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Preachers and moralists are always having hits at it, and in that philosophical study and scientific vivisection of character which two friends are always so ready to practice at the expense of a third, and which weak-minded people confound with scandal, to no foible is the knife so pitilessly applied as to vanity.
"Why, are you setting up as a dog-fancier in your old age, colonel?" This was too much for the colonel. He exploded. "Old age! Confound your impudence! Dog-fancier! No, sir! I have not become a dog-fancier in what you are pleased to call my old age!
He could fight no more, willing and mentally able though he was to confound his enemies again. He must leave it to others to defend his fame and good name in the future. The last letter which was copied into his letter-press book was written on March 14, not three weeks before the last summons came to him, and it refers to his old enemy who thus pursued him even to the brink of the grave.
He did not respect her as he respected Gyp; she did not touch him as Gyp touched him, was not no, not half so deeply attractive; but she had confound her! the power of turning his head at moments, a queer burning, skin-deep fascination, and, above all, that most dangerous quality in a woman the lure of an imperious vitality. In love with life, she made him feel that he was letting things slip by.
But I must hear myself from Caroline, or nothing will satisfy me; as yet I have not her direction, and so bad is my memory now, that this morning I could not even be sure if Stackpoole Court was near Milford Haven, Liverpool, or Milbourn Port. I do not comprehend how I could confound these three places, or be so depaise in regard to the geography of this island. Of Queensberry.
It is as unpardonable to confound the two as it is to confound sensations with things imaginary. We may not, therefore, say that "things" are groups of sensations. We may, if we please, describe them as complexes of qualities. And we may not say that the "things" we perceive are really "inside" of us and are merely "projected outside." What can "inside" and "outside" mean? Only this.
But the red-headed Cloherty was crosser than any of them, and what the devil was it to him what Larry's politics or his matrimonial intentions were? Confound Cloherty, anyway! He was a sufficiently common object of the Cluhir scene and infernally common at that. Hardly a day that you didn't meet him loafing about the town. Larry hadn't the smallest wish to talk to Cloherty.
"Of course, your highness," said Baldos, deep apology in his voice, "Ravone is woefully misinformed. He is honest in his belief, and you should not misjudge his motives. How he could have been so blind as to confound you with that frisky American girl but I beg your pardon. She is to be your guest. A thousand pardons, your highness."
"Confound me, sir, do you mean you have been a spy on me?" says the other hotly. "A spy! You made little disguise of the matter, Mr. Warrington, and her ladyship wasn't a much better hand at deceiving. You were always together. "Gracious powers! What did you see, Sampson?" cries the lad. "Nay, sir, 'tis forbidden to kiss and tell. I say so again," says the chaplain. The young man turned very red.
You can bet high on that." "You will, and I'll bet higher. YOU write no more stories! You! Why, confound you, you couldn't help it if you tried. You needn't write another 'Black Brig' unless you want to. You needn't you mustn't write anything UNTIL you want to.
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