mediocrity of our set. If the greatest happiness of the greatest number be the true theory, this was all that could be desired. Even Lessing at one time looked up to Hagedorn as the German Horace. If Hagedorn were pleased, what mattered it to Horace? Worse almost than this was the universal pedantry.
Then he related to Madame de Saint-Simon, in the midst of sobs, how he had stuck fast at the Parliament, without being able to utter a word, said that he should everywhere be regarded as an ass and a blockhead, and repeated the compliments he had received from Madame de Montauban, who, he said, had laughed at and insulted him, knowing well what had happened; then, infuriated against her to the last degree, he called her by all sots of names.
How long before this leg is done? Perhaps an hour, sir. Oh, Life. Here I am, proud as Greek god, and yet standing debtor to this blockhead for a bone to stand on! Cursed be that mortal inter-indebtedness which will not do away with ledgers. I would be free as air; and I'm down in the whole world's books. By heavens!
"Why, why, that would be worse than ever!" "I don't see that," objected Dick, stubbornly. "No one would know anything about it then." "But, you little blockhead, can't I make you understand? It wouldn't do at all. We should both of us be wrong then each with the other's personal appearance." "Well," said Dick blandly, "I shouldn't mind that." "But I should I mind very much.
Quince coughed several times, each cough being louder than the last, and then, treading softly, was about to return to the workshop when the girl stirred and muttered in her sleep. At first she was unintelligible, then he distinctly caught the words "idiot" and "blockhead." "She's dreaming of somebody," said Mr. Quince to himself with conviction. "Wonder who it is?"
A chill ran through his veins, when he thought of the full ones. What do you suppose he did? He pulled a worn-out knife blade from his belt, and began to scratch the earth around the well with it. "What are you doing?" asked the dragon. "I'm not a blockhead, that I should go to the labor of filling the skins with water," replied Stan. "But how will you carry the water to the house, then?" "How?
"To-day it is a superb wood, thanks to the women, and it has a curious name: it is called the Sins of the Cure. "Now I must say that the women of the mountain districts have the reputation of being light, lighter than in the plain. A bachelor who meets them owes them at least a kiss; and if he does not take more he is only a blockhead.
"Blockhead! what the deuce was the good of speaking about it when I was wrapped in flannels! I am never in love when I am ill who is? I am well now, or nearly so; and I've had things to vex me things to make this place very disagreeable; I shall go to town, and before this day week, perhaps, that charming face may enliven the solitude of Fernside. I shall look to it myself now.
A shoemaker was pounding riding-boots and women's shoes in motley confusion into a wooden chest with rope handles, while his wife, instead of helping him, tore her hair and shrieked: "I told you so, you fool, you simpleton, you blockhead! They'll come and rob us of everything."
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