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"Because he is always like that; pleasant, never ruffled, kindly. He will make a good husband to some woman." The vintner shrugged. He was not patient to-night. "Who is this mysterious woman?" "I am not free to tell you." "Oh!" "Leopold, what is the matter with you to-night? You act like a boy." "Perhaps the police muddle is to blame.
A quarrelsome band of footsore sulky niggers trod on the heels of the donkey; a lot of tents, camp-stools, tin boxes, white cases, brown bales would be shot down in the courtyard, and the air of mystery would deepen a little over the muddle of the station.
The weed he chewed in the belief that it not only kept his physical body in perfect health, but purified his soul as well; cracking the knuckles on his left forefinger cleared the muddle of his mind when he wanted to go deep into a subject that baffled him. Hunched forward on another box sat Murphy nursing his elbow with one grimy palm and his pipe with the other.
People aren't simple, and though they may mean to be reasonable, they end" in the condition in which she found herself, she meant, but added lamely "in a muddle." "Because," Denham instantly intervened, "they don't make themselves understood at the beginning.
You didn't take your wife for fast and for loose; but for better for worse. If she has turned out worse why, all we have got to say is, she might have turned out better. ''Tis a muddle, said Stephen, shaking his head as he moved to the door. ''Tis a' a muddle! 'Now, I'll tell you what! Mr. Bounderby resumed, as a valedictory address.
Belloc, who believe that this war is really a war in the interests of the Athanasian Creed, fatness, and unrestricted drink against science, discipline, and priggishly keeping fit enough to join the army, as very good fun indeed, good matter for some jolly reeling ballad about Roundabout and Roundabout, the jolly town of Roundabout; but to anyone else the question of how it is that this wasteful Bocking-Braintree muddle, with its two boards, its two clerks, its two series of jobs and contracts, manages to keep on, was even before the war a sufficiently discouraging one.
When the two young men from the College pressed their petition, she asked, with a laugh that surprised them, whether they wished to "mock and muddle" her. They went away, assenting to Mrs. Tarrant's last remark: "I am afraid you'll feel that you don't quite understand us yet."
In that time of muddle and obscurity people were overtaken by needs and toil and hot passions before they had the chance of even a year or so of clear thinking; they settled down to an intense and strenuous application to some partial but immediate duty, and the growth of thought ceased in them. They set and hardened into narrow ways.
I suppose that before men will discipline themselves to learn and plan, they must first see in a hundred convincing forms the folly and muddle that come from headlong, aimless and haphazard methods.
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