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"That was only his excuse mere flap-doodle!" interrupted the pessimistic Jerrold. "He was foolin' you; he'd heard of suthin better! The idea of calling that affair an 'accident, or one that would stop any man who meant business!" Bray had become uneasily conscious. "What was the accident?" he asked. "A d d fool woman's accident," broke in the misogynist Parkhurst, "and it's true!
"Of course he would think it 'flap-doodle' except in a speech; but I repeat, I admire him. Think of it all. He was a poor Irish peer, with no wide circle of acquaintance, come of a family none too popular. He strikes out a course for himself a course which had its dangers, because it was original. He determines to become celebrated by becoming notorious first.
No one left me an income. So, I'm fighting for independence and that means for self-respect. Is self-respect sordid, Cyrilla!" And then Cyrilla understood in part, not altogether. She lived in the ordinary environment of flap-doodle and sweet hypocrisy and sentimentality; and none such can more than vaguely glimpse the realities. Toward the end of the summer Moldini said: "It's over.
"It's my opinion, Peter, that the gentleman has eaten no small quantity of flap-doodle in his lifetime." "What's that, O'Brien?" replied I; "I never heard of it." "Why, Peter," rejoined he, "it's the stuff they feed fools on."
The face of my mother, when I turn my eyes toward her, takes away all my strength. This is where our passion for not wanting to see the truth has taken us! Love of pretence and of flap-doodle. We are going to become a Poland, then a Spain. Then it will be the turn of Prussia who will be devoured by Russia. As for me, I consider myself a man whose career is ended. My brain is not going to recover.
He gets himself written up in the local papers here as the model warden warm-hearted and broad-minded, and all that flap-doodle! But if he had his way, you'd think you were back in the dark ages in this penitentiary.
"Of course he would think it 'flap-doodle' except in a speech; but I repeat, I admire him. Think of it all. He was a poor Irish peer, with no wide circle of acquaintance, come of a family none too popular. He strikes out a course for himself a course which had its dangers, because it was original. He determines to become celebrated by becoming notorious first.
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