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Your experience of the everyday language of the common people may be that it is not poetical. True, but not even a poet can speak poetically in his stupid moments.
Besides, I feel as Teresa does that it is stupid and self righteous of us to continue to refuse to have anything to do with the Boy Scouts simply because they once offended us. Certainly I miss the opportunity to see Lance and Don now and then." Anxious to be out of the conversation, Louise Miller picked up a book of nature studies on the New England country, by John Burroughs, and began reading.
Never, never can the Methodists be successfully assailed, if not honestly, and never honestly or with any chance of success, except as Methodists; for their practices, their alarming theocracy, their stupid, mad, and mad-driving superstitions.
Because of the evil things which had been said of him by that stupid old Marquis whom he had been cheated into forgiving, he was not to be allowed to give a helping hand to his parishioner! Nevertheless, he acknowledged his wife's wisdom, tacitly, as is fitting when such acknowledgments have to be made; and he contented himself with endeavouring to find for her some other escort.
But Bee only says that when she has asked me some stupid date that nobody ever knows or ever did know except in a history class. The next day after our evening at the Orangerie, at half after eleven, we went to the Cathedral to see the clock. It only performs all its functions at noon, and as there is always a crowd of tourists about it, we went early.
In some other cases witnesses were very stupid could not tell in what month Christmas fell. One witness, an old woman, made an error, confusing January 16 with January 23. A document on which she relied gave the later date.
They do what they disapprove of, so as not to disobey the discipline of the school. I prefer to keep silent. They would find me cold or stupid; one might as well stay at home. You don't tell me of your mother; is she in Paris with her grandchild? I hope that your silence means that they are well.
But her father was in the library, with the door shut, and Mr Sherwood had gone out, notwithstanding the rain. The deserted room looked dreary, and she went to her own again. At six she went down to dinner. They were not a very lively party. Mr Seaton looked sleepy, and yawned several times before they went to the dining-room. Mr Sherwood was very grave, and, indeed, "stupid," as Gertrude thought.
There was always before her the distressing fear that he might have ceased, to care for her ay, that he might have gone so far as to transfer his affections to some one else as the result of her stupid notions concerning independence.
M. and A. Em-ma. Do you understand?" Understanding and gratification came together. It might be a very indifferent piece of wit, but Emma found a great deal to laugh at and enjoy in it and so did Frank and Harriet. It did not seem to touch the rest of the party equally; some looked very stupid about it, and Mr. Knightley gravely said,
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