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Most of them are so milk-and-water, and the rest are so deep, they're always fancying a man means something. Why, last spring we cut Lord Adolphus Fitz Flummery, of OURS, just because he made a fool of himself, dangling after the girls." "But don't gentlemen ever speak to an unmarried lady in England?" "The saps do but not your knowing ones.
To see a man of Paine's clear sense and simple tastes pleased by such flummery as this shows us how difficult it is not to be affected by the spirit of the generation we live with. How could he have supposed that the new heaven upon earth of his dreams would ever be constructed out of such pinchbeck materials? It was now the year 1. of the Republic.
Some theologian once spoke of God as "the friend behind phenomena"; that Anglican deity had been rather a vague flummery behind court and society, wealth, "respectability," and the comfortable life.
The Pasha pointed to his men, and motioned towards the boat where forty or fifty others showed. "Bosh, Pasha! That's no reason. That's flummery, and you know and the Highness knows it. That would have been all very well in the desert, but this is not the desert, and I'm not doing business with the Highness any more. What's the penalty if I don't go?"
"Stow that flummery," cried Jorrocks, putting his hands before his face, under pretence of blushing at the compliment; but Doolan took no notice of him further, proceeding with his yarn.
'Robbin' the nets, you spalpeen; if you throw them salmon you're hidin' undher your coat into the wather, be the tare-o-war 'What salmon, Sir? interrupted the lieutenant. 'Why, salmon's not in season, Sir. 'None iv yer flummery, you schamin' scoundrel; but jest come here and give yourself up, for so sure as you don't, or dar to stir an inch from that spot, I'll blow you to smithereens!
But please your worship, it pleased God to take away the use of my left arm; and since that I have never been able to work. Land. Flummery! flummery! Just. Mrs. Bustle, I have desired silence, and I will have it, that's poz! You shall have your turn presently. Just. But what? Proceed, pray, to the point. Old M. But last night I slept here in town, please your worship, at the "Saracen's Head."
Now, although she had sold all her butter and cream, she could neither pay her rent, nor have any buttermilk with her rye bread and flummery. "Dry your tears and take comfort," said the tall lady in the green peaked hat. "Here is money enough to pay your rent and buy another cow." With that, she sat down at the round table near the peat fire.
But ribbon on sandwiches is an anachronism so is all the flummery of silk and laces, doilies and doo-dads that so often bewilder us. They are unfair to the food as hard to live up to as anybody's blue china. I smile even yet, remembering my husband's chuckles, after we had come home from eating delicatessen chicken off ten-dollar plates, by help of antique silver.
This, in a brief resume, was the purport of the give and take of numerous despatches between them during tea, while outwardly Mother and Father, too, when he thought about it were delighted with their perfect company manners. Jane Anne, outside all this flummery, went her own way upon an even keel. She watched him closely too, but not covertly.
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