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"It is provoking," answered Kenelm; "but then Love is the most dunderheaded of all the passions; it never will listen to reason. The very rudiments of logic are unknown to it. 'Love has no wherefore, says one of those Latin poets who wrote love-verses called elegies, a name which we moderns appropriate to funeral dirges.
"Ah, don't make fun of Rudolph!" she cried, quickly. "Rudolph can't help it if he is conscientious and in consequence rather depressing to live with. And for all that he so often plays the jackass-fool about women, like Grandma Pendomer, he is a man, Jack a well-meaning, clean and dunderheaded man!
The murderer had been actuated by a motive. What was that motive? Surely, in a place like Steynholme no man could come and go without being seen, and the murderer must be a stranger to the district, because it was ridiculous to imagine that he was one of the residents. Yet that was exactly what a dunderheaded policeman believed.
"It is provoking," answered Kenelm; "but then Love is the most dunderheaded of all the passions; it never will listen to reason. The very rudiments of logic are unknown to it. 'Love has no wherefore, says one of those Latin poets who wrote love-verses called elegies, a name which we moderns appropriate to funeral dirges.
Tibbets, seizing the hand and pressing it to the heart he had thus defended from the suspicion of being pumice, "yes, that I should have trusted that dunderheaded, rascally curmudgeon Peck; that I should have let him call it 'The Capitalist, despite all my convictions, when the Anti " "Pshaw!" interrupted my father, drawing away his hand.
"From Dublin," said Sir Lucius, "she came on here. The police sergeant " "Who's a dunderheaded fool," said Lord Torrington. "He says there's a young lady going about the bay for the last two days in a boat." "That's the wrong tack altogether," said Lord Torrington. "Isabel would never think of going in a boat. I tell you she can't row."
And I had hoped ah, well, after all, we cannot utterly defy society! Its prejudices, however unfounded, must be respected. What would you have? This dunderheaded giantess of a Mrs. Grundy condemns me to be miserable, and I am powerless. The utmost I can do is to refrain from whining over the unavoidable.
"Crowder, you puff me up," murmured Uncle Issy, charmed with this imaginative and wholly flattering sketch. "No really now! Though, indeed, strange words have gone abroad before now, touching my wisdom; but I blow no trumpet." "Such be your very words," the crowder insisted. "Now mark my answer. 'Uncle Issy, says I, quick as thought, 'you dunderheaded old antic, leave that to the musicianers.
Thereupon began a childish battle for the last word. Kate calmly arose, picked up her plate, walked from the room, down the hall, and entering her own room, closed the door quietly. "You fool! You great big dunderheaded fool!" cried Mrs. Holt. "Now you have done it, for the thousandth time. She will start out in less than no time to find some place else to stay, an' who could blame her?
"Why, you don't imagine that he would go so far as to shoot himself just to avert suspicion," I asked, still incredulous. Forrest drew himself up smartly. "Good Lord! What a fool I am! What a blind dunderheaded jackass!" he cried. "What's the matter now?" I inquired smiling, for the detective was groping in his pockets. "Have you lost anything?"
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