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I acted on the impulse of the moment, without thinking. I'm always doing something unnecessarily foolish, you know." "The driver of the car would more likely have dodged into the child," she returned warmly. "And it was fortunate that some one in all that stupid crowd could act without taking time to think. Everybody says so.
None of them are too bright or too stupid, only one of them is really selfish, all but one or two are thoroughly sorry for their faults when they commit them, and all of them who are good for anything think of themselves very little. There are a few who are approved members of the Harry Wadsworth Club.
I went to see the two charming cousins, and I found the young officer with Mdlle. F in the room by the garden. Q , who was in the garden. I greeted her politely, and said I had come to apologize for a stupid blunder which must have given her a very poor opinion of me. "I guess what you mean, but please to understand that my brother gave me your message in perfect innocence.
Up at six o'clock; a cup of coffee and a piece of bread; then the monotonous sorting of letters and papers the ceaseless answering of stupid questions; then half an hour for dinner; then the routine again till train time, and home to the mother and the two chairs by the fire, only to begin the dreary tread-mil! again the next morning.
The American deer in the wilderness, left to himself, leads a comparatively harmless but rather stupid life, with only such excitement as his own timid fancy raises. It was very seldom that one of his tribe was eaten by the North American tiger. For a wild animal he is very domestic, simple in his tastes, regular in his habits, affectionate in his family.
Whether it was on Thursday or Friday, I knew not then, but I was lifted off the bed, and taken before somebody something passed, but the fever had mounted up to my head, and I was in a state of stupid delirium. Strange to say, they did not perceive my condition, but ascribed it all to abject fear of death. I was led away I had made no answer but I was free.
'It is so stupid of me to be always poorly, and making mamma anxious when there's nothing the matter with me.
Molly's answer made her realize even more than before the fine, true heart of her little Kentucky cousin, and her regret was very great that Molly was not to become the bride of her son. "Ah, my boy, how stupid we have been!
Sybil. "Stupid England!" Gatty. "Stupid England. I did not say stupid England, did I?" "Yes, Gertrude, you did." Gatty. "Then, Sybil, I am very sorry. England is anything but stupid. It's a glorious place. It's a delectable place. It's a place that if any one dared to say a word against it, I really think I should feel very much inclined to " Sybil. "Well! What?"
Lilac was packing the things that had been used into her basket, and glanced at him now and then with her thoughts full of what she had just heard. Her opinion of Peter had changed very much lately. She had found, since her first conversation with him, that in many things he was not stupid but wise.
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