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I know now what he used to mean when he'd say, 'A man's a fool to put whisky in him when he's facin' a tight squeeze! The little devil sure needed everything he had nerve and head and muscle and all for the job he tackled last night!"
He has just told me he is hard up and that he wants the money before the week is over. He can't be hard up because he has won from everybody; but of course I had to tell him that I would pay him. Can you help me? Of course I know that I have been a fool. Percival knows what he is about and plays regularly for money. When I began I didn't think that I could lose above twenty or thirty pounds.
For a few moments she sat thus silent, growing more and more uncomfortable. But just ere the silent became unendurable, a thought appeared in the void. "What a fool I am!" she said again to herself. "I am like little Mark when he cried because he had only a shilling and saw a boy spend a penny on a lovely spotted horse!
Once the state president of the conservative suffrage forces in Ohio with whom I had worked the previous year wrote me a letter pointing out what madness it was to talk of winning the amendment in Congress "this session," and adding that "nobody but a fool would ever think of it, let alone speak of it publicly."
If this man she loved was not for her, at least no other woman should scorn him. She drew herself up in her full-bosomed magnificence. "Instead of telling him not to touch you, you little fool, you ought to fall at his feet. For what he has done for you, you ought to steal the wide world and give it to him. And you refuse your footling little insignificant self.
At daylight she drove her cows back to the marsh without having barely touched her soup. Far across the bay glistened the roof of a barn under construction. An object the size of a beetle was crawling over the new boards. It was Jean. "I'm a fool," he thought, as he drove in a nail. Then he fell to thinking of a girl in his own village whose father was as rich as the Père Bourron.
She had the shameless courage to bring him beneath her husband's roof, and seat him at my fireside, between my sons; and I, confiding fool that I was, welcomed the villain, and lent him money." Nothing could equal the pain of wounded pride and mortification which he suffered at the thought that Raoul and Mme. Fauvel had amused themselves with his good-natured credulity and obtuseness.
"Coulter doesn't know anything about Merriwell's batting, and so he is liable to make a break at any moment." This proved right, for Coulter tried to fool Frank with an outcurve on the next delivery. He started the ball exactly as he had the one before it, to all appearances as if he meant to send another straight one over the inside corner.
"Nor I either; I am getting stupid. Let's have another little glass-shall we? just to clear our memories!" The expedient was not crowned with success, the memories failed to recover themselves. The crowd waited, attentive, as may be supposed. Suddenly the hawker exclaimed: "What a fool I am! I am going to find that, if only I have still got it."
"She's got brown eyes and blond hair, and that looks like mixed blood," he reminded himself suddenly, after he had sat for a long while staring down at the house. "How do I know her folks aren't Spanish or something? How do I know anything about her? I just swallowed what she handed out like a damn' fool!"
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