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Her eyes, all softened with pleasure and gratitude, nay, almost with tenderness, met his. He stopped suddenly short. "Miss Nevill, might I ask you to walk with me as far as the clerk's cottage? I I forget which it is!" It was the lamest and most blundering excuse. Any six-year-old child in the village could have pointed out the cottage to him. Mrs. Daintree looked up in astonishment.
Quarters for the cowboys comfortable, roomy adobe houses that not even the lamest cowboy dared describe as crampy bunks stood in a row upon a long bench of ground above the lake. And down to the edge of the valley the cluster of Mexican habitations and the little church showed the touch of the same renewing hand.
This flood of flashing chivalry was succeeded by an anti-masque of beggars and cripples, mounted on the lamest and most unsightly of rat-tailed srews and spavined ponies, and wearing dresses that threw derision on legal vestments and decorations.
But satires upon the clown-like character of our climate, which, after the lamest sort of a spring, somehow manages a capital fall, would in the Far East be as out of keeping with fancy as with fact. To a Japanese, who never personifies anything, such innocent irony is unmeaning. Besides, it would be also untrue. For his May carries no suggestion of unfulfilment in its name.
I shall not want many new dresses there; and then, papa, you are so good to me all the time, you deserve your own way about your holiday." And Tom Duffan said, "Thank you, Kitty," in such a peculiar way that Kitty lost all her wits, blushed crimson, dropped her fan, and finally left the room with the lamest of excuses. And then Mrs. Duffan said, "Tom, you ought to be ashamed of yourself!
Hugh shall carry your shawl he likes carrying shawls." "He is getting used to it," interposed her husband dryly. "Ah, well, that is settled," continued the lady gaily, leaving her victim no time to formulate more than the lamest of protests.
And 'Passon' thereupon began, in the lamest, feeblest, most paternally orthodox manner: "My dear children " "Hooray! Hooray! Three cheers for 'Passon'! Hooray!" Wild whooping followed, and the Maypole rocked uneasily, and began to slant downward in a drunken fashion, like a convivial giant whom strong wine has made doubtful of his footing.
He bled us freely, and altogether we paid him nearly $10,000, and our defense by our eight lawyers four Queen's Counsels and four barristers was about the lamest and most idiotic possible.
This gained, she came up the path and went in through the parlour door, and disappeared alter making a clear circuit of the house, and not once pausing or looking to right or left! I confess I was fairly baffled. I sank back on the seat I had left, and said to myself that this was the lamest of all conclusions. I was sure that she had exchanged no word with anyone.
The old joke that the Greek sects only differed about a single letter is about the lamest and most illogical joke in the world. An atheist and a theist only differ by a single letter; yet theologians are so subtle as to distinguish definitely between the two.
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