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Yet what detained her? No doubt Henry would pardon her outburst, and go on blustering and muddling into a ripe old age. But what was the good? She had just as soon vanish from his mind. "Are you serious in asking me, Helen? Should I get on with your Monica?" "You would not, but I am serious in asking you." "Still, no more plans now. And no more reminiscences." They were silent for a little.
He playfully scolds himself for muddling prepositions and confusing genders and cases, but his duty as a Christian priest is to instruct, not to charm, and so he tells the story of his times in such rustic Latin as he knows. He draws for us a vivid picture of Clovis, his savage valour, his astuteness, his regal passion.
He got into Parliament, you know, for Reddington at the by-election and we've been muddling along with honorary secretaries and typists. I shouldn't suggest it to you," she went on, so as to give him time to think, for he sat staring at her, openmouthed, bewildered, his breath coming quickly "I shouldn't suggest it to you if there were no chances for you in it.
When she is in watery signs, the native has freckles on the face, or, says Lilly, 'he or she is blub-cheeked, not a handsome body, but a muddling creature. Unless the moon is very well aspected, she ever signifies an ordinary vulgar person. We may note, in passing, that to each planet a special metal is assigned, as also particular colours.
"He has so many female friends in the most varied circles." "Well, we can close round her then," I returned; "for I on my side know, or used to know, her young man." "Her intended?" she had a light of relief for this. "The very one she's going out to. He can't, by the way," it occurred to me, "be very young now." "How odd it sounds her muddling after him!" said Mrs. Nettlepoint.
At length, however, he reached the woods which he had made the object of his excursion, and traversed them with care, muddling his disturbed brains with vague efforts to recall every circumstance of the catastrophe.
He paused for a few moments to think about getting help from Eilygugg. "There are no smugglers at home now," he said to himself, and his thoughts turned homeward. "Uncle couldn't climb up here and handle ropes," he muttered; "and as for Ness bah! he's a stupid muddling old woman. "I must get right round somehow and see where the opening is," said the lad, at last.
Meanwhile the hushed softness of the town held him prisoner and he sought in his muddling, gentle way to find out where the mystery lay, and what it was all about. But his limited French and his constitutional hatred of active investigation made it hard for him to buttonhole anybody and ask questions. He was content to observe, and watch, and remain negative.
"I've got money enough," he was accustomed to say, when the adventurous petitioned him to bolster new projects for swift returns, "all in gilt-edged securities. That's why I don't propose to lay awake an hour in my life, muddling over stocks. Why, it's destruction, man! it's death. It eats up your tissues faster than old age." The eccentricity of his verb indicated only the perfection of his tact.
At length, however, he reached the woods which he had made the object of his excursion, and traversed them with care, muddling his disturbed brains with vague efforts to recall every circumstance of the catastrophe.
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