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She got away from the flat about ten o'clock, but on the steps outside met Condy dressed as if for bicycling, and smoking a cigarette. "I've got eleven dollars!" he announced cheerily. "But I thought it was ptomaine poisoning!" she cried with sudden vexation. "Pshaw! that's what the doctor says. He's a flapdoodle; nothing but a kind of a sort of a pain. It's all gone now.
The marine officer came on board very angry at being left behind, and talked about a court-martial on me for disrespect, and neglect of stores intrusted to my charge; but O'Brien told me not to mind him or what he said, "It's my opinion, Peter, that the gentleman has eaten no small quantity of flapdoodle in his lifetime." "What's that, O'Brien?" replied I; "I never heard of it."
The Protestants had him, but the Dissenters protested against his being given to an Anglican refuge. The scene at the mass-meeting to celebrate young Ginx's rescue from the incubus of a delusive superstition is described with rare appreciation of the foibles of character. The bombast, the cant, the flapdoodle and flubdub, the silly unction of different kinds of preachers are "done to a hair."
"Now rangers' reports," requested Thorne at the end of another busy period. "What, that flapdoodle?" cried Plant. "Nobody bothers much with that stuff! A man has to write the history of his life every time he gets a pail of water." "Do I understand your ranger reports are remiss?" insisted Thorne. "Lord, there they are. Wish you joy of them. Most of the boys have mighty vague ideas of spelling."
Doesn't care about the drops; a few more or less here and there make no difference." "Yes, sir," said Wilbur. Dave Cowan scanned the front of the house. The judge was not in sight. He went softly to lean above the parrot's cage and in low, wheedling tones, uttered words to it. "Flapdoodle, Flapdoodle, Flapdoodle!" screeched the parrot in return, and laughed harshly.
And he's as much of a fool as I was at his age! That keeps me fair to him. Well, he has stuff in him, that boy. He's as truthful as Edith; an appalling tribute, I know but you like it in a cub. And there's no flapdoodle about him; and he never cried baby in his life. And he has imagination and music and poetry! Edith is a nice little clod compared to him."
When he came to Eastbrook, he treated her as though she didn't exist." "And if Jim were cruel to her now, do you think she would go back to him?" I asked. Mary shook her head. "No, it's different now. If Jim were cruel to her, she would probably hate him all the more for it." "Proving the incomprehensibility of woman," I jeered. "Proving the flumdability of flapdoodle," Mary responded.
"You don't like the editorials," was the inference which Marrineal drew from this, and correctly. "I think they're solemn flapdoodle." "So do I. Occasionally I write them myself and send them in quietly. It isn't known yet that I own the property; so I don't appear at the office. Mine are quite as solemn and flapdoodlish as the others. To which quality do you object the most?" "Solemnity.
"'Matthew Arnold How to Know Him," he read. "Ah, yes! Ah, yes! But is he worth knowing?" "Oh!" exclaimed Winona, wincing. "No respect for God or man," mumbled the judge, meaning that a creature capable of calling him Old Flapdoodle could be expected to ask if Matthew Arnold were worth knowing. The Wilbur twin here thrust the blue jay upon his father with cordial words.
She might wake up to the fact that you're a mighty pretty young woman and suddenly become temperamental. She has a husband round the lot somewhere. Make him think his wife is a lucky woman. Here's all the dope introduction, expenses, and tickets. Train leaves at two-fifty. Run along home and pack. Remember, I want a page yarn. No flapdoodle or mush; straight stuff.
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