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And I tell thee, sir, he has no training, not a bit; can't tell a pricksong from a bottle of hay; doesn't know a canon from a crocodile, or a fugue from a hole in the ground!" "Oh, fol-de-riddle de fol-de-rol! What has that to do with it? I tell thee, sir, the boy can sing." "And, sir, I say I know my place. Music does not grow like weeds." "And fa-la-las don't make a voice." "What! How?
I made up my mind that the only way to be sure that I was not missing the successful method was to try them all. So I put myself under this man's hand. He was a hypnotist. He felt able to restore speech with a hypnotic sleep and the proper hypnotic suggestion while I was in the trance. But like all the fake fol-de-rol with which I had come in contact, he did not even make an impression.
As for Peter he was the sort of person who could swiftly detect, understand and even sympathize with a point of view of this kind the while he must laugh at it and his mind be busy with some plan of making a fol-de-rol use of it.
All this, of course, was before I even saw the Judge, but I was getting my training, and learning how easy money could be made to come through a little fol-de-rol here and a bit of blackmail there, and introducing one class of society to another in the next place.
I wanted to find out and I made Ollie write me. They are queer people, these Northerners. They affect to despise good blood and good breeding and good manners. That's all fol-de-rol they love it. They are eternally talking of equality equality; one man as GOOD as another. When they say that one man is as GOOD as another, Richard, they mean that THEY are as good, never the other poor fellow."
My limited and abstractive art is to be found under every hedge and in every lane, and therefore nobody thinks it worth while picking up. My art flatters nobody by imitation: it courts nobody by smoothness: it tickles nobody by politeness: it is without either fol-de-rol or fiddle-de-dee. How can I hope to be popular?" Ruskin's attack on Whistler is another case in point.
This devotion to Louise may be 'puppy-love, after all, and " "Oh, Uncle!" came a chorus of protest. "What, you rascals! are you encouraging this desperate fol-de-rol?" "You are too severe, Uncle John," said Patsy, smiling. "The trouble with you is that you've never been in love yourself." "Never been in love!" He beamed upon the three girls with devotion written all over his round, jolly face.
Such fol-de-rol, her not coming for the summer; but I gave up arguing with young people about fifty years ago. Ellen ELLEN!" she cried in her shrill old voice, trying to bend forward far enough to catch a glimpse of the lawn beyond the verandah. There was no answer, and Mrs. Mingott rapped impatiently with her stick on the shiny floor.
"But, father, I said I wanted two." "Why, can't you make one do?" "No, I can't; I must have two." "Well, then, there's t'other; and here's a fol-de-rol for you to tie round your neck." So saying, he bolted for the door, and took himself off with all speed. It was much after this fashion that matters commonly went on in the brown house.
What the writer of the following letter expected of me I have no idea, nor did his letter enlighten me: "DEAR SER: "Wen I gave my name for a church member it was fer a peeples church, not a fol-de-rol solo and labour union church. "Drop my name." We had at our opening a solo by the finest singer in the city, and I had thanked the labour unions for their help. His name was dropped.
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