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He stood at a distance, with downcast looks, and appeared in such terrible embarrassment that his condition was sufficient to raise laughter or to cause pity, when Lady Chesterfield approaching, thus accosted him: "Confess," said she, "that you are in as foolish a situation as any man of sense can be: you wish you had not written to me: you are desirous of an answer: you hope for none: yet you equally wish for and dread it: I have, however, written you one."
He was invited with a party of officers to spend an afternoon with some young ladies in the neighbourhood, and they were on the way to keep their engagement, when Mr. Pellew stopped, and said to his companions, "We are doing a very foolish thing: I shall turn back, and I advise you all to do the same."
I remembered from my previous meeting with him that he had a foolish face, and was proud of the fact that for the ten years before he left the army he had played polo three days a week. "I don't suppose Mrs. Strickland wants to be bothered with me just now," I said. "Will you tell her how sorry I am? If there's anything I can do. I shall be delighted to do it." He took no notice of me.
"But," said Pierre, gently, at last, "but for your conscience, m'sieu', that is greater than law. For you are a good man and a wise man; and you know that I shall pay my debts of every kind some sure day. That should satisfy your justice, but you are merciful for the moment, and you will spare until the time be come, until the corn is ripe in the ear. Why should I plead? It is foolish.
She knew the battle was won, and it was very collectedly that she added the words, "Now, I have your promise, Jervis? You're not to do anything foolish " Then she saw she had made a mistake. "No, no!" she cried hastily; "I don't mean that I don't mean that a man who becomes a soldier in time of war is doing anything foolish! But I do think that you ought to wait just a few days.
Not for his sake, you understand he, I fear, deserves what he has suffered, what he is perhaps still suffering," a look of horror stole over his old, weather-roughened face "but for the sake of the foolish girl and for the sake of her family. You say it is a naval family?" "Yes," said Jacques de Wissant. "A noted naval family." The Admiral got up.
Nina, who was nothing if not expeditious, said that he had better go at once and see if he could get a ticket, but I stopped him by repeating that he could have mine. "It won't be used unless you take it," I added. Every one except Fred, who saw that something had happened, led me to believe that I was very disagreeable and foolish.
It is the girls themselves who spoil them and endure their inanity, because of that assumed look of superiority which to the eyes of the outside world would be a little offensive were it not a little foolish. But they do not marry often. Whether it be that the girls know better at last, or that they themselves do not see sufficiently clearly their future dinners, who can say?
So her troubled scrutiny was tempered with a measure of understanding. Roy had always attracted her. And now, unmothered the wound not yet healed she metaphorically gathered him to her heart; would have done so physically without hesitation; but that Vincent had his dear and foolish qualms about her promiscuous capacity for affection.
Sarah Austen had read Emerson in the woods, and her son's question sounded so like the unintelligible but unanswerable flashes with which the wife had on rare occasions opposed the husband's authority that Hilary Vane found his temper getting the best of him The name of Emerson was immutably fixed in his mind as the synonym for incomprehensible, foolish habits and beliefs.
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