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" I thought: The Queen has come to her coronation." One's own stupid self is so perverse! Of course I meant to thank him for his silent help the night before, but I asked with a rush of nervous confusion: "You were you there?" I could have suffered torture sooner than own that I had seen him. "Were you there, Ned?" repeated Milly, blundering into the room. "Why, we didn't see you."
"We are leading our usual quiet life here," she wrote, "with the ordinary round of tennis parties and picnics to enliven us. The children have all been wonderfully well, and I think you will see a great improvement in your god-daughter when you next come to stay with us" "Oh dear!" sighed Mrs. Milton-Cleave, "how dull and stupid I am to-night! I can't think of a single thing to say."
His view of "Macbeth," though attacked and derided and put to shame in many quarters, is as clear to me as the sunlight itself. To me it seems as stupid to quarrel with the conception as to deny the nose on one's face. But the carrying out of the conception was unequal. Henry's imagination was sometimes his worst enemy.
"Oh! indeed," said Mr Black, in quite an altered tone, as he rose and politely offered his visitor a chair. "But," continued Mr Jack, rebuttoning his greatcoat which he had partly opened, "but, sir, I have changed my mind, and bid you good-day." So saying, he went out, leaving Mr Black standing at the door in stupid amazement and his dirty clerk agonising with suppressed laughter behind his desk.
Rutherford had left the yard except to go into the house." "No, my dear; but you remember Dick Kirby came over just after dinner, and he would not ask any better fun than to fix all that." "Humph!" said I, "men are not so stupid, after all." Edward looked more amused than flattered, which shows how conceited men are.
I had once thought of standing for Lansmere myself, thought of it very lately. The country wants men like me, I know that; but I have an idea that I had better see to my own business. The country may, or may not, do without me, stupid old thing that she is! But my mill and my new engines there is no doubt that they cannot do without me.
Anyway, what temper he had not left at Laguna he scattered sulphurously on the rocks before he reached the crest of Acoma; and when he had climbed the perilous way, he was too fatigued to go on through the town. The whole episode is typically characteristic of our stupid short-sightedness as a continent to our own advantage.
Oh, dear Van! have you the courage? I look at me you know the home I go to, and and I think of it here as a place to be happy in. What have our marriages done for us? Better that we had married simple stupid men who earn their bread, and would not have been ashamed of us! And, my dearest, it is not only that. None can tell what our temptations are.
Once upon a time there lived a respectable young tailor called Labakan, who worked for a clever master in Alexandria. No one could call Labakan either stupid or lazy, for he could work extremely well and quickly when he chose; but there was something not altogether right about him.
But " and again she gave that fleeting glance of allegiance to the child. He tried impatiently to pull himself together. She must see there was something hideous in his inability to make her safe, something stupid, also. "Tira," he said, "you don't understand. Sometimes I think you don't realize what might happen to you. And it's silly to let it happen, foolish, ignorant.
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