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Updated: June 19, 2025
The Pauls are the lucky dogs. All the nice girls are married. I am going to lunch with a solicitor!" "Oh, how unromantic! And you are on leave!" "Painful, I admit, but I am a stodgy old fogey. When the war is over I am going to buy a velvet coat and a little red pork-pie cap, with a green tassel. Is that old Odin I can hear barking?" "Yes. He has heard your voice."
He began telling them how he had just come from that "old fogey" the governor, and how the latter worried him to death about some sort of charity institution. It was difficult to say what satisfied Golushkin most, the fact that he was received at the governor's, or that he was able to abuse that worth before these advanced, young men.
And something very deep down, very mossed and crusted over in John's heart, beat and stirred, and hurt him. Nedda he had caught her looking at that young fellow just as Anne had once looked at him, John Freeland, now an official fogey, an umbrella in a stand. There was a policeman! How ridiculous the fellow looked, putting one foot before the other, flirting his lantern and trying the area gates!
"No, honoured Mihail Averyanitch; I do not believe it, and have no grounds for believing it." "I must own I doubt it too. And yet I have a feeling as though I should never die. Oh, I think to myself: 'Old fogey, it is time you were dead! But there is a little voice in my soul says: 'Don't believe it; you won't die." Soon after nine o'clock Mihail Averyanitch would go away.
But I'm not going to be an old fogey. What's good enough for my boys is good enough for me." Every child there held its breath for they knew that Joe spoke the truth. As for the proprietor, that puzzled man thought that the little shoemaker was trying to be funny and he laughed his first laugh that evening.
But she remembered also her guest's hospitality at Frisio's, and her social instinct defied her natural reluctance to be lively. She said to herself that she was rapidly developing into a fogey, and must rigorously combat the grievous tendency. By a sheer exertion of will-power she drove herself into a different, and conversational, mood. The Marchesino politely responded.
Jellicoe disappeared through the doorway at the end of the room, "or perhaps I should say, a strange being, for I can hardly think of him as a man. I have never met any other human creature at all like him." "He is certainly a queer old fogey," I agreed. "Yes, but there is something more than that. He is so emotionless, so remote and aloof from all mundane concerns.
"No, I thought he might be, and made inquiries," said Harry. "But that Ruthven seems quite an old fogey. He has been in the employment of that firm ever since the flood, at least, a long time. Do you mind Allan Ruthven, Menie?" "Mind him!" That she did. Menie was very quiet to-night, saying little, but listening happily as she lay on the sofa, with her head on Graeme's knee.
The amateur detective looked a beaten man already, but he talked through his teeth of inspecting the revolvers in every pawnbroker's shop in London. "It will take you a year," said the old soldier, cheerfully. "It seems the only chance," replied the despondent novelist. "It is a case of doing that or nothing." "Then take the advice of an older fogey than yourself, and do nothing!
Is it not a shame that people should not have a voice in the matter of their name, that helpless infants should be abandoned to the tender mercies of some old fogey of a sponsor? Miss Garston, if I were ever to hear you address me by that name it would be the death-warrant to our friendship. 'Let me know who you really are first, and then I will promise not to offend your peculiar prejudice.
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