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"You dear, silly child! The whole storm and trouble of life comes from things being in the wrong place. This has been in the wrong place and made mischief." "Like me," she murmured. "Like you," he agreed. "Now we shall be as we should be. Give me your hand."
The safest way of having no thoughts of one's own is to take up a book every moment one has nothing else to do. It is this practice which explains why erudition makes most men more stupid and silly than they are by nature, and prevents their writings obtaining any measure of success. They remain, in Pope's words: For ever reading, never to be read!
There was something blood-curdling in the bare idea. The Misses Avery considered Prudence herself rather a sweet, silly little thing. "You have some real nice people in the Methodist church," Miss Dora had told her. "I dare say you will find a few of them very likeable." "Oh, I will like them all," said Prudence quickly and seriously. "Like them all!" echoed Miss Dora. "Oh, impossible!"
And it is worth while here to remark, that vanity, idleness, and imprudence, often bring a man to utter ruin both of soul and body, though silly people do not put them in the catalogue of heavy sins, and those who indulge in them are often reckoned honest, merry fellows, with the best hearts in the world.
There, struggling before her, was the object for which she had jumped. The cat was writhing in distracted misery, and Jinnie picked him up in her arms. She was sitting on the ground when Molly, very pale, rolled back. "You little fool! You silly little fool!" she exclaimed, leaping out. "You might have been killed doing such a thing." "You ran over the kitty," wept Jinnie, bowing her head.
But her lids were lowered and her lips were quivering with some pain. "My darling, what is it? Sabine, you shrank from me! What does it mean?" "It means nothing, Henry." And the poor child tried to smile. "Only that I am very foolish and silly, and I do not believe I like caresses much." And then, to make things sound more light, she went on: "You see, I have had so few of them in my life.
His bright-eyed little sister has made her appearance at his elbow, and has placed upon the pretty five-o'clock table a cup of coffee and some of her own making of tea-cakes. "Lottie, you silly little puss, why did you go to such trouble?" asked the admiring brother, as he took the little hands in his and looked into the piquant face for answer.
I could only stammer out that I did not think I loved him enough; and my poor old father saw in this reluctance only the fancy of a silly girl who did not know her own mind, but who had now gone too far to recede.
Anne, your recitation was simply great, although I thought at first you were never going to begin. I think it was better than Mrs. Evans's." "Oh, no, don't say things like that, Jane," said Anne quickly, "because it sounds silly. It couldn't be better than Mrs. Evans's, you know, for she is a professional, and I'm only a schoolgirl, with a little knack of reciting.
"Well, that's over!" remarked the Kangaroo, as one of the blacks pretended to spear the dressed-up black fellow, and all the rest began to dance around, whilst the sham Kangaroo made believe to be dead. "Well, I forgive their killing such a silly creature! There wasn't a jump in it."
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