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She left him, and he with no undue haste for the business, after all, was not his own began to follow out his train of thought, in manner much as follows: "This is that old Duncombe's writing 'Dunder-headed Duncombe, as he used to be called in his lifetime, but 'Long-headed Duncombe' afterward. None but his wife knew whether he was a wise man, or a wiseacre.
"Well, the one thing I really wanted to say, Piers you must let me say it I, for one, shall take a strong stand about your moral rights in this business here, Of course your claim is every bit as good as ours; only a dunder-headed jackass would see it in any other way. Daniel quite agrees with me. The difficulty will be that woman. A terrible woman!
They had but played their respective social parts, and accepted the gifts that the gods provided; while I dunder-headed dolt that I was had conducted myself worse than a budding school-boy who had but just donned swallow-tails, and made his first entry into society!
In a short time the conversation turned to the loss of the Onyx, and to the character of Paddy Adair. One said one thing of him, and one or two hazarded slightly disparaging observations. The bait took. "Oh, he was, I remember, always a foolish dunder-headed Irishman," observed Pigeon; "I could thrash a dozen such fellows as he was. No one thought anything of him at school, I remember."
He walked in, nodded to his friend the assistant, opened the safe, and put back the roll. "Now," he murmured, "if the old man has really been such a dunder-headed pump as not to open the packet all these years, what the devil can he know?
He couldn't have been merely a dunder-headed, impudent charlatan, who expected to convince by the miracles he didn't do?" "Oh, no; oh, no. I didn't mean to imply that," the Squire explained. "He was a cunning rascal in his way, and he had the sort of brain that has served the purpose of the imposter in all ages.
I suppose he'll want some one to clean his shoes and brush his clothes, and such little things, and I'd be proud for my Toby to do that," answered the dame. Now, I had always thought Toby Bluff to be a remarkably dunder-headed, loutish fellow, though strong as a lion, and with plenty of pluck in his composition.
Answer me that, thou dunder-headed English porker. Kick him out." And Ywar was kicked into the cold, while Thorold raged up and down his chamber in mantle and slippers, wringing his hands over the treasure of the Golden Borough, snatched from his fingers just as he was closing them upon it. That night the monks of Peterborough prayed in the minster till the long hours passed into the short.
No doubt the very most dunder-headed of lawyers or detectives would have told me that I was mad, thus deliberately to give all my good trumps away to the treacherous, hired scoundrel whom I had been hunting down with the dogged ferocity of a bloodhound. On principle, of course, I was all wrong, and I knew it; but still I went on.
"Why, you dunder-headed, go-to-meeting Methodist! Don't you know a Catholic priest when you see one?" "A priest? By Jove, so he is! Yes, I forgot; vow of chastity, and all that sort of thing. Well then, we'll be charitable and suppose the boy's his nephew." "What idiotic people!" Arthur whispered, looking up with dancing eyes.
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