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Just you put her down in a room with six clever women, and you will see who is the favorite. She looks as shallow as a pond, and she is as deep as the ocean." At the end of the year he threw off the mask altogether. "The great sweetener of a man's life," said he, "is 'a simpleton. I shall not go abroad any more; my house has become attractive: I've got a simpleton.
"No, I replied I; "I have refused travelling with a much more creditable companion than yourself." "There you are wrong then; for, depend upon it, a cloister will be your fate; at any rate my business here is at an end. The new monarch is young, and attached to his wife, and my daughter-in-law is too great a simpleton to be turned to any account at court."
And yet, in his extreme astonishment, he was flattered and delighted. "Of course," said Auntie Hamps, "you're so difficult to talk to " "Difficult to talk to! Me?" "Otherwise your auntie might have given you a hint long ago. I believe you are a simpleton after all! I cannot understand what's come over the young men in these days. Letting a girl like that wait and wait!"
"Well, my dear son, I will reward thee for thine obedience," said the father. Lo! the cocks crowed and the old man dropped into the grave. The Simpleton arrived home and went to the warm stove. "What happened?" asked the brothers. "Nothing," he answered. "I slept the whole night and am hungry now." The second night it was Pakhom's turn to go to his father's grave.
He did not begin to treat me coldly, as a poor simpleton, when my uncle and I so fatally quarrelled; nor did he afterwards gradually possess himself of our business and edge me out. On the contrary, he behaved to me with the utmost good faith and honour. John did not say, in reply, that rich old relatives were palpable facts, and that love and sentiment were moonshine and fiction.
Mabel's husband was not a simpleton, or characterless; but if he had been, his prospetts of success would not have been materially damaged by her knowledge of his deficiencies. A union with him was a safe investment, and must be several degrees more supportable than was her position at Ridgeley, banned by its owner and patronized by his wife.
Baisemeaux reflected; he perceived, at a glance, the consequence of this withdrawal of a prisoner by means of a forged order; and, putting in the scale the guarantee offered him by the official order of the general, did not consider it of any value. Aramis divined this. "My dear Baisemeaux," said he, "you are a simpleton.
And as she acted the simpleton, feigning terror and asking what all this was coming to, he replied abruptly: "It's nothing to do with you. Let me manage our affairs alone. They'll get on all the better." A few minutes later he was rapidly threading his way along the Rue de la Banne.
Even a half-grown boy, who should argue, that because men have certain feelings toward certain persons in certain circumstances, they must have the same feelings toward all persons in all circumstances, or toward persons in opposite circumstances, of totally different grades, habits, and personal peculiarities, might fairly be set down as a hopeless simpleton: and yet, men of sense and reflection on other subjects, seem bent upon stultifying themselves by just such shallow inferences from the fact, that slaveholders are hospitable and generous to certain persons in certain grades of society belonging to their own caste.
"Why, you are a little simpleton to send your money the dear knows where, when you might buy a whole yard of this beautiful ribbon and have a penny left!" Charlotte looked wishfully at the ribbon, and sighed as she answered, "But I earned this money on purpose to give."
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