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A singular fruit, we thought, of our shaggy democracy, as interesting a phenomenon in that regard as it has been our fortune to encounter. Where is the rudeness of a new community, the pushing vulgarity of an imperfect civilization, the licentious contempt of forms that marks our unchartered freedom, and all the other terrible things which have so long been the bugaboos of European refinement?
But he was becoming impatient for release, though, all in all, he had not found the confinement intolerable or even very irksome. His character was philosophic, his imagination calm; no bugaboos came to trouble him. When the boys closed the door upon him, he made himself comfortable upon the floor and, for a time, thoughtfully chewed a patent-leather slipper that had come under his hand.
I had mentioned my boyish terror of bears, wolves, and other bugaboos of childhood, and Sam responded with his yarn. Here it is, just as he told it: "She was a menagerie ship Noah's Arks, as we called them.
In a few moments he was by the side of Alice. They lounged lazily along through the beautiful forest a few paces behind Rose, who was too much afraid of bugaboos to allow herself to get far away from her mistress. There was a chill in the atmosphere and now and then a fitful gust of icy wind from the northwest.
As he went waddling down the road, snapping through an ice-crust at every step, a roguish wind or perhaps it was one of the bugaboos that were known to haunt the shores of Gravesend Bay snatched off his hat and rolled it into the very doorway of the tavern that he had been warned, under terrible penalties, to avoid.
There's the deuce and all on 'Change just now, and the billiard tournament's begun at the Club. My days and nights are full up. Once a week is all she should expect, I think." "No matter what you think or what she expects, you must do as I say." "Why?" "Because I don't like the looks of things." "Oh, rubbish! You're always seeing bugaboos. Uncle Hayseed is pacified, isn't he?
Ramos turned slightly pale, while he fixed on Dona Perfecta a strange look in which terror and respect were blended. "Yes, man; don't look at me in that way. You know already that I am not afraid of bugaboos. Do you want me to speak plainly to you now? Well, you are a coward." Ramos, moving about restlessly in his chair, like one who is troubled with the itch, seemed greatly disturbed.
If you are not afraid of bugaboos neither am I afraid of goblins. What do you think is going to get a big fellow like me?" "Why," said Edna at once becoming serious, "I will tell you; I heard some college boys talking back there by the edge of the woods." "You did? and what did they say?" "They said: 'We'll nab him as he comes out, boys." "Humph! What did they look like?
Robertson said, 'no harm has been done. Of course I shall tell papa and Cousin Sophy that I met and talked to Mr. Houghton. What if I did? He was introduced to me just as the others were, and what do I care for him? He was a very agreeable Vandal, and I'm glad to have had a chance to see what Vandals are like. As with other bugaboos they lose their terrors under close inspection."
Congress vanishes; Kaiser is left solitary, with the shadow of Pragmatic Sanction, in the night of things. Pause of an awful nature: but Fleury does not hasten with the Apanage, as promised. Whereupon, at length, Nevertheless, if they were only bugaboos, and mere Shadows caused by Imperial hand-lanterns in the general Night of the world, ought they to be spoken of in the family, when avoidable?
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