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To her such betrayal betokened "foolishness," and so all she said was, "There's no need to make a fuss! I only turned over a little queer. I never was right off, Daisy." Pettishly she pushed away the glass in which Bunting had hurriedly poured a little brandy. "I wouldn't touch such stuff no, not if I was dying!" she exclaimed.

"I've got something here in my pocket that'd interest you a heap, Jim. But I ain't able to prove it all, so it can wait for a spell. But if it leads in the direction I think it does, the Lord pity you!" "I'd advise you to hold your tongue, as it might get you into trouble. If you will drop all that foolishness about getting even with me for imaginary wrongs, we shall be able to talk business.

I had to tell her I had not thought it. "No," she answered; "I had got you into this by my foolishness; I must needs try to get you out by my wits. Brie, the one who took you by the throat there has been bad blood between him and your lord this twelvemonth; only last May M. le Comte ran him through the wrist.

I hear folks talkin' about how wicked the world's growin' and wishin' they could go back to the old times, but it looks like to me there's jest as much kindness and goodness in folks nowadays as there was when I was young; and as for keepin' Sunday, why, I've noticed all my life that the folks that's strictest about that ain't always the best Christians, and I reckon there's been more foolishness preached and talked about keepin' the Sabbath day holy than about any other one thing.

I ain't got smallpox." Reluctantly Davis fell in beside him. "All right. Cut it short. I've got to see a man." "He'll have to wait." Curly could not help chuckling to himself at the evident embarrassment of the other. The impish impulse to "devil" him had its way. "You're a man of experience, Slats. Ever hold up a train?" The foreman showed plainly his disgust at this foolishness.

As soon as Captain Ford had his glass before him and his cheroot lighted, Almayer asked for the explanation of his daughter's unexpected arrival. Ford said little beyond generalising in vague but violent terms upon the foolishness of women in general, and of Mrs. Vinck in particular.

I says, 'Say now, Bud, it would take about a month of travel to get out West, an' if the Injuns didn't want nothin' but our scalps that wouldn't be no fun, an' Da ain't really so bad, coz we sho'ly did starve them pigs so one of 'em died. I reckon we deserved all we got anyhow, it was all dumb foolishness about skinnin' out, though I'd like mighty well to be a hunter. Well, Bud died that winter.

He has taken a very much inferior post at a very inferior place. A restaurant of a different class altogether not at all comme il faut; a little place for the multitude Giatron's, in Soho. The foolishness of it for all his old clients must be useless! No one would eat in such a hole. It is most mysterious!" We dined well and gayly. Mr.

The bewildering and confusing fact, turning all the contrivances of her judges into foolishness, was, that she had nothing to confess that she was not ready to tell in the eye of day.

Hardly any one who saw that slip of a girl and that square-shouldered boy with his unlined face would have imagined that they could be anything but brother and sister. The marriage of babies! Was there no single apostle of common sense in all the country a country so gloriously free that it granted licenses to every foolishness without a qualm? Palgrave was standing on the curb, scowling.