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Updated: June 5, 2025
The scene in the second act, where Carlos is introduced by Isaac to the Duenna, stood, in its original state, as follows: "Isaac. Moses, sweet coz, I thrive, I prosper. "Moses. Where is your mistress? "Isaac. There, you booby, there she stands. "Moses. Why she's damn'd ugly. "Isaac. Hush! "Duenna. What is your friend saying, Don? "Isaac.
"If he does, you'll admit that he will hang on the gallows that he has built himself although intended for another. I'faith! He's not the first booby to be caught in his own springe. There is in this a measure of poetic justice. Poetry and justice! Do you know, Ruth, they are two things I have ever loved?" And he took a pinch of choice Bergamot. "Will you be serious?" she demanded.
"The streets are not too safe," he said. "In two hours or less, my lord, it will be midnight. And then " "Go, booby; do you think I am a child?" his master retorted angrily. "I've my sword and can use it. I shall not be long. And do you hear, men, keep a still tongue, will you?"
MR. CHILLINGLY GORDON. "If a man is such a fool and I don't say your son will not be a fool, Cousin Peter as to be influenced by the sound of his own name, and you want the booby to turn the world topsy-turvy, you had better call him Julius Caesar or Hannibal or Attila or Charlemagne."
The statue maintained its usual taciturnity, and the booby concluded, as it did not speak, it was all right, so he said, "The price is so-and-so; have the money ready by the time I come back, as I have to go on and buy some yarn for mother." On he went accordingly, and bought the yarn, and then came back to the statue. Some one passing by had in the meantime taken the linen.
Under cloak of confession and a most spotless conscience, a lady, enamoured of a young man, induces a booby friar unwittingly to provide a means to the entire gratification of her passion.
Honour; worthy Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Fitzpatrick, Mrs. Waters, Lady Bellaston, all are to the full as real. Lady Bellaston especially, deserves more than a word. Like Lady Booby in Joseph Andrews, she is not a pleasant character; but the picture of the fashionable demirep, cynical, sensual, and imperious, has never been drawn more vigorously, or more completely even by Balzac.
Una could not always follow her, but from her she caught the knowledge that the world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed, if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of clothes.
"Go in to school and learn your lessons, and mind the Doctor don't cane you." "What?" cried the tall, thin fellow, flushing up, as he advanced upon me menacingly, while the bell was rapidly getting toward its last strokes, "what's that you say?" "Go in and get to your lessons, and take that fat-faced booby with you." "Well!" cried Burr, "of all!" and he looked astounded. "That's it, is it?
Abel Newt bent in passing, Arthur Merlin, who felt, at the instant Abel passed, as if his own feet were very large, and his clothes ugly, and his movement stupidly awkward felt, in fact, as if he looked like a booby Arthur Merlin observed that his companion went on speaking, that she did not change color, and that her voice was neither hurried nor confused.
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