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I have never seen the time since I came into the world when it was quite so hard to get things, or quite so easy to get rid of them, as it is now. Say the word, Henry, and I'll draw up the deed of gift." Henry looked confused. His eyes fell before the lawyer's sarcastic glance. "You are talking tomfool nonsense," he said, scowling. "The property isn't mine; it's my wife's."
Then he turned with a marked control upon himself. "Really, Lefevre," said he, "this is the queerest stuff I've heard for a long time! This is hallucination with a vengeance! I don't like to apply such a tomfool word to anything, but observe how all this has come about.
Have to be moving along if he wanted to get there some time that day. He wished he didn't have to go alone, so he did. The old lady would surely lay him out, and he wished for company to share his misery. Why couldn't Swing Tunstall have stayed reasonably in Farewell instead of traipsing off over the range like a tomfool. Might not be back for a week, Swing mightn't. Why hadn't he used his head?
They're the other half of a whole that we're half of, and don't you forget it! Why in the world should you think it funny for them to do this tomfool trick all winter and have nervous prostration all summer to pay for it? You'd lock up a man as a dangerous lunatic if he spent his life so.
Upon endeavoring to open it fully he sensed an obstruction in the back of it, so he unscrewed the mouthpiece and drew forth a ball of dirty, sour-smelling cotton waste. He gazed a moment in speechless wonder. Then: "I'll whistle that dirrty Tomfool, until he answers me in self-defense," he announced'to the main motor, and forthwith blew a mighty blast.
Smith's place, the iron gates of the driveway were not opened, because business obliged Mr. Smith to be in Europe. "Don't do that tomfool thing again!" the old man shouted, and Johnny, clasping his recovered ball, grinned at him. "He sinks Johnny 'f'aid," the little fellow told Miss Lydia. A month or two afterward Johnny threw a stone at the victoria and involuntarily Mr.
"What do you want to know?" said Lucas. He was lying in bed with the spring sunshine full upon him. His eyes were drawn a little. He had just undergone a lengthy examination at the hands of the great doctor. "Many things," said Capper, somewhat snappishly. "Chief among them, why your tomfool brother you call him your brother, I suppose? brought me over here on a fool's errand."
Black Jack had no call to be about my house, unless he was set there to watch; and it looked to me as if my tomfool word about the paint, and perhaps some chatter of Maea's had got us all in a clove hitch.
Black Jack had no call to be about my house, unless he was set there to watch; and it looked to me as if my tomfool word about the paint, and perhaps some chatter of Maea’s, had got us all in a clove hitch.
"No, I could not touch even that money. The beads were stolen." "Lord, Lord! Then there are three of us Cunningham, myself, and you!" "Are you calling me a tomfool?" "Not exactly. What's the feminine?" She laughed and rose. "You are almost human to-night." "Where are you going?" "I'm going to have a little talk with your father." "Good luck. I'm going to have a fresh pot of coffee.
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