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Everything was there, ready in him, to be turned one way or the other, and after he left Cambridge there was his silly mother and a sillier London waiting to finish him now he's nothing but Vanity and Fascination and soon there'll be nothing but Vanity." "You're unjust to him, Bobby, you always have been. "Well, perhaps I am.
"My dear father, allow me to assure you that the ideas I expressed are the new ideas most in vogue, ideas expressed in still plainer, or, if you prefer the epithet, still sillier terms than I employed. You will find them instilled into the public mind by 'The Londoner' and by most intellectual journals of a liberal character." "Kenelm, Kenelm, such ideas would turn the world topsy-turvy."
The wholesale merchant looks down on the retailer, the big retailer on the little; the burglar despises the pickpocket; the financier, the small promoter; the man who works with his brain, the man who works with his hands. A silly lot we are silly to look down, sillier to feel badly when we're looked down upon.
"But you ought to have told us. Suppose we'd wished something silly." "Silly?" said Robert, very crossly indeed. "How much sillier could you have been, I'd like to know? You nearly settled me I can tell you." Then he told his story, and the others admitted that it certainly had been rough on him.
Really, I some times think that the older people get the sillier they are. But it is not much use your looking for the squirrel, dear. He may be up in the fir-tree, or he may be in the beech, or he may have gone along the hedge. If you were by yourself, the best thing you could do would be to sit still where you are, and he would be nearly sure to come by, sooner or later.
One boy after hearing the story at once states his contempt for the knight's acquiescence, which he declares to be unworthy. "But," says the teacher, "you see he really did it to show the lady how foolish she was." The answer of the boy sums up what I have been trying to show: "There was no sense in his being sillier than she was, to show her she was silly."
Nothing did happen, and he began to think nothing would, and to feel rather disappointed, when he recollected the words he had been told to repeat "Abracadabra, dum dum dum!" He repeated them, laughing all the while, they seemed such nonsense. And then and then Now I don't expect anybody to believe what I am going to relate, though a good many wise people have believed a good many sillier things.
It was curious to see how differently Number Five's narrative was received by the different listeners in our circle. Number Five herself said she supposed she ought to be ashamed of its absurdities, but she did not know that it was much sillier than dreams often are, and she thought it might amuse the company. She was herself always interested by these ideal pictures of society.
"No," said Mrs. Lathrop, "I " "Nor me neither," said Susan, "an' now the next one is sillier yet, to my order of thinkin'. It's a letter an' begins, 'Dear Aunt Abby; then it says, 'Do you think it is possible to be happy with a young man with freckles? My husband says Yes, but my mother says No. He's my husband's son by his first wife. I have twins myself.
But at the sound of his voice the two men were so terrified that they ran straight home, and the man in the coffin got up and followed them, and it was his wife that gained the gold ring, as he had been sillier than the other two. From 'West Highland Tales. ONCE there lived a farmer who had three daughters, and good useful girls they were, up with the sun, and doing all the work of the house.
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