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Her husband, as she paused to look in at his door, greeted her: "Had a good time?" She could not answer. He yawned, delicately. He was seated at his mirror, arranging his wringing wet permanent in serried rows by means of tiny combs. "Gooooo oooo oo d night," he said. That was all. Yet she was kinda mad. A footle, twaddly love affair! No art. A silly little dumpling smattering with a brute beast.
The quintette thereupon spread themselves out, but every shop was drawn blank. "Rum!" said Rogers. "Where can the ass be?" "If we knew, Solomon, would we try to find out?" said Sharpe. "I say, you fellows I've got an idea about Grimmy. Didn't Lancaster give him a leg-up for his chemistry the other day? Permission to footle in the lab. on half-holidays, and all the rest of it?
Now there is no military force on earth, nor likely to be, strong enough to prevent America from treating these agreements as Germany has just treated the 1839 Treaty guaranteeing the neutrality of Belgium. Therefore the Militarists declare that the agreements are not worth the scraps of paper they are written on. They always will footle in this way.
I'm not going to piffle about any more." "Oh, don't be an ass, Gus! I've heard that footle before," said Cotton, with his heavy selfishness. "Not quite, for this time I mean what I say." "Oh no, you don't!" "Oh yes, I do!" "You wouldn't leave a fellow in the lurch like this, after all I " "I was left in the lurch last term, Jim, dear, and I'd rather you had a taste of it this go.
"You wouldn't like it. You'd prefer the movies." Four days later, Daisy Snow called and gave Warble a jolt or two. "Huh, sizing me up, are they?" Warble sniffed. "Looking at me through the footle, distorted little microscope of their own silly scrubby little souls! Pooh, they couldn't, one of them, make a decent puff paste!" "But we can get cooks to do that.
Gus gave Jim some good advice about the schools, which made Jim feel a bit dubious. "Chuck your Bohn's cribs and your keys under the grate, and show up your own work." "Footle, you mean, Gus." "All right, footle, then. I know all our own private personal beaks would rather have a fellow's own work, if of fair quality, than all the weirdest screeds from any crib whatsoever."
"Think of the people to whom your bottles of footle go! "Think of the little clerks and jaded women and overworked people. People overstrained with wanting to do, people overstrained with wanting to be.... People, in fact, overstrained.... The real trouble of life, Ponderevo, isn't that we exist that's a vulgar error; the real trouble is that we DON'T really exist and we want to.
Thereupon she mounted to the saddle, a bit of gymnastics for which she declined my assistance, and looked down upon me from a great height. "Did anybody ever tell you," was her surprising inquiry, "that you are the queerest man of these times?" "No," I answered. "Don't you think you're a queerer woman?" "FOOTLE!" she cried scornfully. "Be off to your woods and your woodscaping!"
"I suppose you'll just footle, then," his friend had summed it up, and left him, because it was half-past six, and they had dinner at that strange hour. That was why they were able to run it into their tea, since obviously nothing could be done between, even by Peter's energetic friend. This friend had little hope for Peter. Of course, he would just footle; he always had.
She was the girl who was teaching the poet the elements of ping-pong. The poet usually missed the ball, for he was averse to and unapt for anything requiring quickness of eye and dexterity of hand. On a seat lay open a volume of the Poetry of the Celtic Renascence, which Blake had been reading to Miss Macrae till she used the vulgar phrase 'footle, and invited him to be educated in ping-pong.
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