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She gazed at him, and mused on his affection and his whimsicality, and what the two would lead to in connection with her fate. And the old, scarlet-faced guard smiled fatuously at them both through the window on which glared a prominent "Engaged" as he had smiled on many another pair of fools so he silently dubbed them. Then they entered Bluebeard's Chamber and closed the door behind them.
The Easterners fatuously think, like Job, that they are the people, and wisdom will die with them. Some years since an article in the "Forum" on the theme, "Kansas more civilized than New York" conclusively proved the proposition to the satisfaction of the present writer at least.
With what admiration we beheld his masterful attack on the bacon and eggs! It became awe when we saw the quantity of marmalade that he spread upon his toast. And Mrs. Handsomebody beamed fatuously at him! Between mouthfuls he talked. "Do you remember how I used to call you Wiggie? And the time I hid the white rat in your bonnet box?" Mrs. Handsomebody cackled.
"I am not like you you Southerners. "You are asleep I have told you that you are that sleeping princess," he broke in, and following after as she turned away from him, he put a quick arm about her, and bending over her, tried to turn her about toward him. "Do you know how that little sleeping princess was awakened by her prince?" he murmured fatuously, bending closer.
"I'll make it thirty for a beginning." There was a momentary silence, for the lad had staked heavily and lost of late, but one or two more bets were made. Then the cards were turned up, and the lad smiled fatuously as he took up his winnings. "Now I'll let you see," he said. "This time we'll make it fifty."
You live for the moment. I'm anxious about the future. 'Oh, oh! You're quite wrong. It's not women who live for the moment, said Edith. 'No, I don't know that the average woman does. But then you're not an average woman. 'What am I? 'You're Edith, he answered, rather fatuously. But she liked it. She moved away. 'Now that's awfully mean of you, taking advantage of my wounded limb.
The frank, intent gaze of these eyes was very flattering and, in its ultimate effect, perilous, since it led you fatuously to believe that she had forgotten there were any other trousered beings extant. Later on you found this a decided error.
"You think I can get her?" said he, fatuously eager. "You think she likes me? I've been rather hoping that because it seized me so suddenly and so powerfully it must have seized her, too. I think often things occur that way." "In novels," said Jane, pleasantly judicial. "But in real life about the hardest thing to do is for a man to make a woman care for him really care for him."
Will you be that other?" She put this question as if she were proposing a commonplace human undertaking. Ferval in his confusion fancied that she was provoking him to a declaration. To grasp his receding reason he fatuously exclaimed: "Is this a Salvation Army fantasy?" With that she called out, in harsh resentment: "Not salvation for you!"
Voltaire's letters at this time show how hard he found it in the case of Rousseau to exercise his usual pity for the unfortunate. He could not forget that the man who was now tasting persecution had barked at philosophers and stage-plays; that he was a false brother, who had fatuously insulted the only men who could take his part; that he was a Judas who had betrayed the sacred cause.
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