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He knew his Charlotte better than the police did; and, besides that, during the past week he had quite made up his mind that the Prefect of Police was in some matters a blunderer. "I wonder how he tried to get her out," he meditated aloud. "Did she send me any message?"
The real Europe of his time was to him a closed book; and while Napoleon was well served in every other function of state, because he himself could assist and supervise, he was wretchedly betrayed in the matter of permanent gains by diplomacy, in which he was personally a blunderer and a tyro.
Oh, George Morley, I am a poor ignorant blunderer when presuming to exhort you as Christian minister; but in your own words I address you as man and gentleman, you declared that 'thought and zeal should not stammer whenever I said, Keep your promise. I say it now Keep faith to the child you swore to me to befriend!" "I will go-and at once," said George, rising. "But be not sanguine.
Your grandfather had a business worth not much, but it was a business, and the fundamental thing is to have machinery to work with when you start life. I had that. My father was narrow, contracted and a blunderer, but he made good in a small way." "And you in a big way," said Carnac, with admiration and criticism in his eyes.
Indeed, he rated himself as an abject blunderer and thought he saw how a great overwhelming fear, at the bottom of his worship of Chris, had been the only true note in all that past war of emotions. But he had refused to listen and pushed forward; and now he stood thus. Looking back in the light of his defeat, his previous temerity amazed him.
And I must here warn the moralizing blunderer of two errors that he is too likely to make: 1st, That he is invited to read some extract from a licentious amour, as if for its own interest; 2d, Or on account of Donna Catalina's memoirs, with a view to relieve their too martial character.
It is also partly explainable by the absence in Prussia of an old tradition of refinement and culture. As Bismarck once said cynically and frankly to Thiers: “Mon cher ami! The Prussian, therefore, in diplomacy is a blunderer and a bully. He has the art of making himself unpleasant. And he seems to enjoy doing so.
Sinned?" he said. "Why, little one, what can a child like you know of sin? 'Tis only some blunderer like myself who should speak its damnable name." "Nay, nay! Oh, no! No! No! Not on you is there one lightest touch, M'sieu, but on me, me me does rest the weight of all!" Her eyes were wide and full of tears, and McElroy laid a weak hand on her head.
A coarse butchery a wholesale slaughter was received by this association with raptures; a pale-eyed, orange-haired blunderer, with a ship carpenter's mallet hidden under his coat, was hailed as an artist. "You don't find Poe wasting time on uncouth monsters who roar like tigers, bang doors and smear whole rooms with blood.
Remember, my dear child, that I am an old bachelor with seventy years behind me last Christmas, and remember also my natural limits. I am not so old, nevertheless, that I cannot wish you God-speed in all your undertakings. Your affectionate godfather, G. L. My Dear Godfather, What a blunderer I am! What deplorable want of tact!
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