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Updated: May 12, 2025
Beecher was regarded as one of the most powerful champions of orthodox Christianity in the land of the pilgrims, and had the good fortune to be the father of a family whose members have become celebrated for their intellectual gifts. The most of these gave early promise of their future distinction, but the subject of this memoir was regarded as the dunce of the family.
An' I was thinkin' how like a dunce we are to live a life made up mostly of urrants an' feetache followin'. Yet, after all, the right sort o' urrants an' like that is life an', if they do ache, 'tain't like your feet was your soul. Well, an' just before the car come, up arrove the girl.
I shall play as much as I wish, and when I want to know about any new or curious thing, I shall consult my Cyclo, instead of bothering other people with questions, or giving it up like a dunce;" with which crushing reply Frank departed, leaving Jill to pack and unpack her treasures a dozen times, and Jack to dance jigs on the lids of the trunks till they would shut.
'I don't know that one ought to let talents rust, said Guy, thoughtfully; 'I suppose it is one's duty not; and surely it is a pity to give up those readings. 'I shall not get such another fellow dunce as you, said Charles, 'as I told you when we began, and it would be a mere farce to do it alone. I could not make myself, if I would.
Since, therefore, I love you as my own life and desire to please you, tell me, I pray, what sort of a husband you would like, what kind of a man would suit your fancy? Will you have him a scholar or a dunce? a boy, or man in years? brown or fair or ruddy? tall as a maypole or short as a peg? small in the waist or round as an ox? Do you choose, and I am satisfied."
Though from a maritime point of view, Tyre was perhaps the chief centre of conjunction for all the main streams of the world, from the point of view of literature and any other art, it was an admitted backwater. Take what art you pleased, Tyre was a dunce. Even to music, the most persuasive of the arts, it was deaf. Surely, of all cities, it had not been built to music.
She can't be very clever herself, if she thinks that, can she? Oswald was always a regular dunce!" "Oh, `dunce' is too strong a word, Chubby! He was not brilliant, but you must remember that he suffered from contrast with his companions. Rex was very bright, if he was not exactly clever, and it is not often that you come across such a really scholarly boy as Rob Darcy!"
She had her dancing-lessons, her drawing-lessons, and as much study of grammars, dictionaries, histories, geographies, and sciences-made-easy as was good for her, and every day showed her more and more what a dunce she was.
'Why, Lucy Snell, you poor prune, says I to myself, 'you're not having a good time. You're back in school, second grade, and the dunce of the class. That's what I was, too. A flat failure. And when I got to thinking of how Babe would take it when he found out Well, it got on my nerves so that I simply made a run for home. There!
For a fellow that's so smart at some things you are the biggest dunce I know, in others. Haven't we slept like lords ever since we struck this camp? I'm going to make my bed up again and turn in. I advise you to do the same." Adrian tossed the branches aside, then rearranged them, lapping the soft ends over the hard ones in an orderly row which would have pleased a housewife.
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