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'Can't she see even if there were anything in the "Cause," as she calls it what an imbecile waste of time it is talking to these louts? 'There's a good many voters here, said a tall, gloomy-looking individual, wearing a muffler in lieu of a collar. 'She's politician enough to know that. Mrs. Fox-Moore looked through the man.
"Yes," continued Kathleen sneeringly, "I have heard of the jumble you made of your freshman year. It took a number of influential friends to pull you into favor again, I believe." "Not half such a jumble as you are making of yours," smiled Elfreda. Then she went on gravely: "I am glad you mentioned that freshman year. I did behave like an imbecile.
She could count upon Gilbert to a certain extent, to a considerable extent; but he would not be eternal, and his fancy for her would not be eternal. Once, before Easter, she had had the idea that he meant to suggest to her an exclusive liaison. Foolish! Nothing, less than nothing, had come of it. He would not be such an imbecile as to suggest such a thing to her.
"They had 'em down to the post office at Kulanche the other day showing 'em off, each one in a red shawl; and sneering at people with only one. And this imbecile Homer says to me: "'Of course it can't be hoped, he says, 'that this great world war will last that long; but if it could last till these boys was in shape to fight I bet it wouldn't last much after that.
Her confidence in her own power touched me profoundly. I suppose my love was too great for madness to get hold of me. I can’t say that I passed to a complete calm, but I became slightly ashamed of myself. I whispered: “No, it was not from affection, it was for the love of you that I brought him here. That imbecile H. was going to send him to Tolosa.”
O, dear me, what a wicked, piggish donkey of a girl I have made of myself, to be sure! And there is no hope! O, Mr. And at that she paused and asked my name. I am not writing my eulogium for the Academy; I will admit it was unpardonably imbecile, but I told it her.
"Not ill, but still evidently wasting away like a candle burnt down to the socket, flitting and flaring alternately; at one time almost imbecile, at others, talking and planning as if he were in the vigour of his youth. O what a curse it must be that love of money!
She never had been very sad, for Lord Tyrrell had been quite imbecile for a year, poor man! And when Frank came, she could not make enough of him; and he and I both thought the two families had been devotedly fond of each other, and that she was only too glad to meet one of them." "I suppose that was true." "So do I, as things stood then.
'Perhaps, my friend, philosopher, man of virtue, Imbecile, what you will; perhaps, said Rigaud, pausing in his drink to look out of his glass with his horrible smile, 'you would have done better to leave me alone? 'No! At least, said Clennam, 'you are known to be alive and unharmed.
If they see a man loitering about, without visible aim, they class him as a mild imbecile, and let him go; but boys are nature's detectives, and one does not so easily evade their scrutinizing eyes. I know full well that, while I study their ways, they are noting mine through a clearer lens, and are probably taking my measure far better than I take theirs.
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