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For many days past, there have been tokens of the coming Carnival in the Corso and the adjacent streets; for example, in the shops, by the display of masks of wire, pasteboard, silk, or cloth, some of beautiful features, others hideous, fantastic, currish, asinine, huge-nosed, or otherwise monstrous; some intended to cover the whole face, others concealing only the upper part, also white dominos, or robes bedizened with gold-lace and theatric splendors, displayed at the windows of mercers or flaunting before the doors.
But when a heavy, soaking pour of summer rain brought the ground into fencing condition, I noticed that he could handle the spade with a strength and dexterity rarely equalled within my observation. "You're a Catholic are n't you, Rory?" I speculated, one evening, struck by the simple piety of some asinine remark he had made. A startled look of remonstrance and deprecation was his only reply.
The chief attraction wass to be a "Kween Karnation" and her maids of honor, the latter consisting of the most beautiful young ladies of the various Missouri towns. I infer from the dispatches that Halliwell was made lord high executioner of the "Karnival" at least accorded ample space in which to wildly wave his asinine ears.
"I was not thinking of you," she told him reproachfully. "I am sorry, Julien. I should not have said that." "It was the truth," he confessed, "absolutely the truth. Still, I have never blamed Mrs. Carraby for my disasters. It was my own asinine simplicity. Tell me, when shall I see you again? I think I ought to leave you here." She laughed. "You want to know about my interview with mother?
There was to be an end of that wretched torture of Latin and Greek theme-making and versifying, and that dreary toiling amid obsolete subtleties of scholastic Logic and Metaphysics, which he had denounced in a previous passage, and which had made University Education, he says, nothing better than "an asinine feast of sow-thistles and brambles."
He placed the glass on the little table by his side, and looked at it. What an asinine act, this pouring of poison into the stomach to cure a malady of the soul! He smiled cynically and suddenly recalled something the doctor was fond of repeating. "My boy, I'm rich so long as there are millions of people in the world poorer than I am." Perhaps there was an antidote better than this poison.
He and Rush had commented on the difference as they drove in to-day. "Oh, Rush came in with you, did he?" she observed. He flushed and stammered over the admission and it was easy to guess why. The fact that her brother, as well as Wallace, was lurking in the background somewhere waiting for results gave an official cast to his call that was rather asinine. She came to the rescue.
All of which Adams, substituting friendly frankness for the disciplinary traditions of the service, set forth in good Bostonian English for the benefit and behoof of his chief, and was answered according to his deserts with scoffings and deridings. "I wasn't born yesterday, Morty, and I'm not so desperately asinine as you seem to think," was the besotted one's summing-up.
"I suppose experience should have taught me," began Horton, slowly, "that the most asinine thing in the world is to try to lecture you, Drennie. But there are times when one must even risk your delight at one's discomfiture." "I'm not going to tease you this morning," she answered, docilely. "I like the horse too well and, to be frank, I like you too well!" "Thank you," smiled Horton.
"He praises me, THEREFORE he acknowledges me to be right" this asinine method of inference spoils half of the life of us recluses, for it brings the asses into our neighbourhood and friendship.
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