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Yet, I must admit that, for the time, I was a little hurt by his evident belief that we would allow our feeling for each other which is rather beyond his comprehension, isn't it, dear? to be coerced by mercenary considerations." "Oh, Rudolph is just a jackass-fool, anyway." She was not particularly interested in the subject.
Patricia was horribly frightened. "And afterwards the jackass-fool made matters worse by calling me 'his darling. There is no more hateful word in the English language than 'darling. It sounds like castor-oil tastes, or a snail looks after you have put salt on him." The colonel deliberated this information; and he appeared to understand.
It was a man's voice, and its tones were angry. "No! no!" the man was saying; "I'll agree to no such nonsense, I tell you! What do you think I am?" "I think you are a jackass-fool," Miss Stapylton said, crisply, "and a fortune-hunter, and a sot, and a travesty, and a whole heap of other things I haven't, as yet had time to look up in the dictionary.
"Ah, don't make fun of Rudolph!" she cried, quickly. "Rudolph can't help it if he is conscientious and in consequence rather depressing to live with. And for all that he so often plays the jackass-fool about women, like Grandma Pendomer, he is a man, Jack a well-meaning, clean and dunderheaded man!
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