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Then as the heat of the day came on I experienced an enormous tedium and discomfort. The flies became extremely troublesome, and my little grave of a rifle pit was invaded by ants. I could not get up or move about, for some one in the trees had got a mark on me. I kept thinking of the dead Prussian down among the corn, and of the bitter outcries of my own man. Damned foolery!
And he has made, and will make, thousands of people happy, thrill them, give them a new interest. If Stevenson can create a Jekyll and Hyde, why can't I create a wild man? I have. We have his picture to prove it. What more do you wish?" I acquiesced. All told, it was a delightful bit of foolery and art, and Peter was what he was first and foremost, an artist in the grotesque and the ridiculous.
He had an unorthodox style, but an excellent eye, and the road at this period of the game became absolutely unsafe for pedestrians and traffic. Mike's pace had become slower, as was only natural, but his score, too, was mounting steadily. "This is foolery," snapped Mr. Downing, as the three hundred and fifty went up on the board. "Barnes!" he called. There was no reply.
He went on crying, and coughing, and saying over and over again: "Oh! My God!... My God!..." And in the short moments of respite between the fits of coughing he laughed a little hysterically. Salome thought he was going mad. When at last she understood the cause of his agitation, she scolded him sharply: "How can anybody get into such a state over a piece of foolery!... Give it me!
"Away!" he shouted, "away from the clear fountains, ye filthy swine! Out of the sanctuary, ye accursed peddlers! Touch no longer the altar with your desecrating hands. What have ye to do with the alms of our fathers, which were given for the poor and the Church, and you spend for splendor, pomp, and foolery, while the children suffer for bread? See you not that the wind of Freedom is blowing?
Part with the land you have, and, my life upon it, you will never after own a spot big enough to bury you in. Half of what you will get for the land you will spend in moving to Missouri, and the other half you will eat and drink and wear out, and no foot of land will be bought. Now, I feel it is my duty to have no hand in such a piece of foolery.
Gilbert Galbraith, Old House of Galbraith, Widdiehill, March, etc., etc. The laird stretched his neck like a turkeycock, and gobbled inarticulately, threw the paper to Fergus, and turning on his chair, glowered at Gibbie. Then suddenly starting to his feet, he cried, "What do you mean, you rascal, by daring to insult me in my own house? Damn your insolent foolery!"
It's a temptation to keep her." The secretary tittered. "Why not? Surely you will not let it go back to the writer of that letter." Peter Winn shook his head. "I'll answer. No man can threaten me, even anonymously or in foolery." On a slip of paper he wrote the succinct message, "Go to hell," signed it, and placed it in the carrying apparatus with which the bird had been thoughtfully supplied.
"If only he doesn't take to drinking again," I said to Nils. "No, surely," he said. "And I don't believe he ever did. It was just a bit of foolery, if you ask me, his going on like that just for the time. But talking of something else will you be coming back here in the spring?" "No," I answered. "I shall not come again now." Then Nils and I took leave of each other.
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