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Now there is no cannon that can vie in force with even the smallest volcano." "Hurrah!" cried Ardan, delighted at his success; "just imagine the pleasure of sending our letters postage free! But oh! what a splendid idea! Dolts that we were for not thinking of it sooner!" "Let us have the splendid idea!" cried the Captain, with some of his old acrimony.
"Yea," said he, "and shall they who see themselves robbed worship the robber? Then indeed shall men be changed from what they are now, and they shall be sluggards, dolts, and cowards beyond all the earth hath yet borne. Such are not the men I have known in my life-days, and that now I love in my death."
He perceived rather too late in the day that he had a rival in this handsome young fellow. "Heaven send that Lucien might meet with better treatment than he had done," such was the matter of M. du Chatelet's discourse. "The Court was less insolent that this pack of dolts in Angouleme. You were expected to endure deadly insults; the superciliousness you had to put up with was something abominable.
They made haste to finish the two little ships which they had been building, and on the 8th of December they set sail. As they went they flung taunts at those who stayed behind, calling them fools and dolts and other scornful names, and threatening them with all manner of punishments should they refuse them free entrance to the fort on their return.
"And his Honour cannot read the riddle any more than you yourself, René," quoth Mademoiselle de Savenaye, composedly from her corner; "and, as for me, I can give no explanations until I am a little warmer." "Why, truly," exclaimed Sir Adrian, striking his forehead, "we are a very pair of dolts!
There was a loud report; a ball whizzed past, and we heard a cry of "In the king's name!" For answer we discharged our pistols almost at point-blank distance, and a horse rolled over heavily with its rider. "One down!" cried Jacques in triumph, drawing his sword and aiming a desperate blow at the leader, who called out "The boy! Capture the boy! Shoot his horse, you dolts!"
And as he descended the winding stairs of the courts: "A fine rabble of asses and dolts these Parisians!" he muttered between his teeth; "they come to hear a mystery and don't listen to it at all! They are engrossed by every one, by Chopin Trouillefou, by the cardinal, by Coppenole, by Quasimodo, by the devil! but by Madame the Virgin Mary, not at all.
"He is president of the club; the pet of women; the admired of all the dolts and gawks who are taken with his style, his easy laughter, and his knack at getting at men's hearts. He won't laugh so easily when he's up before a jury for murder; and he'll never again fool women or bulldoze men, even if they are weak enough to acquit him of this crime. Enough of the smirch will stick to prevent that.
We, on the contrary, order you to assume our rags, our patois, our terms of intimacy. Don the carmagnole and tremble; become rustics and dolts, and prove your civism by the absence of all education." This is true to the letter.
Conrad laught aloud and scornfully, while he said: "Clownish dolts, don't thrust in your tongues, when people are debating about matters of art and science; stick to your straw and your chaff; they are things you are better skilled in handling.
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