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Updated: June 19, 2025
No greater misfortune could have occurred both for Islam and for the world at large. For Islam it meant the rule of dull-witted bigots under which enlightened progress was impossible. Of course Islam did gain a great accession of warlike strength, but this new power was so wantonly misused as to bring down disastrous repercussions upon Islam itself.
"My dear cousin," said this dull-witted young lord, "I shall count the hours until you go to Spain. You will send me some 'touru', for I am very fond of it?" The King could not but find this reflection of his son very silly and out of place. But intelligence is neither to be given nor communicated by example.
This I most enjoyed doing in the spring, alone on the little strip of grass behind the Poor-house, in which I was the only child. Besides me there were but three old women 'being fed to death, as the peasants used to say. Two of my companions were blind, and the third was dull-witted and gazed ever straight before her.
No dull-witted person could ever have done what you have been doing lately. Major Fletcher himself told me that day we went to Farabad that it needed sharp wits to pose as a native among natives. He also said " She paused suddenly. "Yes?" said Lord Ronald. She glanced round at him momentarily. "I don't know why I should repeat it. It is quite beside the point.
And then as the last and best promise she said, "And you would still be saved, daddy; God in heaven would forgive your sins." But his eyes did not shine. He was looking down in a dull-witted way and merely muttered, "Yes, you're Rosa." Ah! now he knew her. The saints be praised, that was a big step forward.
The blunder was gross and palpable; and yet, with the unreflecting and dull-witted soldier, it did him service greater than all the subtilties of all the schools could have accomplished, and a service which subsisted to the end of the war.
And soon the dingy boat, loaded with its silvery spoil, became known to camps and cottages along the other shores. Poor old Neb was too dull-witted for business; but customers far from markets watched eagerly for the merry blue-eyed boy who brought fish, "still kicking," for their early breakfast, clams, chaps, and lobsters, whose freshness was beyond dispute.
Rising to my feet I held out the open tin to him. "You've been helping yourself while I have been asleep and I think you might as well take the last one," I muttered sarcastically. The phlegmatic sentry looked at me cunningly. His face lapsed into a broad grin. Growling "danker!" From this incident I discovered that even a thick-skulled, dull-witted German infantryman has a bump of humour.
Only three landing craft sank during the process, and within two weeks Simpson and Barton set bravely off with their dull-witted cohorts to tackle the swamp with a spanking new piece of equipment. At last the delays were over Of course, it took another week to get the actual dredging started.
The poor weavers who lived in the mountain village had all they could do to nourish wife and child. There was little left for the Poor-house. As I was already ill I could not stand the misery, and I was the first to die of the dreadful fever caused by hunger. Only one of the blind women, and the dull-witted one followed the sack in which I was buried for who would have paid for a coffin?
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