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Only do look where you're walking, won't you, when we're on a path like this? Now we can go on." "Why, you little duffer, you're as white as a ghost!" I exclaimed. "If the stone had slipped I should have jumped back. The path isn't really so narrow. It only gives that effect because it's steep, and hangs over the edge of a precipice. Still, many thanks for your solicitude."
Then he said to himself that if Hetty had not turned out so badly he would have asked her to make tea very often in his nice house among his flowers. But, of course, he could not ask a tell-tale duffer of a girl to do anything for him. He set to work to plan his beds, and one afternoon was busy marking off spaces with wooden pegs and a long line of cord.
Can't you see that unless our strength is in ourselves we'll never stand? That's what I'm trying to do and I know how hard it is." "You? You're not a drunkard, Marcella," he said. She smiled a little as she looked at him. "You know, Louis, you're an awful duffer!" she said, and turned away.
He could not concentrate his mind; his enthusiasm and his ideas had alike deserted him. He flung down the dividers he had been using and pushed away the nest of saucers of Indian ink and colours in a fit of petulance. "It's no good," he exclaimed aloud; "I feel a perfect duffer this morning. I couldn't even design a decent dog-kennel!"
Generally, it hung, folded up, close to the window, and the Duffer said that it would come in handy when he took to shaving. John's eye rested on this mirror, vacantly at first, then with gathering intensity. Presently he got up, crossed the room, opened the two folding panels, and examined himself attentively, pursing up his lips and frowning.
"I'll talk to Maudie," said he, "but he's an onery kid; has been ever since his mother died. He don't git along with his stepma very well, and she's got such a lot of little kids of 'er own she ain't time to train no hulk of a boy like Maudlin." Pausing a moment, he went on, "Maudlin's been madder'n hell because that duffer King's been haulin' Jinnie's wood. He says "
"Oh, you NICE donkeys!" said the recipient of these varied gifts, lying back and investigating the chocolates. A sound at the window made her look up, and Jim's laughing face peeped round the curtain. "Like 'em?" "They're lovely," said Norah, fervently. "Come in, Jimmy, you old duffer. Merry Christmas!" Jim came in, immensely tall and lean in his pyjamas, and sat down on the bed.
When he went down to breakfast his boots shone, and his fresh paper collar was neatly arranged; altogether he was not the boy to whom I first introduced you. I am not sure that Policeman Duffer would have recognized him. A collar and a necktie make a great difference in some people's personal appearance. Dirk wondered a little as to where the box of paper collars came from.
They have enough to do as it is poor fellows they hardly get a night's rest. Miss Betsey's home has already given 'em a lot o' trouble." His humor had relieved its pressure in the deep, good-natured chuckle of the Yankee, as he strode up an' down the floor with both hands in his trousers pockets. "Look at that ol' duffer," he went on, as he pointed at the stern features of grandpa Smead.
"So Dinah and I were saying," remarked Elizabeth, as they paced slowly down the terrace. "Why were you so silent?" she continued; "you know a good deal about these subjects too." "Who? I! My dear Miss Elizabeth, you are quite mistaken. Ask the vicar, and he will tell you that I am really a duffer in these matters.
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