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It was the Psammead, of course 'On the look-out to make sillies of them as usual, as Cyril remarked later. And of course the next moment Robert's wish was granted, and he was bigger than the baker's boy. Oh, but much, much bigger.
Mary Virginia, with a quick glance, laid her hand on his arm. "Don't mind Laurence and me, we're a pair of sillies. You and the Padre are too good to put up with us the way you do," she said, coaxingly. "And we girls do like you, Mr. Flint, whether we're wished on you or not." That seductive "we" in that golden voice routed him, horse and foot.
"He must be jolly well worn out for his age." There was a burst of merriment, and it dawned on her that she was being made game of. "You sillies! How am I to know if you're joking?" Gaga, meanwhile, had stopped at the exhibition. Like all these ladies, she was delightedly preparing for the fray. A good season, provincials and foreigners rushing into Paris!
Which boasting the sillies had believed, thinking, as all women think, that their own particular male has been specially favoured of the gods and is therefore an Adonis in the eyes of every other woman. There was an indefinite air of trouble in that quarter of the bazaar which increased with the heat of the day.
Huh! I had made sure to carry Tige, my bulldog, hid under my coat, and I just let him loose. It makes me sick with laughing even now when I remember how those sillies tore off, with that pup snapping at their legs." "I'm glad to notice," said Billy, just then, "that we can fasten both doors to this lower room, if we feel like it. You see, they've got bolts that can be shot into the sockets."
She laid a hand on my arm. A wonderful new friendliness came into her voice. "It's impossible, Willie. Everything is different now everything. We made a mistake. We two young sillies made a mistake and everything is different for ever. Yes, yes." She turned about. "Nettie!" cried I, and still protesting, pursued her along the narrow alley between the staging toward the hot-house door.
Don't be like those sillies, and go below," and she motioned to Miss Pennington and Miss Dixon who were scurrying for cover, as the wind and the sea increased. "Well, I'll stay up a little while," agreed Ruth. "But I I'm afraid all the same." "Nonsense!" cried Alice gaily. "We have a good ship under us. It went through a mutiny, and I guess it can weather a storm."
"He was faithful to me, as the world counts faithfulness, simply because he didn't care for women except for philandering with sentimental sillies who thought him an unappreciated eighth wonder of the world, and pawed over and pitied him. La! La! The mere thought of it makes me sick! But he was too much in love with himself to be capable of even an animal passion for anybody else.
The two girls sat there, however, barely touching the good things in front of them, their chins on their breasts and avoiding each other's eyes. But when tia Picores's cup was almost empty her thundering voice came out to change the situation. "Did you ever see such a pair of sillies! Still mad, still mad! Well, well, the girls in the Market these days are not what they used to be!
I've always insisted that the holoku is the most charming garment ever invented for women." "Then it was my holoku and not I," she retorted. "I see you are like Dick always with a string on your compliments, and lo, when we poor sillies start to nibble, back goes the compliment dragging at the end of the string. "Now I want to show you the room," she hurried on, closing his disclaimer.
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