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Updated: May 11, 2025
The arrogance of men! she thought as she hung her transformation Pompadour coiffure on the looking-glass. How cool, how unshaken in their conviction of superiority, in spite of all deference, courtesy, pretence of consideration for Queen Dolt.... But she would show them all one of these days, what could be achieved by a unit of the despised majority....
The physical effect of it on Hilda was nearly overwhelming. The terrible and sublime words seemed to surge upon her charged with all the multitudinous significance of the crowd. She was profoundly stirred, and to prevent an outburst of tears she shook her head. "What's the matter?" said Edwin Clayhanger. "Clumsy dolt!" she thought. "Haven't you got enough sense to leave me alone?"
A Venetian noble might be a fribble or an assassin, a scoundrel, or a dolt, worthless, or worse than worthless; yet he might have sat to Titian, and his portrait may be inestimable, a few inches of painted canvas a thousand times more valuable than a man with his veins and muscles, brain, will, heart, and intellect!
Coyne had taken his departure the pair sat a long while in silence, their solitary candle flickering an the table between them. "You spoke out very bold," said Mr. Adams at length. "Did I?" said Mr. Jope. "I didn't feel it." "What cuts me to the quick is the thought o' them adders outside." "Ye dolt! There ain't no real adders outside. They're what the chap invented to frighten the women." "Sure?
Adolphe is accused and convicted of having foolishly lost one hundred thousand francs, without an object in view, like a dolt, and without having consulted his wife. Caroline advises her friends not to marry. She complains of the incapacity of men who squander the fortunes of their wives. Caroline is vindictive, she makes herself generally disagreeable. Pity Adolphe! Lament, ye husbands!
"Welcome back to my poor home, Senor!" she exclaimed. "I knew that you were coming, and am glad to see you; but that dolt Arima enraged me, for he brought you by the secret way, although he knew that it is forbidden to reveal that way, or even the fact of its existence, to strangers.
The first thing anybody's got to learn in this world is to respect their parents." Joel wanted to say: "I should think that depended on the parents." But, of course, he kept silent, as the young usually do when they hear the old maundering, and he gave up as he heard the stupid dolt returning to his old refrain: "I left school when I was twelve years old.
"Look at that fool," said Mary, "he thinks his horse as great a dolt as himself. Chris, Chris," she screamed through her hands "you sodden ass; be quieter with the poor beast soothe him, soothe him. He doesn't know what you want of him with your foul temper and your pole going like a windmill about his ears."
'Was such an absolute Booby necessary to the purpose? 'I know what I am doing. He is no such dolt as you suppose. 'A genius, perhaps? 'You sneer, perhaps; and you take a lofty air upon yourself perhaps! But I tell you this: when that young fellow's interest is concerned, he holds as tight as a horse-leech. When money is in question with that young fellow, he is a match for the Devil.
"No, not exactly. I'm interested in the place now I manage it without that dolt Lambarde, and Hythe isn't too far for the phaeton if I want to See Life. Besides, I haven't quite got over the thrill of not being in debt and disgrace" he threw Martin a glance which might have come from a rebellious son to a censorious father. "But sometimes I wish there was less Moated Grange about it all.
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