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"We were not the dunces to suppose that this was a promised land, in which there were no giants to dispossess," replied Barnwell, in the same dignified manner. "Our fathers had to fight the Indians, and we are prepared to do the same." Sut Simpson had no patience with this sort of talk, and he threw up his head with an impatient gesture.
Here we thick-headed dunces hez been up dar to-day a-takin' de oath an' makin' bleve we's full grown men, an' here's you, dat knows more nor a ten-acre lot full on us, a lyin' here an' habin' no chance at all." "But you want to get de barn full, and can't afford to spend any more time," protested 'Liab. "Nebber you min' 'bout de barn. Dat's Nimbus' business, an" he'll take keer on't.
Either they say nothing, or they say everything; they are always at the two extremes, and announce themselves as dunces or blue-stockings. One wants the just medium, the dainty commingling of simplicity and wisdom that shall yet be pure womanly, and this is precisely the jewel 'far above rubies' that one cannot find. I've given up the search long ago, and am entirely resigned to my lot.
And there Milly had learnt all kinds of wonderful things she had learnt how to make mats out of paper, blue mats, and pink mats, and yellow mats, and red mats; she had learned how to make a bit of soft clay look like a box, or a stool, or a bird's nest with three clay eggs inside it; she had begun to add up and take away; and, above all, she had begun to learn geography, and Fräulein for Milly's mistress was a German, and had a German name was just now teaching her about islands, and lakes, and capes, and peninsulas, and many other things that all little girls have to learn about some time or other, unless they wish to grow up dunces.
And let us be tender and careful of children who are deprived of a mother: give them all the aid in our power, to make them a credit to their father's house." "And I think, my dear mother," said Elizabeth, "it will be necessary to fix children of weak capacities in one class: let all the dunces go together." "But we must first weigh their talents justly," returned Mrs.
Old Brooks, with his academy shut for holiday, stood at the Church corner with a pocket full of halfpence for his bairns, and a little silver in his vest for the naughty ones he had thrashed with the ferule and grieved for. "To be good and clever is to be lucky enough," he said; "I must be kind to my poor dunces." Some of them, he saw, went with his gift straight to Marget Maclean's.
It may seem surprising, that a GREAT DUNCE should be able to work upon a boy like an Archer, who was called a great genius; but when genius is joined to a violent temper, instead of being united to good sense, it is at the mercy even of dunces. Fisher was mortally offended one morning by De Grey's refusing to translate his whole lesson for him.
"Phelim," said the master, "I'll invert you a scarecrow for dunces. I'll lay you against the wall, with your head down and your heels up like a forked carrot." "But how will you manage that?" said Phelim. "What 'ud I be doin' in the mane time?" "I'll find a way to manage it," said the master. "To put my head down an' my heels up, is it?" inquired Phelim.
Watch them how they frame their speech, and make your translation accordingly, and they will understand it and know that some one is speaking German to them. For instance, Christ says: Ex abundantia cordis os loquitur. If I were to follow the dunces, I would have to spell out those words and translate: 'Aus dem Ueberfluss des Herzens redet der Mund! Tell me, would that be German?
Old Will keeps everything in its former state. They talked on of the old home, till the stern bitter look of regret and censure had faded from his brow, and given way to a softened melancholy expression. A fig for all dactyls, a fig for all spondees, A fig for all dunces and dominie grandees. 'How glad I am! exclaimed Guy, entering the drawing-room. 'Wherefore? inquired Charles.
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