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He pours out all as plain As downright Shippen or as old Montaigne. This is one cause of the clearness and force of his writings. An argument does not stop to stagnate and muddle in his brain, but passes at once to his paper. His ideas are served up, like pancakes, hot and hot. Fresh theories give him fresh courage.
Walker soon came to the hiding place of his friend. "What ho?" asked Gouvernail. "What brings you here at this unseemly hour?" "I need your advice," replied Walker. "My poor head carries too great a muddle." "You come to one who can offer but poor solace there," replied Gouvernail. "If it were trusty arm, good club or something belike, you could well come to me. But speak, what troubles you?"
'Perhaps you flatter yourself that is the case, but it does not deceive me. You merely come here because Mr. Kenyon is in a muddle about what I am going to do. Isn't that the reason? Miss Longworth saw that her task was going to be even harder than she had expected. 'Suppose we let all question of motive rest?
"Could I do the Dragon?" asked Bobby, releasing his hot face from the folds of an old blue cloak lined with red, in which he was rehearsing his walk as a belated wayfarer. "Certainly not," said I, "you're the Bereaved Father and the Faithful Attendant to begin with, and I hope you won't muddle them. And you're Twelve Travellers as well, and the thunder, remember!"
Chris's father had been one of those baffling persons who are always in want of money and yet seem quite incapable of giving a clear account of their wants. His affairs had been in a perpetual muddle from the beginning of his career, and had probably ended so.
"Think of it," Rooksby said, "and me a justice, and... oh, it drives me wild, this hole-and-corner work! There's a filthy muddle with the Free Traders a whistle to blow after dark at the quarry. To-night of all nights, and me a justice... and as good as a married man!" I looked at him wonderingly in the dusk; his high coat collar almost hid his face, and his hat was pressed down over his eyes.
Several regiments became inextricably mingled, and whole companies were swept away and compelled to cross whether they would or no, while others, crowded off to the side of the road, had to stand there and mark time; and by way of putting the finishing touch to the muddle; a squadron of cavalry insisted on passing, pressing back into the adjoining fields the stragglers that the infantry had scattered along the roadside.
She's making it and spending it, I fancy." Silence. Then: "What of this other woman. What are you going to do about her?" O-liver leaned forward, speaking earnestly. "I love her. But I'm not free. It's all a muddle." "Does she know you're married?" "No. I've got to tell her. But I'll lose her if I do. Her comradeship, I mean. And I don't want to give it up." "There is of course a solution."
You may, if you choose, make a muddle of it without a lawyer, but you can't do it right without one. "`Can you recommend one to me? says she. "I was greatly tickled at the notion o' the likes o' me bein' axed to recommend a lawyer. It was so like your mother's innocence and trustfulness. Howsever, she'd come to the right shop, as it happened, for I did know a honest lawyer!
We get so confused in the continual muddle of our own mistakes that when something does come straight through, as it was intended to do, we're like those men who heard the voice of God that day and told one another anxiously that it thundered.
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