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"Take your hands from me," she ordered. "Do you think I'm going to give you up now now, after I've won you because of a damfool scruple in your pretty head? You don't know me. It's too late. I love you and I'm going to protect both of us from your prudishness." His arms closed on her and he crushed her to him, looking down hungrily into the dark, little face.
The wrong doer is neither the principal nor I. If Porcupine incited them, then it would be enough to get rid of the students and Porcupine. Where in thunder would be a peach of damfool who always swipes other people's faults and says "these are mine?" It was a stunt made possible only by Badger. Having made such an illogical statement, he glanced at the teachers in a highly pleased manner.
One of the officials stood on a barrel holding the box, while a clerk with a list of names sat below. "As I call the names, will each gentleman step forward and draw his slip?" announced the official. We were all watching with our mouths open intensely interested. "Did you ever hear of such a damfool way of doing the thing?" said Talbot. "Here, give me a boost up!"
Countermand the order for cake, send a wire putting off the wedding, dismiss the bridesmaids, tell the organist he can stop practising "The Voice that Breathed O'er Eden" no wedding-bells for you! For Dudley Damfool Pickering, Esquire, the lonely hearth for evermore! Little feet pattering about the house? Not on your life! Childish voices sticking up the old man for half a dollar to buy candy?
"No," said I. "What did I tell you?" said Sir Anthony. I held up my glass of port to the light and looked through it. "A lot of damfoolishness, my dear old friend," said I. He grew angry. A man doesn't like to be coldly called a damfool at his own table. He rose on his spurs, in his little red bantam way. Was I too much of an idiot to see the connection?
As my lawyer friend says, everybody's got to make a good living, and good livings can't be made on the ways that used to be called on the level they're called damfool ways now." Ida's third source of income was to her the most attractive because it had such a large gambling element in it.
"Where the devil is Allen?" my client demanded excitedly of the Fraction. "Allen?" repeated that gentleman, "why, we made him comfortable and left him, of course. We had sense enough not to bring him here to be pulled." "But, you damfool," cried Mr. Cooke, slightly forgetting himself, "Drew has escaped." "Escaped?" "Yes, escaped," said Mr.
"What is he saying, Jerry?" said Cameron after they had listened for some minutes. "Oh he beeg damfool!" said Jerry, whose vocabulary had been learned mostly by association with freighters and the Police. "He tell 'bout beeg meeting, beeg man Louis Riel mak' beeg noise. Bah! Beeg damfool!" The whole scene had lost for Jerry its mystic impressiveness and had become contemptibly commonplace.
"Where the devil is Allen?" my client demanded excitedly of the Fraction. "Allen?" repeated that gentleman, "why, we made him comfortable and left him, of course. We had sense enough not to bring him here to be pulled." "But, you damfool," cried Mr. Cooke, slightly forgetting himself, "Drew has escaped." "Escaped?" "Yes, escaped," said Mr.
He surveyed the five-dollar bill and chuckled. "Tyee man hyas damfool!" said he. He cast a shrewd eye at the sun, which stood near the meridian. "Sitkum sun!" he announced. "Noon and that means you're hungry," said Sandy. "I never saw you when you weren't. Go on up to the house, and say I sent you. Muckamuck mika sick yakwahtin. Eat till your belly goes back on you, if you want to."
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