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I used to pretend I was going out, to ride or lounge with the Marquess or some other acquaintance, and then slip upstairs to the quiet old library, bury myself in a windowed recess cut off by curtains, and try to forget it all in a book. Fool-like I thought I could solve my problem so. The Hanyards was calling me and I dared not go. I should leave Margaret, and I could not leave her.
That runs on for a while, and pretty soon in comes a dandy-lookin' chap and tells her she's an abused woman and she HAS been and he begins pickin' up the scraps and piecin' them together, tellin' her all the time the pretty things the first man told her and which, fool-like, she believes over agin, and then one fine day she skips off and the husband goes round, tearin' his hair with shame or shakin' his fist with rage, and says she broke up his home, and if she ever sets foot on his doorstep again he'll set the dogs on her, or let her starve before he'd give her a crumb.
Why must you stare so fool-like; here is no witchcraft, for in the caves yonder 'Joan' meeteth me at every turn; 'tis carven on walls, on chairs, on table, together with 'Damaris' and many woful, lovesick mottoes beside." Now I, knowing this for truth, turned my back and ground my teeth in impotent anger, whiles this woman mocked me with her laughter. "Damaris Joan!" said she.
And here, to prove my words, I let one drop, though indeed I chose a soft place for it. "And they will be so easy to carry with these handles, and why, what have you there?" Saying which she sets down the pot, gently as it had been an egg-shell, and comes to me; whereupon I showed her my posy, and I more fool-like than ever.
So saying, he nodded and taking out a case-bottle, wrenched at the cork with his teeth. "And how say you, Joanna?" questioned Abnegation. "Tush!" said she, with a trill of laughter. "Here is one that talketh very loud and fool-like and flourisheth iron claw to no purpose, since I heed one no more than t'other " "Here's death!" cried he fiercely, stabbing the air with his hook. "Death, wench!"
By such varied activities had Carteret systematically essayed to rid himself of his somewhat exquisite distemper, and, when coming to Deadham, honestly believed himself immune, sane and safe. He was proportionately disturbed by finding the cure of this autumn love-madness less complete than, fool-like, he had supposed.
"Jed was a born fool and yo' can't do much with that kind. They grows more fool-like at the end." Nancy laughed. "I'm just a silly myself," she said rising and stretching her pretty arms over her head as if awakening from sleep. Then: "Mary, I'm going to New York next winter. Going to have a wonderful time." And now Mary looked up and her eyes brightened.
And now as she bustled to and fro, she fell silent and oft I caught her viewing me wistfully, and once or twice she made as to speak yet did not, and I, guessing what she would say, would have told her, yet could think of no gentle way of breaking the matter, ponder how I might, and in the end blurted out the bald truth, very sudden and fool-like, as you shall hear.
This letter he sent to Abu Amir by a little foot page, whom he enjoined to say, "This is from such an one: the King never speaketh to him." "Shall man experience-lectured ever care * Fool-like to thrust his head in lion's lair?
It was a neutrality which had long since been betrayed and sold by the Belgian Government. "But the German people a pure fool-like Parsifal, who could not conceive such treachery and knavery because it was incapable of such things itself toiled and worked day by day, enjoyed the blessings of peace, was happy in its existence and ignorant of the looming clouds gathering on its frontiers.
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