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'He'll never forgive me! said Phoebe, her voice thick and shaking. 'It can never be the same again. I was a fool to come home. Eugénie withdrew her hand. Unconsciously, a touch of sternness showed itself in her bearing, her pale features. 'No, no! she said, with energy. 'You will comfort him, Mrs. Fenwick you will give him heart and hope again.
So effectually, indeed, did he retort on vice the mockery which had recently been directed against virtue, that, since his time, the open violation of decency has always been considered among us as the mark of a fool. And this revolution, the greatest and most salutary ever effected by any satirist, he accomplished, be it remembered, without writing one personal lampoon.
The girl caught the malignant note in his voice, and she leaned outward a little, trying to see his face, while she shivered with dread. "Yes," laughed Lawson; "a man can cash in without any excuse, usual; all he's got to do is to cross Deveny. You're a damned fool, Strom, to go to takin' a shine to Barbara Morgan, when Deveny wants her.
But it was no go! Old Paloma sided with the girl, and said if the girl went she went, too. Also, she called me more kinds of a fool than the English language has accommodation for. You'd like the Spanish lingo, Sarah, for expressing yourself in such ways, and you'd have liked old Paloma, too.
He is has been very near to me since I was a child, and I have promised to be his wife this long time." Her words were almost maddening to Williams, and he retorted as if he were, in truth, mad. "That country fellow? You shall never marry him! I swear it! He is a poor, supercilious fool and doesn't know it!
She felt that she could not say what she meant to say sitting down. "Fritz," she added, "you're a fool. You may be worse. I believe you are. But one thing's certain you're a fool. Even in wickedness you're a blunderer." "And what are you?" he said. "I!" she answered, coming a step nearer. "I'm not wicked."
He was a fool of a peculiar kind, though fools of all sorts are common enough. He married her a year later after robbing me, but I shall speak of that again.
Then why did you not stop to keep him till I came along, and we would have haled him to the stocks? That would have been sport and all. You call me fool but if you found a man covered with blood and hurts tied to a tree, and he daft and not able to speak, had you not cut him loose? Well, he's gone, and this alone is left of him, and he spun the piece into the air.
"Try that bone on another dog," said the landlord; "as if I did not know how many make five, and where my shoe pinches me; don't think to feed me with pap, for by God I am no fool.
What Polly liked was a nice young man, who would hold up his head and be true to her, and who would not make a fool of himself. If he could waltz into the bargain, that also would Polly like.
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