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It had certainly been a desperate remedy one to which she would never have given her consent could she for a single instant have suspected that it had been dictated by anything more than a friendly desire for her welfare. Surely, argued her practical mind, he could never have been so foolish as to let himself care deeply for one who so obviously had only the most casual regard for him!
I have never dared to lecture him on the subject of his expense and extravagance; in the first place, because I am at least as foolish as he is; and then for other reasons; but you on the contrary could " Madame de Lucenay did not finish; suddenly she heard the voice of Florestan de Saint Remy. He entered precipitately into the cabinet adjoining the saloon.
It was foolish, perhaps a woman's vagrant fancy but she wished he had mounted with her. It was noon in the desert. The voice of the Mueddin died away on the minaret, and the golden silence that comes out of the heart of the sun sank down once more softly over everything. Nature seemed unnaturally still in the heat.
It was a curious feeling, and all to come out of a foolish song; but if ever she felt thankful to God from the bottom of her heart that she had said "No," at once and decisively, to the good man who slept at peace beneath the church-yard elms, it was at that moment. But the feeling and the moment passed by immediately. Mr.
And I see Viola look at him, taking in his figure in its motor-dress, and his face, with the foolish, weak elation he couldn't for the life of him keep out of it. Again I see him, with his little dreadful air of fervid solemnity and I don't know whether I dreamed it or whether it was really there very spruce and strutting about the lawns of Amerley Park at that garden-party they took us to.
Polly Osgood, here we are sitting around and I'm telling you foolish stories about myself, when we ought to be discussing library matters." "The other was more interesting," sighed Polly. "I'm going to give up slang myself soon. I never did chew gum!
"Oh, no; he has seen no visitor since Captain Wegg died." "Well, good-bye, Ethel. See you at the farm in the mornin'." The girl sat for a long time after McNutt had driven away, seemingly lost in revery. "Poor Joe!" she sighed, at last. "Poor, foolish Joe. I wonder what has become of him?"
Now don't you boys be so foolish as to get yersels into trouble on my account. All ye've got to do is to look on, an' ye'll larn somethin'. If I've no youth an' beauty, like Colly, to bring me good luck, I've age and experience, and I'll get it by schamin'."
When I was less foolish and more composed, my darling took her wedding-ring from her bosom, and kissed it, and put it on. Then I remembered last night and told Richard that ever since her marriage she had worn it at night when there was no one to see. Then Ada blushingly asked me how did I know that, my dear.
He was, at present, quite content with general admiration: there was, or there seemed, at this time, more danger for his head than his heart more danger that his head should be turned with the foolish attentions paid him by many silly girls, than that he should be a dupe to a passion for any one of them: there was imminent danger of his becoming a mere dancing, driving, country coxcomb.
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