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Anything to break the monotony." "Didn't you get enough of the hangman's knot and the sandbag? Want more, eh? Well, if I wasn't so darned comfortable I'd come over there and give it to you. Now don't rile me!" "I deserve to be kicked for being such a blithering fool as to get into this mess. Come on and kick me." "You wanted to get a poke at the old man's eye, did ye?
In the privacy of the president's office Bobby read the briefest note of the many that his forethoughted father had left behind him in Johnson's charge: "You're a blithering idiot!" That was all. Somehow, that brief note seemed to lighten the gloom, to lift the weight, to remove some sort of a barrier, and he actually laughed. Immediately he called up the Ellistons.
I interrupted him and tried my best to insult him. "I don't want to be supported. I want to be cured. Not that any of them can do that. I simply can't and won't have another blithering idiot let loose at me. One's enough." I thought that would outrage Titherington and drive him from my room. But he made allowances for my condition and refused to take offence.
That's why he bought those rails from the old Laurel Creek spur! Oh, the sly young fox quoting that portion of our hauling contract which stipulates that all spurs and extensions of my road, once it enters Cardigan's lands, must be made at Cardigan's expense! And all to fool me into thinking he wanted those rails for an extension of his logging-system. Oh, what a blithering idiot I have been!
"We'll have a house-to-house collection," said Doyle, "till we get the money raised." "Don't be a blithering idiot, Doyle," said Dr. O'Grady. "How can you go round and ask people to subscribe to " "Gentlemen, gentlemen," said Father McCormack. "We must fall back upon the subscription list that was published in the Connacht Eagle," said the Major, "as well as I recollect we all promised "
But, if I don't do any more, I pledge you that I'll save you from Marlanx." "Oh, I know you will. You must, Truxton." "I'd I'd like to be sure that I am also saving you from Vos Engo. I hate to think of you throwing yourself away on one of these blithering, fortune-hunting noblemen." She pressed his arm again.
And you asked me afterward about that last batch. You said to me: 'Louis, you are sure that they are all quite gone? Remember that there is trouble in the possession of them! And I told you a lie!" Mr. Bundercombe coughed and poured himself out a little more of the coffee. "Louis," he declared, "you are a fool! You are a blithering idiot! You are a jackass! It never occurred to me before.
Maybe it's only a shanty with holes in the roof er, I mean, maybe you'll be disappointed with the lay-out! What's the blithering sense of being in such a consuming fever about moving the fiendish furniture? I'm certain you'll hate the very sight of this corn-crib out among the ant hills.
"My dear old boy," remarked the proud inventor vaguely, "it generally opens 'pon my soul, it does." He turned his torch on to the reluctant trench-board and examined it through his eyeglass. "By Jove! that's it, dear old son, there's the trouble. The dud shell has slipped forward and got wedged in the rafters. How doocid funny what?" "What is doocid funny, you blithering ass?"
"But I have a notion that we shall find a clue in this letter which, like a blithering fool, I left on Parrish's desk. It's the first glimmer of hope I've seen yet ..." Bruce Wright squared his shoulders and threw his head back. "I'll get it for you," he said. "Good boy," said Robin. "But, Bruce," he went on, "you'll have to go carefully. My name is mud in that house.
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