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The Widow T.-B., odorous of cocktails, plowed through the intricacies of the latest dances, wallowing like a bluff-bowed tramp steamer, full to the hatches with a cargo of rum and sugar. Bert Hayman, fatuously inflamed with Lorelei's beauty, waged a bitter contest with the other men for her favor.
He was standing irresolutely on the steps when Jack came hack from the rose garden, whistling softly an old love-song and smiling fatuously to himself. "We're going to take that ride, after all," he announced gleefully. "Want to come along? She's going to ask her father to come, too says it would be terribly improper for us two to ride alone. What's the matter? Got the toothache?"
It is not half so wide as Lake Erie was fifty years ago, in relation to modern means of transportation and communication. People say, "Do we want to give up our traditional isolation?" They are too late in asking the question: that isolation is irrecoverably gone. That should be now evident even to people dwelling in fatuously fancied security between the Alleghenies and the Rockies.
She must do what she had to do; she must not ruin everything by imitating the people of the tenements with their fatal habit of living from day to day only, and taking no thought for the morrow except fatuously to hope and dream that all would be well. While she was fighting with herself, Ida had been talking on the same subject. When Susan heard again, Ida was saying: "Now, take me, for instance.
Ten turned up: his stake was gathered in. "You've had enough," Intelligence advised. "Perfectly true," P. Sybarite admitted. This time his anatomy proved quite docile. He found himself at the foot of the steps, fatuously smiling at the doorkeeper. "He ain't come in yet," said the latter; "but he's liable to be here any minute now." "Oh, yes," said P. Sybarite brightly, after a brief pause "Mr.
Miles resented feebly the perishing of the forlorn hope of a rescue, and muttered fatuously the cart had been put before the horse, and the reins taken out of the whip hand, and that'd never do. What could come of the unnatural process but a crashing spill? Diana could not accept the solution.
"Point out in a few well-chosen sentences how charming Mrs. Byng is . . ." "Mrs. Byng!" Reggie smiled fatuously. "I don't think I ever heard anything that sounded so indescribably ripping. That part'll be easy enough. Besides, the mater knows Alice." "Lady Caroline has seen me at the castle," said his bride doubtfully, "but I shouldn't say she knows me. She has hardly spoken a dozen words to me."
The tragic part of it was that he smiled and fumbled through life just as fatuously and apologetically as he did at the card-table. And behind the defensive smile and the well-worn expressions of regret there shone a scarcely believable but quite obvious self-satisfaction.
Although we had noted with interest the manner in which the extra weight of snow in other places was pressing down the surface of the original ice, and were even taking measurements of the effects thus produced, we remained fatuously blind to the risks our boats ran under such conditions.
He, who had shirked his duty, the work that won him his food and clothes and money to spend, he had blandly considered himself master of himself, master of his destiny! He had fatuously believed that, had belittled his work and thought it unworthy his time and thought and ability and he had let himself be hoodwinked and robbed in broad daylight!
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