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"Whatever else she was," he said, finally, "I don't think she was a lady buccaneer. Olga Cedarstrom appeared to be almost as stupid a person as I ever saw. But she was bad tempered no doubt of that." "Yes, Daddy, her disposition was not very sweet," admitted Janice, with a sigh. "But it looks queer," her father pursued.
He then staggered on homewards, half stupid from the strangulation scene, and very far removed from sobriety, in consequence of the copious libations of brandy he had swallowed in the course of the day and evening. "Good night, Captain Phil," cried Raymond after him; "when will you come to the hills to meet Bet M'Cracken again? Ha ha there now, that's one."
Any way, I've a notion that if you let him see that there is no one in the house wishes him worse than you, or would see him starve, the stupid fool, with a lighter heart I'm thinking it will be for bringing him down, if anything will!" She did not answer. And outwardly she was not much moved.
Perhaps she's old and bright enough to talk to Webb, and draw him out of his learned preoccupation," she added, with a shy glance toward the one who was growing too remote from her daily life. Even his bronzed face flushed, but he said, with a laugh: "She is evidently much too bright for me, and would soon regard me as insufferably stupid.
I thought with envy of the Aztec children, of the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow, of Saint Somebody with his head tucked under his arm. Plotinus was less ashamed of his whole body than I of this inconsiderate and stupid appendage. To be sure, I might swim for a certain distance under water.
I could have afforded the two millions of francs and I promised to settle Melcourt-le-Danois on them into the bargain, when I if I ever should But my niece wouldn't take him simply would not. Ah," she cried, in a strangled voice, "c'était trop fort!" "But did she know you were what shall I say? negotiating?" "She was in that stupid England. It wasn't a thing I could write to her about.
I could scarcely believe my eyes! "They may come in handy for you," she explained, "for, though you are a very learned tutor, you are a very stupid man. More than two thousand francs, however, I am not going to give you, for the reason that, if I did so, you would gamble them all away. Now good-bye.
She had nothing more to say, but he felt it her due that he should add something while yet he held her. "As for poor Francis I know that I was absurd I admit it frankly." He felt her shake and guessed her indignation. "You'll believe me, dear. You know I don't like owning myself a fool." Then she had looked up, still in his arms "Why should you be so stupid? How can you possibly be?
Tom had been in a policeman's hands many a time, and out of them too, what is more; and he would have been ashamed to face his friends for ever if he had been stupid enough to be caught by an old woman; so he doubled under the good lady's arm, across the room, and out of the window in a moment. He did not need to drop out, though he would have done so bravely enough.
I only said, "When in the evening the round full moon gets entangled among the branches of that <i>Kadam</i> tree, couldn't somebody catch it?" The moon is ever so far from us, how could anybody catch it?" I said, "Dâdâ how foolish you are! When mother looks out of her window and smiles down at us playing, would you call her far away?" Still said, "You are a stupid child!
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