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The Master was immensely flattered. Why should she wish to be introduced to such an old fogey? But there she was, smiling at him. "You knew my father. I am sure you did!" His elderly heart was touched, his taste captured at once. Sorell had engineered it all perfectly.
But, you see, our young men had the misfortune to be born a little later than you. And they can't help it." She sighed a little. "It is trying sometimes.... But they're all right really, and they'll come back to things." They were at the gate by now. Sir Robert stood aside to let her pass. "I know, dear," he said, "I'm an old fogey. Besides, young Graham has good stuff in him I always said so.
Bidding her neck and hands adieu miss Douce Those things only bring out a rash, replied, reseated. I asked that old fogey in Boyd's for something for my skin. Miss Kennedy, pouring now a fulldrawn tea, grimaced and prayed: O, don't remind me of him for mercy' sake! But wait till I tell you, miss Douce entreated.
You may try not to forget what you've been taught, but in a snap! they'll prove all that's rubbish, and tell you that sensible men have nothing more to do with such foolishness, and that you, if you please, are an antiquated old fogey. What's to be done? Young people, of course, are cleverer than we are!
'Your success will be a lesson to your elders, too. Only by applying the Marxian philosophy of history can we upset the bourgeois Weltanschauung. The landlord's son reached the roof of the egg-box with one angry bound and stood beside the agitator. 'Marx is an old fogey! he shouted. 'What's the good of a passive strike? Let us make a demonstration against the director; let us
He took "the little beggar," as he called him, in his arms, and kissed the mother again, soothing and laughing at her in the tender, kindly, fatherly way which had won Lucy. "It is you who have got the seat," he said; "I vote that you go and sit in it, Lady Randolph. You are a born legislator, and your son is a favourite of the public, whereas I am only an old fogey." "Oh, Tom!"
'A fine gift to rejoice in, to make one be whipped off by an old fogey, when one most wants to be at home! I thank my stars I can't sing! said Fulbert. 'I should thank mine if Bill Harewood had any sense, said Lance, sitting up in a heap on the floor.
But I soon discovered that the Young Fogey was one of that large class of persons who do not evolve but revolve, whose brilliancy is that of the fixed star. They give out arrestive thoughts, and you are vastly impressed, but on longer acquaintance, or on returning to them after an interval, you find that it is they who have been arrested by their thoughts.
We had been going for three hours, and when, cold and damp, we got inside a cottage for tea, I found that we had covered only twenty li so we were told by an old fogey who brushed up the floor with a piece of bamboo. He was dressed in what might have been termed undress, and was most vigorous in his condemnation of foreigners.
It's no good in looking an old fogey, if you aren't one; it's no earthly use," standing before a glass and ruefully examining his countenance "in looking fifty, if you are only thirty-four. It will be a scandal," says the professor mournfully. "They'll cut her, and they'll cut me, and what the deuce did Wynter mean by leaving me his daughter? A real live girl of seventeen!
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