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Do you think that that bothers me? No, I assure you; but it does not amuse me either. I go straight ahead, stupid as a cabbage and patient as a Berrichon. Nothing is interesting in my life except OTHER PEOPLE. Seeing you soon in Paris will be more of a pleasure than my business will be an annoyance to me. Your novel interests me more than all mine.
Maud is cut out for a poor man's wife, and would be blissfully happy living on twopence-halfpenny a week, and making it go as far as half a crown, but I am so stupid. My money seems to fly away, and I could not be economical if my life depended on it." Ned sighed, and looked round the garden with a wistful air. "I wish Maud were at home!" he said. "She is always so good and helpful.
"'Ah, I wish I'd never see you, she cried, 'you great, stupid creature! "'Come, said I, 'I was only an accident; it would have been just as bad if "As I spoke I heard a step behind me. Turning round, I found myself face to face with the young man with whom I had come in collision as I rushed through the hall. He gazed at the servant at me at the girl in blue.
She resented the slow stupid heavy movements of her father and mother, the movements she had imitated as a child. "Why was I not taught to be graceful and beautiful in mind and body, why in the place I came from did no one think it worth while to try to be graceful and beautiful?" she whispered to herself. How conscious of her own body Rosalind was becoming!
And then all of a sudden a bright thought struck me? and I made up my mind to be a boy!" "Made up your mind to be a boy?" "Yes, sir, for it was so easy! I wondered how I came to be so stupid as not to have thought of it before.
"And yet there is not a sovereign, not a Rothschild, who will understand this. Is it not possible that, after all, we, with our secret pretensions, should simply be stupid and insolent fools? "I am, like yourself, convinced of the ease with which Wagner and I should fit each other if only he would grease his wheels a little.
"You will think me very stupid," resumed the old lady after a slight pause, her face grown grave again, "but for weeks past, even before this happened, I've had such an odd sense of insecurity, a presentiment of trouble. I'm not given to feelings of that kind, which makes this one more noticeable. I can't explain it, but there it is a kind of foreboding that I can't shake off."
"Then let's forget. I was stupid. This is all too big and great for such smallness." She indicated the coming of the unearthly light. "Thy dawning, O Aton," Michael said. Margaret smiled. "He was very far from us at Assuan." "He was there. I stifled my consciousness of him, Meg." "Don't," she said. "Let's go forward." "I know what you mean," he said. "Regrets are weak, foolish."
How many murders can you remember in Paris restaurants, I mean smart restaurants?" M. Pougeot thought a moment. "There was one at the Silver Pheasant and one at the Pavillion and and " "And one at the Café Rouge. But those were stupid shooting cases, not murders, not planned in advance." "Why do you think this was planned in advance?" "Because the man escaped." "They didn't say so."
"Seems to me, Miss Panney," said the colored woman, "that 'twould be a mighty good thing for Mr. Hav'ley to get married. An' thar's that Miss Drane right thar already." "What stupid nonsense!" exclaimed Miss Panney. "I thought you had more sense than to imagine such a thing as that. She is not in any way suitable for him.
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