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"Never mind, Jim," said Paul, "your time will come; and if it doesn't come to you, it will come to your sons." "Paul, you're talkin' foolisher than ever," said Jim indignantly. "You know that I ain't a married man, an' that I ain't got no sons." Paul only smiled. Again he was dreaming, looking far into the future.
He would take the pistols thee speaks of, supposing it were his good luck to have them, and let fly at the evil-minded creatures with them also; not hoping, indeed, to do any execution with such small ware, but to make the Injuns believe there were as many enemies as fire-arms: and, truly, if they did not take to their heels after such a second volley, they would be foolisher Injuns than were ever before heard of in Kentucky."
For the first time she felt the voluptuous bitterness of being scorned, discarded, until reaction from despair brought her back to her former pride and self-control! Love was over. She had had enough of artists; though an interesting sort of folk they were in their way. Far preferable were the ordinary, normal men she had known before Keller's time! The foolisher the more commonplace the better!
But soon as ever they made a pounce c'lk! he rolled off the slope and into deep water. Regular as clockwork it happened; quiet and easy as a door on a greased hinge; and every time it made the three look foolisher and foolisher. "After half-a-dozen tries, Cara allowed that he couldn' go on bein' mocked by a dumb animal; so he set his brain to work, and thought out a new plan.
"Oh, there's English gibberish as well as Irish, we know!" "And a deal foolisher when they do go at it; for it won't bear squeezing, we think, like Irish." "Where!" exclaimed the ladies, "where can she be! The storm is terrible." Laetitia suggested the boathouse. "For Crossjay hadn't a swim this morning!" said De Craye.
"Trust me, lieutenant," says Barry, straightenin' up. "I shall stand by the pole." Sounds simple, don't it? But that's the way all us great minds work, along lines like that. And the foolisher we look at the start the deeper we're apt to be divin' after the plot of the piece. Don't miss that. What's a bent hairpin in the mud to you? While to us boy, page old Doc Watson.
I think to-day I am foolisher than usual. Thoughts that would not tease other people, tease me. Can even the omnipotent God remember all the unnumbered dead, and restore to them the shape and features that they once wore, and by which they who loved them knew them? The funeral is over now over two days ago. She lies in Tempest church-yard, at her own wish.
If he had not known that, he would have been foolisher than a mouse or a minnow. But when he got into the wood, he found it a very different sort of place from what he had fancied. He pushed into a thick cover of rhododendrons, and found himself at once caught in a trap. "I must get out of this," thought Tom, "or I shall stay here till somebody comes to help me which is just what I don't want."
Then she added: "I think I like that little sister of yours and I think I like you, too. I wish you would tell me the story that begins: In my young days when I was an old, old man...." "But, Princess, it's a very foolish story." "The foolisher, the better!"
If that was your business with me, you've made a mistake, and Professor Roberts is right." "Hev I?" asked Mr. Gulmore slowly, coldly, in sharp contrast to the lawyer's apparent excitement and quick speech. Contemptuously he thought that Hutchings was "foolisher" than he had imagined or was he sincere?
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