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He meets me every evening with the same story of trout rising all the way up the stream and nobody trying to catch them. I can see by his manner that he disapproves of my "muddling" over books and papers instead of trying to catch trout. He cannot understand it all.
Or have we already come up against the French?" "No, one can't hear them. They'd be firing if we had." "They were in a hurry enough to start us, and now here we stand in the middle of a field without rhyme or reason. It's all those damned Germans' muddling! What stupid devils!" "Yes, I'd send them on in front, but no fear, they're crowding up behind. And now here we stand hungry."
Hooper was painfully, one might have said, guiltily aware of that side of the business. She was an incompetent, muddling woman, who had never learnt to practise the simple and dignified thrift so common in the academic households of the University. For nowhere, really, was plain living gayer or more attractive than in the new Oxford of this date.
No realism is more crude than that of the disillusionized idealist; and for months the young Czar had seen his dream of a free and happy Europe fade away amidst the smoke of Napoleon's guns and the mists of English muddling. At first he blenched not even at the news of Friedland.
He makes me angrier than anyone, simply furious. With him I daren't even argue." An unhappy family, if talented. "But, of course, the real villain is Wagner. He has done more than any man in the nineteenth century towards the muddling of arts. I do feel that music is in a very serious state just now, though extraordinarily interesting.
He doesn't live like this" she made a contemptuous gesture; "muddling with silks and paintings, and pictures of bad women! What kind of a room is this for a man? Full of flowers and stinking jars, and cushions, and truck? It's more fit for a a creature like that picture" she set her heel on the smiling face; "than for a man! I ought never to have sent you here.
I wished I could have prevented her from being present at my instructions to Martha, for she frequently cut in with some fresh direction, muddling the poor girl's mind as she stood open-mouthed, listening to us both. "And mind you go first to the ladies," put in Miss Matilda. "Always go to the ladies before gentlemen when you are waiting."
Frank stood up and spoke hotly. Mr. Starr jumped up and was just as heated in his retort. "Yes!" "But the whole thing the muddling of the bank's books the disks a man shoving himself into the vault I'd have to be a lunatic to perform in that fashion!" "They say there's nothing new under the sun! There is, just the same! Some crook is thinking up a new scheme every day!"
He was not autocrat now, as he had been before, the New Zealand constitution which he had drafted, being in operation. Things had to move by routine, there was muddling somewhere, and in the middle of it all, the Maoris waylaid a small party of soldiers. Nobody had dreamt of such a thing.
"I have seen a good deal of him lately," she answered, walking on and making room for Stenson to fall into step by her side, but still keeping her face a little averted. "A man of many but confused ideas; a man, I should think, who stands an evil chance of muddling his career away." "We offered him a post in the Government," Stenson ruminated.
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