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Updated: May 27, 2025
Next morning, without any of the usual preliminary fiddle-faddle, without even asking for their baptismal certificate or requiring the consent of their parents, or obtaining a special license or dispensation, the magistrates send for a parson and splice them straight off. Only as man and wife are they permitted to pass through the city gates.
This is Sukkot, as they call it, and while it lasts, they do none of the king's service, for, they maintain, all work is forbidden them on these days. "In this way they waste the whole year with tomfoolery and fiddle-faddle, only in order to avoid doing the king's service.
'MILLE DIABLES! Are you aware, sir, that I am in possession of this house, and that no one harbours here without my permission? Guest? Hospitality? Bundle of fiddle-faddle! Lieutenant, call the guard! Call the guard! he continued passionately. 'Where is that ape of a sergeant? The Lieutenant rose to obey, but I lifted my hand. 'Gently, gently, Captain, I said. 'Not so fast.
I've got beyond all the dogma and fiddle-faddle of the intellect with which the church has overlaid the spirit, and all the ceremonial so useful and necessary for individual souls in early stages of development. I used to think if I could find a religion with no blood in it, I would embrace it.
I had to forget that I had read the "Kaiser von Geisersberg," and eschew the use of proverbs, which nevertheless, instead of much fiddle-faddle, just hit the nail upon the head, all this, which I had appropriated to myself with youthful ardor, I was now to do without: I felt paralyzed to the core, and scarcely knew any more how I had to express myself on the commonest things.
Sulpice had an old uncle on his father's side who proposed to his sister-in-law to give up his broad acres a fortune in themselves to Sulpice, if his nephew would consent to marry his daughter. Sulpice refused. He would not marry for money. "Fiddle-faddle!" cried his uncle. "Sickly sentimentality! If he cultivates that grain, my brother's son will not make much headway."
He twiddled the ring nervously as he said: "She has gone into Lenten Retreat at a Convent in Kensington. I arah! I do not think it would be advisable to disturb salutary and seasonable meditations with arah! worldly matters at this present moment." "Fiddle-faddle!" said the Dowager-Duchess sharply. Lord Castleclare lifted his melancholy arched eyebrows. "'Fiddle-faddle, my dear Constantia?"
To think of such foolish fiddle-faddle stopping a man of his acumen and strength! How on earth can one govern men if one is denied the use of money, that sovereign means of sway? And he laughed bitterly; for the idea of an idyllic country where all great enterprises would be carried out in an absolutely honest manner seemed to him the height of absurdity.
Yet instead of speeding up the curriculum in the early school years, we have introduced such important studies as social graces, baton twirling, interpretive painting and dancing, and a lot of other fiddle-faddle which graduates students who cannot spell, nor read a book, nor count above ten without taking off their shoes.
Of all the fiddle-faddle concerning passion probably none is more shudderingly admired than the notion that one possessed of an overwhelming desire for another longs to destroy that other. It is true there is a form of murderous mania that involves practically all the emotions, including of course the passions which are as readily subject to derangement as any other part of the human organism.
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