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The same female bard descended, possibly, from those terrible old Scalds who seem to have existed for the express purpose of addling the brains of mankind when they begin to investigate languages made a standing pretence which greatly assisted in forcing me back to a number of hideous places that I would by all means have avoided.
"You now play tricks on me, do you? I'm sent to the roundabout and told that you never came here, and yet all the while here you are, addling your silly brains."
Because, you know, when you get scared that way, and it keeps running on, and getting worse and worse all the time, and your wits gets to addling, and you get to doing all sorts o' wild things, and by and by you think to yourself, spos'n I was a boy, and was away up there, and the door ain't locked, and you " She stopped, looking kind of wondering, and then she turned her head around slow, and when her eye lit on me I got up and took a walk.
On the soil which my ancestors reclaimed from the sea they founded their homes and sowed grasses and cereals. But ere long a dire calamity came over the land, for at the command of the revengeful Neptune his mermaids spewed sea-foam into the river's fresh water addling it with their fish-tails into a nasty brine.
There the girl, her head pillowed on the treasure bag, napped uneasily, while Kirkwood plodded restlessly to and fro, up and down the platform, communing with the Shade of Care and addling his poor, weary wits with the problem of the future, not so much his own as the future of the unhappy child for whose welfare he had assumed responsibility.
At Mauleverer, at this tranquil afternoon hour, while those rooks were sailing so calmly high above her head yonder belated butterfly fluttering so happily over the feathery grasses all nature so full of rest they were grinding away in the hot schoolroom, grinding at the weekly geography lesson, addling their brains with feeble efforts to repeat by rote dry-as-dust explanations about the equator and the torrid zone, latitude, longitude, winds and tides, the height of mountains, the population of towns, manufactures, creeds; not trying in the least to understand, or caring to remember; only intent on getting over to-day's trouble and preparing in some wise to meet the debts of to-morrow.
That's the trouble now....But in the most perfect state some would be watching out for their chance, just because the old Adam was too strong in spite of the fact that all the old reminders had disappeared." "More likely they'd all murder one another because they were some ten thousand times more bored than that poor little group whose brains you are addling."
"Madame," he said, "at the worst we can shut our gates and fling defiance at them. We are well-manned, and Fortunio is seeking fresh recruits." "Seeking them, yes," she sneered. "For a week has the fellow been spending money like water, addling the brains of half Grenoble with the best wine at the Auberge de France, yet not a single recruit has come in, so far." Marius laughed.
And when I enquired the reason thereof, "Poor little victims," she answered, "what is the use of addling their brains with such a cart load of lessons, one more silly than another.
If you have any doubt as to which dance is yours, you'd better ask the lady, she'll feel flattered. Leaving him to do his own addling I went to find my coat, I panted to get into the open air; as for dancing I felt that I loathed it. Just as I neared the cloak-room someone stopped me. It was Dora Grayling. 'Have you forgotten that this is our dance? I had forgotten, clean.
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