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We were frankly silly about certain things. He and I had some imaginary personages Dr. Waddilove, supposed to be a rich beneficed clergyman of Tory views; Mr. McTurk, a matter-of-fact Scotsman; Henry Bland, a retired schoolmaster with copious stores of information; and others and we used often to discourse in character. But he always knew when to stop. He would say to me suddenly: "Dr.
"What becomes of it, then?" and there was no answer. But Miranda was not content with her triumph. She must needs carry the war unwisely into the enemy's camp. "After all, what in the world can have possessed you, Dennis, to back a silly old mare like Barmaid?" Dennis Brown saw his opportunity. "I always back horses with the names of things to kiss," he declared.
"Men are fools where women are concerned." "Or women are wise where men are concerned." "I guess they do know their business some of them," he confessed. "Still, it's a silly business, you must admit." "Nothing is silly that's successful," said Susan. "Depends on what you mean by success," argued he. "Success is getting what you want." "Provided one wants what's worth while," said he.
Ivanoff stood still. "Why?" "Because this place bores me." "Something has scared you, eh?" "Scared me? I'm going because I wish to go." "Yes, but the reason?" "My good fellow, don't ask silly questions. I want to go, and that's enough. As long as one hasn't found people out, there is always a chance that they may prove interesting.
Some of us come from the breasts of chickens and some from the breasts of turkeys. When we are placed above a doorsill in a house, we bring good luck!" "Don't the people in the house here wish good luck?" asked the match box. "What a silly question!" replied the wishbone, "Anyone could easily see you do not know much!" "Then why didn't they place you above the door?" asked the stove lifter.
This seemed to amuse the old clock mightily; in fact, the old clock fell to laughing so heartily that in an unguarded moment she struck twelve instead of ten, which was exceedingly careless and therefore to be reprehended. "Why, you silly little mauve mouse," said the old clock, "you don't believe in Santa Claus, do you?" "Of course I do," answered the little mauve mouse. "Believe in Santa Claus?
"You know what I mean. But I didn't think she'd behave in this dog-in- the-manger fashion. She might have at least given me a chance for a tete-a-tete with him, even if he is her hero." "I am only too well aware what Lord Avondale will think of you, going on in this silly way," observed Mrs. Gantry. "If Lord Avondale doesn't like me and my manners, he needn't. Need you, Mr. Scarbridge?"
As for us it was just possible that owing to this silly dream we were having about a mob of common, uneducated Arabs, for some of us there might not be any to-morrow. "Is there a back door where we can dash out and give them the slip?" asked Bronson. I was thinking hard.
Fight on my men, says Sir Andrew Barton, I am hurt, but I am not slain; I'll lay me down and bleed awhile, And then I'll rise and fight again; and that with no silly notion of playing the hero what have creatures like us to do with heroism who are not yet barely honest! but because so to fight is the truth, and the only way.
He told Mildred what he had done when he saw her at breakfast next morning. She thought him very silly. "I never knew anyone who made money on the Stock Exchange," she said. "That's what Emil always said, you can't expect to make money on the Stock Exchange, he said." Philip bought an evening paper on his way home and turned at once to the money columns.
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