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If I go on fooling in this way I'm bound to have a thundering accident!... "Where's Maydig? "What a confounded mess everything's in!" He looked about him so far as his flapping jacket would permit. The appearance of things was really extremely strange. "The sky's all right anyhow," said Mr. Fotheringay. "And that's about all that is all right.
The party finally reached the theatre and saw a "sex" play, which caused a furious discussion among the women. "No woman would have done that." "The man was not worth the sacrifice," etc. And Fosdick gloomily remarked in Isabelle's ears: "Rot like this is all you see on the modern stage. And it's because women want it, they must forever be fooling with sex. Why don't they "
He bowed ironically in Claude's direction. "The gentleman passes beyond the jurisdiction of the court," he said. "She will have none of him, it seems; nor we either! He is dismissed." Claude, his eyes burning, shrugged his shoulders and did not budge. If they thought to rid themselves of him by this fooling they would learn their mistake. They wished him to go: the greater reason he should stay.
"Now all this time Old Mother Nature had been watching Mr. Turtle, and it pleased her to see that he was smart enough to think of such a clever way of fooling his enemies. So she began to study how she could help Mr. Turtle. One day she came up behind him just as he sat down to rest.
In fact, Wright evinced nothing that would lead one to think he had any respect for Steele as a man or as a Ranger. "Steele, that was the second break of yours last night," he said finally. "If you come fooling round the ranch again there'll be hell!" It seemed strange that a man who had lived west of the Pecos for ten years could not see in Steele something which forbade that kind of talk.
"Zis I cannot bear!" he said, shrugging his shoulders. "To be called ze Hun! Ugh!" "They're only kidding you," said Tom; "fooling with you." "I do not like it no!" "But if you hadn't become an American before the war," said Tom, "you couldn't have enlisted on our side because you really were a German a German citizen weren't you?" "Subject, yess! Citizen, no! All will be changed.
"Do you mean to say these people have been fooling me? I don't believe it," said I. "There's one that can't talk English, and I'll make a bet on it." I indicated a passing brave with an eagle-feather head-dress which reached far down his naked legs. He was a magnificent animal; he was young and lithe, and as tall and straight as a sapling. "I've tried him twice, and he simply doesn't understand."
The mother had been watching the little scene, and May had a comfortable assurance that that wealth of soldi would presently be restored to its legitimate function in the scheme of things. She turned from her pretty fooling, and Kenwick promptly remarked: "Are you aware that you have sown the seeds of mendicancy in the soul of that innocent child?"
I had but one fixed idea the idea which a wolf may have on a like occasion. At last, as my only answer to all her entreaties was, "Do you love me, or are you fooling me?" she saw what a brute she had to deal with, and, making up her mind accordingly, she came towards me, threw her arms round my neck, hid her face in my bosom, and let me kiss her hair.
"Why can't we go ashore in that?" asked Amy, her face brightening. "Because it will be so humpy!" explained Betty. "We could not run the auto ice boat over the bumps. But really it might be worse; I'm not fooling." Their situation was indeed peculiarly fortunate considering what had happened. The warm weather had softened the ice, and the melting of much snow had caused the river to rise.
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