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"And in any small difficulty send for Cousin Ann," Mrs. Carey went on. "The mere thought of her coming will make me toe the mark, I can tell you that!" was Gilbert's rejoinder. "Better than any ogre or bug-a-boo, Cousin Ann is, even for Peter!" said Nancy. "And will my Peter-bird be good and make Nancy no trouble?" said his mother, lifting him to her lap for one last hug.
But like a bug-a-boo it had gone. And this good, safe man had become transformed in this amazing intimacy and had become a wild delight: a man to laugh at, tease, provoke, and cling to, silent, in a flame; a man to mother, study out, probe into deep with questions; a man to plan and plan with. "This love is to be the love of his life!
When examined with the lenses of linguistic science, the "Bogie" or "Bug-a-boo" or "Bugbear" of nursery lore turns out to be identical, not only with the fairy "Puck," whom Shakespeare has immortalized, but also with the Slavonic "Bog" and the "Baga" of the Cuneiform Inscriptions, both of which are names for the Supreme Being.
"But I had previously warned you," she said at last, very soberly. "You knew how impossible such a thought was; you were aware of my engagement." "Yes, and I also knew Le Gaire. All I hoped for was time, sufficient time for you to discover his character. He is no bug-a-boo to me any longer, nor shall any tie between you keep me from speaking.
I wonder if I have faced down the Goody-good Bug-a-boo. I speak for five million men. We are not improving people. We are not even trying to improve ourselves. Many of us started in on it once and the first improvement we thought of was not to try any more. It is a great deal harder to try to live. Few people want us to most people get in the way.
It's a very good thing, too," she added seriously, "because the real bug-a-boo of marriage is boredom, you know." "But how can two people bore each other when they are in love?" demanded Laura, almost indignant.
Th' masters keep th' state o' trade in their own hands; and just walk it forward like a black bug-a-boo, to frighten naughty children with into being good. I'll tell yo' it's their part, their cue, as some folks call it, to beat us down, to swell their fortunes; and it's ours to stand up and fight hard, not for ourselves alone, but for them round about us for justice and fair play.
It comes from living so much alone, and listening to the bug-a-boo stories of that Jenny of hers." She was so calm and so much above superstitious fears herself that I was almost ashamed to say how glad I had been of her Headingley Causeway proposition the night before, and turned off the conversation to something else.
He was made a bug-a-boo and worked for all he was worth by Bernstorff; and that's the whole story. We are as Anglo-Saxon as we ever were. If Hughes had had sense and courage enough to say: 'I'm for war, war to save our honour and to save democracy, he would now be President. If Wilson had said that, Hughes would have carried no important states in the Union.
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