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There seemed to be nothing possible in the matter but to abuse the municipal council as numskulls and crawlers, and this was done on every hand with unfailing enthusiasm.

But I had my own quarrel, and I wasn't to be baited by such numskulls. And Lancy that was a thing I couldn't understand he did no more than shrug his shoulder and call for more ale, and wish them all good health and a hundred a year. I never thought he could ha' been so patient-like.

Public meetings, God knows, are rife enough, and why will the numskulls not confine their infernal dullness to them? why not be satisfied with splitting the ears of the groundlings there? why will they not consider that convivial conversation should be lively as the sparkle of musketry, brilliant, sharp, and sprightly, and not like the thundering of heavy cannon, or heavier bombs.

Still Mac eyed it enviously. "What part of the world are you from, sir?" said the Colonel when they had drawn up to the supper table. "San Francisco. Used to teach numskulls Latin and mathematics in the Las Palmas High School." "What's the value of a coat like that little one?" interrupted Mac. "Oh, about twenty dollars." "The Shageluks ask that much?" Benham laughed.

Moreover, she had hardly recovered her equanimity since the disturbance which she had suffered from Oak's remarks. "That's enough that's enough! oh, you fools!" she cried, throwing the parasol and Prayer-book into the passage, and running out of doors in the direction signified. "To come to me, and not go and get them out directly! Oh, the stupid numskulls!"

Then they all exclaimed in chorus: "Well, what of it?" And Jumbo added sarcastically: "It'll be a nice day to-morrow if it doesn't rain." Quiz was a long time getting his breath and opening his eyes; then it was his turn to look around in amazement and to exclaim: "What of it? What of it? Why, you numskulls, don't you see it's just the chance you wanted for revenge?"

In the red firelight it was such a scene of happiness that I misdoubted for a moment the wisdom of my plan to make them into fine grand numskulls. I could see that all men were not fitted for the work. It needed a beefy person with fat legs and a large amount of inexplicable dignity, a regular God-knows-why loftiness.

Herron, who appreciated that Olivia was an "outsider." "Certainly he was jesting, Mrs. Pierson. Mr. Langdon pretends to have eccentric ideas one of them is that everybody with brains should be put under the feet of the numskulls; another is that anybody who has anything should be locked up and his property given to those who have nothing." "Splendid!" exclaimed Langdon.

At Ruth's home he never met a large mind, with the exception of Professor Caldwell, and Caldwell he had met there only once. As for the rest, they were numskulls, ninnies, superficial, dogmatic, and ignorant. It was their ignorance that astounded him. What was the matter with them? What had they done with their educations? They had had access to the same books he had.

I dined, myself, while those numskulls were deliberating which world you should belong to this, or some other. Let me show you the nearest tavern to dine well at." Drawing his arm through his own, he took him down Ludgate-hill to Fleet-street, and so, up a covered way, into a tavern.