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Do you remember before, when you refused the room with the view? Those were muddles little, but ominous and I am fearing that you are in one now." She was silent. "Don't trust me, Miss Honeychurch. Though life is very glorious, it is difficult." She was still silent.
The second is ushered in by the devil, who intensifies the disorder and muddles things bewilderingly. But happily there is always a third act in which the Holy Ghost descends and arranges everything for the best."
'There is a scene, he says, 'which most lawyers know by heart, but which I can never hear without pain. It is the scene when the prisoner, confused by the unfamiliar surroundings, and by the legal rules which he does not understand, tries to question the adverse witness, and muddles up the examination with what ought to be his speech for the defence, and, not knowing how to examine, is at last reduced to utter perplexity, and thinks it respectful to be silent.
I'd probably be rushing round for freckle lotion and patent nose pins, to give me a Greek-boy effect. I'd take to swathing myself in chiffons and have my hair a different tint each season. I think every business woman would do the same, too if she had the chance. We have to fool ourselves to keep on going down the broad highway; or else we would be sanitarium devotees, neurasthenic muddles.
"But it's all right now?" "I think so." "You only think? You aren't sure? I do love these little muddles tidied up?" "Oh yes, I'm sure," said Mrs. Wilcox, moving with uneasiness beneath the clothes. "I always sound uncertain over things. It is my way of speaking." "That's all right, and I'm sure too." Here the maid came in to remove the breakfast-tray.
She led the way with a rustle or silk petticoats and a suggestion of lifted eyebrows. She was inclined to think that the thing sounded more portentous than amusing. Thank Heaven! it was not possible for Emily to have involved herself in annoying muddles. She was not that kind of woman. When she came out of the room some twenty minutes later she did not look quite like herself.
He just muddles me up with a lot of figures " "You have seen him, then?" "Of course I have seen him. But one thing I do know. I owe you over a hundred pounds, and I am going to pay it!" "But, Flamby," said Don, a startled expression appearing upon his face, "you don't owe it to me at all. You are wrong." Flamby studied him carefully for awhile. "I am going to send it to Mr.
Phillips gets so annoyed with me, it only muddles me more." "Why do you bother to learn?" she asked. It seemed rather strange that a man of his age should have to struggle with so elementary a subject. "I have worked in an office for the last ten years," he explained. "The new boss has suddenly decided that shorthand is necessary.
Ephraim looked sharply at his guest and reflected: "What our business needs is a clear head and a strong body, not an overtaxed man, as this 'pears to be. Well, sick or well, I hope he can see through some of our muddles, if not all; and half a loaf is better than no bread." Then he gathered the traveler's belongings, and remarked: "I told Aleck to have a good supper ready.
"After all I dare say such a queer faddy fellow IS out of his element here. He'll go down better over there," was John's mental verdict. Mahony's, a characteristic: "Thank God, I shall not have to put up much longer with his confounded self-importance, or suffer under his matrimonial muddles!"
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