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"Blame silly. Might 'ave a bit more respec' for a man's nerves." Harrison Smith cursed him fluently as he led the way to a Ford car standing in the yard. "Lot of use to me you'd have been if the splits had got you. It's a big job we're tackling and I don't want it spoilt by dam-fool sneak thief tricks." Freddie Dirk apologised and explained his distaste for idleness.
The breach, as you know, between Betty and Boyce was wrapped in exasperating obscurity. "Yet, on the other hand," said I, "she might welcome evidence of his worthlessness, so as to justify her for having thrown him over." "If a woman isn't a dam-fool already," said Betty, "and I don't think I'm one, she doesn't like to feel that she ever made a dam-fool of herself.
"And then think of the peculiar history of this island and its situation as a converging-point for men of every race and every creed. All these things stimulate to rapid nervous discharges; that is, to inconsidered, foolish actions " "All fools!" the boatman interrupted. "All foreigners! We people don't do these things. Only dam-fool foreigners. That so, gentlemens.
"Put like that," he admitted, "why should they, indeed! Take 'em along if you like, Nephew." And of a sudden he laughed again. "Oh, Peter!" he gasped, "you dear dam-fool!" Peter had a strenuous afternoon. Reservations had to be secured for Emma, for whom he also purchased a long coat and a steamer rug.
Next morning they bring clothes to big one into house. Big one, when he wake up and see clothes lying there, with no friend inside, he very angry with servants and everybody else, and drink no more branty for three days. Dam-fool foreigners." "That's a tragedy, anyhow," said the bishop. "You are right. It is quite artistic that touch about bringing back the clothes, the empty shell, next morning.
I asked again, uncertain why I asked, but curious and insistent. "Sure!" said Maga. "Yes. Me I seen 'im. I keel 'im so with a knife las' night! You not believe?" Whether we believed or not, the news surprised us, and we waited in silence for an explanation. "You not believe? Why not? That dog! 'E make of me a dam-fool! 'E tell me about God.
When Dennis arrived panting for breath he couldn't believe his eyes. The Boy was holding the exhausted fawn in his lap with a glazed look in his eyes. "Well, of all the dam-fool things I ever see sence God made me, this takes the cake!" he cried in disgust. "Why didn't ye shoot him?" "Because he ran to me for help how could I shoot him?"
Our syndicate confined its operations to aliens dam-fool aliens.... 'J'ever know an English lord called Lundie ? Looks like a frame-food and soap advertisement. I imagine he was in your Supreme Court before he came into his lordship. 'He is a lawyer what we call a Law Lord a Judge of Appeal not a real hereditary lord.
Well, he would have it attended to, sometime; his life was valuable now. But he wasn't going to hurry about it, if a sound leg meant his being taken and ordered off to this dam-fool War. Nicky-Nan pursed up his lips as he worked, whistling to himself a cheerful, tuneless ditty. Some one tapped on the door. "Who's there?" "It's me," answered the voice of Mrs Penhaligon. "Can I come in?"
Nevertheless, he now ran that hand slowly through his hair and wiped his forehead. "That was one long five seconds most a week, I guess. Did you ever see such a plumb dam-fool break in your whole life?" he said, appealingly, to the crowd.
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