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Every traveller has seen the quaint half-foolish little man, as he stands there holding his two geese who politely turn away their heads in order to produce the streams of water!
Devrait durer toujours! devrait durer toujours! In the meantime, Marius trembled. It seemed impossible to him that she should not hear his breathing. She stepped to the window and looked out with the half-foolish way she had. "How ugly Paris is when it has put on a white chemise!" said she.
Then I, overcome by the strange thing, turned half-foolish by the bizarre mingling of comedy and impressiveness in Sapt's rendering of it, plucked him by the sleeve, and asked, with something between a laugh and a gasp: "Who had that other corpse been, Constable?" He turned his small, keen eyes on me in persistent gravity and unflinching effrontery. "A Mr.
It is the half-wise, and the half-foolish, who are the most dangerous. To see a difficult thing lightly handled gives us the impression of the impossible. Difficulties increase the nearer we come to our aim. Sowing is not so painful as reaping. If any one meets us who owes us a debt of gratitude, it immediately crosses our mind.
You can easily find out about him." "True," murmured the secret agent eagerly. Then she told him of her walk in the gloaming and what she had seen in the garden of the peasant's cot the two men dressed exactly alike. One must be the half-foolish Nicko; the other must be the spy. M. Lafrane nodded eagerly again, pursing his lips.
He was just drunk enough to be sociable, and spying Richard by the light of the lamppost he hurried to his side, and taking his arm in the confidential manner he always assumed when intoxicated, he began talking in a half-foolish, half-rational way, very disgusting to Richard, who tried vainly to shake him off.
Gentle half-foolish Philip Feltram would tell the story of his wrongs, and weep and wish he was dead; and kind Mrs. Julaper, who remembered him a child, would comfort him with cold pie and cherry-brandy, or a cup of coffee, or some little dainty. "O, ma'am, I'm tired of my life. What's the good of living, if a poor devil is never let alone, and called worse names than a dog?
"He may have looked out of the window and seen it, and, in the half-foolish state he was in, taken it for something supernatural." "But why should that have done him any harm?" "It may have terrified him." "Why should it terrify him?" said Cosmo. "There may be things we know nothing of," replied his father, "to answer that question. I cannot help feeling rather uneasy about it."
For three days Tania stayed alone in that cheerless room. She saw no one but an old, half-foolish man who came to her three times a day to bring her food. He gave Tania a few rough garments to dress herself in and treated the little prisoner kindly, but Tania found it was quite useless to ask the old man questions.
He had fancied himself, in prospect, sitting beside her at the table, exchanging that pleasant, half-foolish badinage with which young men are wont to entertain girls who are their companions at dinners, both nearly oblivious of the rest of the company.
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