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She held out her hand and, as he took it, remarked: "They must have had a clergyman and witnesses." "Undoubtedly." "I wish I had been one of the witnesses," she sighed sentimentally. "They were two old men." "Oh, no! Don't tell me that." "Fogies; nothing less." "But the clergyman? He must have been young. Surely there was some one there capable of appreciating the situation?"
Binnie was not indisposed to accompany him on some of these jaunts "provided," the civilian said, "you don't take young Hopeful, who is much better without us; and let us two old fogies enjoy ourselves together." Clive was not sorry to be left alone. The father knew that only too well. The young man had occupations, ideas, associates, in whom the elder could take no interest.
Augh? thim staymers is a disgrace to the say; they're for all the world like old fogies, smokin' from mornin' till night and doin' no good." "Do you call it doin' no good to go fasther nor ships iver wint before?" "Pooh; sure Solomon, queen o' Sheba, said there was time enough for all things." "Thrue for you," said O'Sullivan, "fair and aisy goes far in a day, is a good ould sayin'."
Rightly appreciating the growing power of the press, they obtained control of the "Democratic Review," a monthly magazine then prominent as a party organ, and published in it a series of articles attacking the rival Democratic candidates in very flashy rhetoric. These were stigmatized as "old fogies," who must give ground to a nominee of "Young America."
"'The Lord Mayor lent the City P'lice, The cads ran down by scores and scores With shouting roughs, and scented muffs, While blue were flounces, frills, and gores. On swampy meads, in sleeted hush, The swarms of London made a rush, And all the world was in the slush. "Etcetera. That's part of Crayshaw's last; it's a parody of one of those American fogies.
The old fogies of Parliament were startled at finding themselves actually permitting the practice of barbarisms abolished by the Greek emperor, Michael Palaeologus, in 1259, and by the good King Louis IX of France in 1270; and two years afterwards, in 1819, the legal duel or "assize of battle" was by law abolished in England.
She docilely said "home" with the rest, and kept her family ties intact; but she had never expected to go back, except on a flying visit. She thought of England rather vaguely as a country where it was always raining, and where according to John an assemblage of old fogies, known as the House of Commons, persistently intermeddled in the affairs of the colony.
These gentlemen have two clubs in our quarter for the butlers at the "Indiaman," and for the gents in livery at the "Pocklington Arms" of either of which societies I should like to be a member. I am sure they could not be so dull as our club at the "Poluphloisboio," where one meets the same neat, clean, respectable old fogies every day.
She always smiled and often broke out into her musical laugh at what he said; and when Phil, who had been trapped into a game of whist with some old fogies, finally came back into the parlor and made his way to where Grace was having such a happy time, she even launched a shaft or two of her wit at him.
Then they would drive round the Park; round and round and round; and the old generals, and the old colonels, and old fogies, and their ladies and daughters, would nod and smile out of their carriages as they crossed each other upon this charming career of pleasure. I confess that a dinner at the Colonel's, now he appeared in all his magnificence, was awfully slow.
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