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Listen to me, and I'll see if I can't knock some sense into your little addled head. In the first place the Earl of Westport and my father were old friends and companions-in-arms in the service of the French king, and I came over from Ireland especially to take a dying message and a token from my father to the Earl.
He also repeatedly screamed: 'It is under my foot! It is moving, moving, moving out." "Got it, by God!" cried the Colonel, suddenly smiting his forehead with violence. "Of course! Fool! Fool that I am! Merciful God in Heaven it's her boy and I have saved him! Her boy! And I've been cudgelling my failing addled brains for months, wondering where I had seen his face before.
"All this trouble ez I hev hed along o' Nate Griggs hev mighty nigh addled my brains." The name recalled his resolve. "I'll git even with him, though. I'll git even with him yit," he reiterated as he plodded on heavily down the path, his mind once more busy with all the details of his discovery, his misplaced confidence, and the wreck of his hopes.
The wife's advisers, I mean, says Bloom. Then he starts all confused mucking it up about mortgagor under the act like the lord chancellor giving it out on the bench and for the benefit of the wife and that a trust is created but on the other hand that Dignam owed Bridgeman the money and if now the wife or the widow contested the mortgagee's right till he near had the head of me addled with his mortgagor under the act.
Rayburn's fancy was mightily tickled by this performance in which El Sabio and Pablo and I had engaged though Young evidently thought it but another proof of the addled state of my brains when I told about it that evening as we all sat smoking comfortably in my library before the open fire.
As for himself, in his absurd attire and bound upon his ambiguous errand, he was all out of the picture horribly suggestive of an addled sparrow who had stayed up all night on purpose to cheat some legitimately early bird out of a chimerical first worm....
What can they think is the matter with him?" said she to the old nurse. "That his wit's just addled; may be wi' unbelief and heathenry," quoth she. "Then why can't they say so?" And the heaven, and the sea, and the rocks, and the vales re- echoed "Why indeed?" But the doctors never heard them.
I've pondered the situation until my brain is addled like a last year's nest egg, and finally I've come to you as a last resort. If you can't cook up an airtight scheme, then there is no help; and I'm going to forget the Bavarian and attend to some business more profitable and less debilitating." "There must be an out, Gus. It's too good a thing to abandon.
"I know nothing about that," said Sancho; "all I know is it will be my bad luck that through not finding this head my county will melt away like salt in water;" for Sancho awake was worse than his master asleep, so much had his master's promises addled his wits.
"What is the matter now?" Eugene inquired of Sylvie. "Lord! everybody is going about his business, and that has addled her wits. There! she is crying upstairs. It will do her good to snivel a bit. It's the first time she has cried since I've been with her." By the morning, Mme. Vauquer, to use her own expression, had "made up her mind to it."
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