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He was weak, yet not too weak to recognise that he had formed a calculation now vitiated by a wrong factor put his name to a contract of which the other side had not been carried out. More than fifty years of conscious success pressed him to try to understand; he had never muddled his affairs and he couldn't muddle them now.
During the recent war there was inevitably much waste and muddle in the utilization of the military resources of the Allies. Some regiments would be kept inactive for long periods, not for purposes of rest or training, but owing to some defect of organization.
"We all want you to come home, father included. Dora and Dick had your room turned out yesterday, and, when father saw the muddle, he asked why. They told him your room was being got ready for your return. He seemed overjoyed and quite overcome, and for the first time since his illness he looks something like his old self.
It did not square with my preconceived ideas of him that he would derive any satisfaction from taking his niece by surprise. All was a muddle together, and as my temples throbbed with the intensity of my thoughts, I was half disposed to believe myself in a troubled dream from which I should presently awake. Meanwhile, on glided the train.
And this is another infernal complication of the freedom of marital choice we grant our princes!" "Ten years ago," flamed Ronador passionately, "you and my father picked a wife for me! Is not that enough? Now that she is dead, I shall marry whom I choose. Has it not occurred to you that after all it is the sanest way out of this horrible muddle?"
The family was still wondering why the rich aunt had turned sulky at the last hour. But she was always an eccentric; a capricious and haughty personage. Poor Madame Dépine's recurrent "My wig! my brooch!" reduced the official mind to the same muddle as her own.
Hangs people who ain't soldiers, and shoots them as is. Court-martial, you know." "Punch, you are getting in a muddle." "Glad of it," said the boy, "for I thought it was, and I don't like to hear you talk like that." "Then let's put it right. An executor is one who executes the commands of a person who is dead." "Oh, I see," said the boy. "Dead without being executed."
"Where is he?" said M. Formery. "Why did you let him go?" "Shall I send for him, sir?" said the inspector. "No, no, it doesn't matter," said M. Formery; and, turning to M. Gournay-Martin and the Duke, he said, "Now we're really going to have trouble with Guerchard. He is going to muddle up everything. This telegram will be the last straw.
Babcock's tender conscience seemed to him a capital farce, and his traveling back to Milan only to get into a deeper muddle appeared, as the reward of his pedantry, exquisitely and ludicrously just.
Why, he has been working till his brain must all be in a muddle; and it is the best thing in the world for him, or he would be mixing up the Spaniards and the Romans, and the x's and y's and the tangents, and all the other things into a regular jumble and it is a nice business that would have been.
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