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No doubt the magic rose which Bulbo wore caused this infatuation on Angelica's part; but is she the first young woman who has thought a silly fellow charming? Giglio must go and sit by Gruffanuff, whose old face he, too, every moment began to find more lovely. He paid the most outrageous compliments to her: There never was such a darling Older than he was? Fiddle-de-dee!
The landlord sits down in an armchair, fills a long clay pipe slowly gloating over the books the while. Then he pulls one towards him and opens it, and begins to study it turning over the leaves backwards and forwards. His brows are knit and his lips move painfully. "Hex, little two up in the air, cross and a fiddle-de-dee. Lord! what a one he was for intellect!"
"Nay, I will take the lady's word for it," said the Grand Duke "though it grieves me." "We knew you would never give your consent," murmured the Baroness, "and without your consent I can not marry " "Undoubtedly," said the Grand Duke, "I would never have given my consent to such fiddle-faddle." "And we love each other." "Fiddle-de-dee!" said his Highness.
Von Finck, who attends most of the polite company at Baden, drove ceaselessly about the place that day, with the real version of the fainting-fit story, about which we may be sure the wicked and malicious, and the uninitiated, had a hundred absurd details. Lady Clara ever engaged to Captain Belsize? Fiddle-de-dee!
"Fiddle-de-dee!" said Peter as he helped himself to his thirteenth pinch. "Don't believe it. I'll sound her. I shan't say a word I'll just sound her." Peter stood with his back to the fire. Tommy sat at her desk, correcting proofs of a fanciful story: The Man Without a Past. "I shall miss him," said Peter; "I know I shall." "Miss whom?" demanded Tommy. "Danvers," sighed Peter.
And Maidstone's in danger, and the enemy not a mile off, and you stand SMOKING. Noel was standing crying, himself, or something very like it. 'It's quite true, Alice said. The Colonel said, 'Fiddle-de-dee. But the Cocked-Hatted Man said, 'What was the enemy like? We told him exactly. And even the Colonel then owned there might be something in it.
"It will be time enough to cry out if a highwayman does come to demand our purses, and we'll hope that the guard will shoot him dead before he has had time to open the door." "Oh! How dreadful!" shrieked out one of the ladies. "I would sooner let him have everything he asked for than see a handsome highwayman shot." "Fiddle-de-dee about a handsome highwayman," said Aunt Deb, in a scornful tone.
They're leaving almost at once." The old gentleman chuckled. "You've won the neighborhood's everlasting gratitude, sir! And did he promise to brace up in the country of his adoption?" "By proxy," Brent mumbled, at the moment carefully drawing a line. "But promises don't amount to a fiddle-de-dee. Men brace up when they want to. Have you seen Jane lately?" "Not for some days.
Perhaps we may meet once more in our rambles, when the question can be properly argued out." Kenelm lifted his hat, and turned on his heel. Before he reached the street, the sweet voice of the singer again smote his ears; but the only word distinguishable in the distance, ringing out at the close of the refrain, was "love." "Fiddle-de-dee," said Kenelm.
Martin gave in confidence to the mother. "Fiddle-de-dee!" said Camilla, when she was told of feelings, susceptibilities, and hysterics. At the present moment she had a claim to the undivided interest of the family, and she believed that her sister's illness was feigned in order to defraud her of her rights. "My dear, she is ill," said Mrs. French.
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