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"Oh, I thought you said " "I meant our ball." "Oh!" said Mrs. Vanderpool in turn. "Oh!" Here a thought came. Of course, the colored people had their own ball; she remembered having heard about it. Why not send Zora? She plunged in: "Miss Wynn, I have a maid such an intelligent girl; I do wish she could attend your ball " seeing her blunder, she paused. Miss Wynn was coolly buttoning her glove.
"A cheerful wish," said Harry. "Uncle Cornie is a lively companion isn't he? He cant even blunder through a Joe Miller without tacking a moral to it, and then trying to persuade you that the joke of it depends on the moral." "Here he comes!" said Kate, as three distinct blows with the knob of his walking-stick announced the arrival of Uncle Cornelius. She ran to the door to open it.
But the point which we wish to notice at present, is the universal blunder about the Romans and Greeks. They, it is alleged, fought no duels; and occasion is thence taken to make very disadvantageous reflections upon us, the men of this Christian era, who, in defiance of our greater light, do fight duels.
Thus the adage, "If you want a thing well done you must do it yourself," has caused many a business and professional man to burden himself with details which in the long run he might better have intrusted to subordinates, even at the risk of an occasional blunder. It is not wise to specialize too much in the pursuit of the fad.
"Yes, sir; very good-looking, but rather snappy." Winter sighed. "That just shows how easy it is to blunder," he said. "I'm looking for a Polish Jewess, whose chief feature is her nose, and who wears big gold earrings." "Oh, Miss Garth is quite different," said the disappointed youth.
He did not stand up to take it and he knew too late that this was a blunder. He tingled with shame. Sheila went back to her chair and sipped from her own cup. "I've been angry with you for three months now, Dickie." "Yes'm," he said meekly. "That's the longest I've ever been angry with any one in my life. Once I hated a teacher for two weeks, and it almost killed me.
"He didn't mean nothing" Skinny interposed, sensing that Old Heck some way had made a blunder. "I guess you must be Carolyn June?" looking questioningly at the girl. "Excuse me," Old Heck said, "I'm your uncle, I suppose, and this is Skinny Rawlins " "Howdy-do; I'm glad to meet you," Skinny muttered, reaching for the hand Carolyn June frankly extended.
Webster was surprised and grieved, and bitterly resented this action. His biographer, Mr. Curtis, speaks of it as a blunder which rendered Mr. Webster's nomination hopeless. The truth is, that it was a most significant illustration of the utter futility of Mr. Webster's presidential aspirations.
I am persuaded that, had the subject been allowed to drop, it would have died a natural death, or at worst been considered as an historical blunder. But the partisans of Rhodes, the friends of Jameson, and personages connected with the leading financial powers did their best to keep the remembrance of the expedition which wrecked the political life of Rhodes fresh before the public.
He rejoined me in a far quieter mood, and for a moment or two I was silent with the terror of learning that he had become acquainted with my unhappy blunder. After a little pause, he said, 'I'm very sorry I didn't see Brotherton. I should have liked just a word or two with him. 'It's just as well not, I said. 'You would only have made another row. Didn't you see any of them?
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