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With wonderful tact she immediately put herself in unison with her surroundings; women alone can quickly become acclimated in a higher sphere. A man badly brought up always remains a booby. Any danseuse taken from the foot-lights of the Opera by the caprice of a great lord, can be made a fine lady.
In the evening groups sitting at the door, he may sometimes see with a sigh how wealth and the prince’s favour cause a booby to pass for a Solon, and be reverenced as such, while perhaps a poor neglected Camoëns stands silent at a distance, awed by the dazzling glare of wealth and power.
Lost, stolen, or strayed, Gone to the dogs or mislaid, Her Highness' splendid ruby. Whoso finds it wit or booby, Tinker, tailor, soldier, lord Let him ask what he will, he shall have his reward.
I walked on, assuming the gait of a booby, the true characteristic of my costume, and I stopped near the dancers.
"If you don't want to lose your money don't play high stakes, and if you are afraid of getting drunk, I'll watch that you don't take more than is good for you," he whispered to me. "But don't sit there like a booby." "I should be one if I followed your suggestions, for I have no taste for either gambling or drinking, and I do not want to get it," I answered, firmly. "Once for all, I will not go."
It is needless to say that Passepartout watched these curious ceremonies with staring eyes and gaping mouth, and that his countenance was that of the greenest booby imaginable. Unhappily for his master, as well as himself, his curiosity drew him unconsciously farther off than he intended to go.
I stood over her timorously and stared. The Countess put one knee upon the mattress and, leaning far over, kissed a little paw. I blinked, like a confounded booby. Then we stole out of the room. "Isn't she adorable?" asked the Countess when we were at a safe distance. "They all are," I said grudgingly, "when they're asleep." "You are horrid!"
"Sir," cried the Professor, sternly, "remind me to give you a severe caning to-night." "Yes, sir." "Well, booby, what have you got to say to it?" "Wittles!" shouted the Captain. "Right," cried the Professor, "only it would have been better expressed had you said Luncheon. Go up, sir; put yourself at the head of the class, and lead it to a scene of glorious festivity."
The man was perplexed, and knew not what to do. At last the booby did what he ought to have done at first forced the beer-seller to drive off his cart. But it is the fate of British officers of higher rank than this one, to think and act at last of that which they ought to have thought, and acted upon at first. They are no match for the yankees, in contrivance, or in execution.
Scapin was a livery servant, who spoke the dialect of Bergamo, a province proverbially abounding with rank intriguing knaves, who, like the slaves in Plautus and Terence, were always on the watch to further any wickedness; while Calabria furnished the booby Giangurgello with his grotesque nose.
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