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"He was one of the few fools who aren't willing to learn and yet you cannot blame him altogether," said Langdon. "Four or five years ago I wouldn't have believed it, Bruce. I couldn't actually believe it until we dug out those cubs up the Athabasca one weighed eleven ounces and the other nine. You remember?" "An' they were a week old, Jimmy. An' the mother weighed eight hundred pounds."
Barclay fancied that a complacent smile wreathed Brownwell's face at the prospect of going to the Culpeppers', and the next instant the man was saying: "Charming young lady, Miss Molly! Ah, the ladies, the ladies they will make fools of us. We can't resist them." He shrugged and smirked and wiggled his fingers and played with his mustaches. "Wine and women and song, you know they get us all.
'Friendship! said Arbaces, vehemently. 'No; that is a word too often profaned to apply to a sentiment so sacred. Friendship! it is a tie that binds fools and profligates! Friendship! it is the bond that unites the frivolous hearts of a Glaucus and a Clodius!
Then he paused a while, looked round the chamber to see that the doors were shut and make sure that they were alone, and went on, "Emlyn Stower, you have great wits and courage more than any woman that I know. Also you have knowledge both of the world and of what lies beyond it, being what superstitious fools call a witch, but I, a prophetess or a seer.
I need scarce remind you," he added, with a horrid grin, "of how the Borgias deal with such individuals, nor need I add that a Sforza may see fit to emulate those very conclusive measures of precaution. The family of Sforza has bred as yet no fools, nor shall I prove myself the first by placing in another's hands the power to make himself my master.
Israel rose. "Away?" "She is ill since her father went to Fez." "Ill?" "Yes, I heard so yesterday dying." Israel made one loud cry like the cry of a beast that is slaughtered, and fled out of the hut. Oh, fool of fools, why had he been dallying with dreams billing and cooing with his own fancies fondling and nuzzling and coddling them?
And then she spoke under sudden stress of feeling, without perhaps knowing the full wisdom of what she said: "Do you suppose that if our men at home had time for us, we would come over here, to you?" "Then all the more are the Americans fools!" He raised his champagne glass. "Signorina," he said, "may you find the American who has the time." Involuntarily her glance went toward John.
Well and good, if yo choose to be fools we'll not hinder you, so long as you're just; but our share we must and will have; we'll not be cheated. Well, we come before th' masters to state what we want, and what we must have, afore we'll set shoulder to their work; and they say, 'No. One would think that would be enough of hard-heartedness, but it isn't. They go and make jesting pictures on us!
With all his energies braced and strengthened; with his mind stored with profusest gifts; in the vigour of a constitution to which a hardy life had imparted a second and fresher youth; so trained by stern experience as to redeem with an easy effort all the deficiencies and faults which had once resulted from too sensitive an imagination and too high a standard for human actions; formed to render to his race the most brilliant and durable service, and to secure to himself the happiness which results from sobered fancy, a generous heart, and an approving conscience, here was Ernest Maltravers, backed, too, by the appliances and gifts of birth and fortune, perversely shutting up genius, life, and soul in their own thorny leaves, and refusing to serve the fools and rascals who were formed from the same clay, and gifted by the same God.
"You know, my dear friend, you know: To fools alone the future's smile unchangeable appears, For Friday's laughter Sunday's sun may change to bitter tears." "It is Sunday with you, my dear sir." "But I am not at the end of my life nor at the end of my energy, and I assure you that my energy makes me capable of many things." "I do not doubt it; I know what energy can do.
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