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"Yes, she is, and rather amusing, too, in a footling sort of way. She's got a fearful appetite, and she thinks of herself all day long. I know because she damn near ruined me over cream buns once." "I suppose Gilbert was in love with her?..." "I suppose so. He didn't tell me and I didn't ask, but he mooned about with her and looked awfully sloppy when he passed her things. You know what I mean.
She's perfectly justified. For the little footling services I rendered her on the journey, she's idiotically grateful out of all proportion. As for Persia, she knows nothing about it " "She ought to," said I. "If you tell her, I'll break your neck," roared Jaffery. "All right," said I, desiring to remain whole. "So long as you're satisfied, it doesn't much matter to me." It didn't.
For anything simpler than distributing a few footling books to a bunch of grimy-faced kids I can't imagine. Still, for some reason I can't imagine, I was feeling a little nervous, but now I feel fine, Bertie fine, fine, fine and I say this to you as an old friend. Because that's what you are, old man, when all the smoke has cleared away an old friend. I don't think I've ever met an older friend.
'It is because, my dear, you don't care the ghost of a straw for either. That one he was worn out long ago, and we never knew it. I know it now. Time and the sheer going-on of day by day, without either of us guessing at it, wore that down till it had no more meaning for you or me than any other faded remembrance in this interminable footling with truth that we call life.
Only, the old big free dreams that had glorified it, were gone. He was in harness, drawing a cart; following a bundle of hay. He sprang impatiently to his feet, thrust back his chair so violently as he did so that it tipped over with a crash. The one really footling, futile, fool thing to do, was what he was doing now lamenting his old way of life and making no effort to recapture it!
It seems rather footling work for a man, but he did it; and he says the first thing is to get a personal understanding of the processes and all that. Of course I've always been keen on machinery." "Good, then we shall see something of each other." "That's what I want more than you do, very likely.
He said that all them footling little beasts were a-listening to 'em, and they told him all about it. I remember he told me more about the woods than I know myself and I reckon I could teach his business to any gamekeeper or poacher in England. I don't say as how he knew the difference between a stoat and a weasel he didn't. A cock-pheasant and a hen-partridge would have been the same to him.
Evidently he had contracted to deliver just so many warnings per diem; and invariably he got so busy chasing insects, enjoying the sun, gossiping with a friend and generally footling about that the late afternoon caught him unawares with never a chirp accomplished. So he sat in a bush and said his say over and over just as fast as he could without pause for breath or recreation.
"I'm not such an ass as to fall off a footling balcony. What do you take me for?" "I take you for Adrian's friend," she said, very erect, brave elf facing horrible ogre and, either by chance or design, her hand touched and held the tip of a great silver-framed photograph of her late husband. "I think I've proved it," said Jaffery. "Are you proving it now?
And mother died of cancer. And mother was very beautiful." "Well, you can tell the footling ass from me that he's a thumping liar. Elemental grandmother! Let me tell you this much cancers come from one thing only, and that's irritation injury, often. Corsets, sometimes or a blow If I were to thump you " He laughed, and turned away. "Yes, I know," she said quietly.
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