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"Of course he's a bore," whispered Louis. "I wouldn't lose this day at Pompeii for a shipload of footling schoolmasters." Very early next morning he wakened her by tapping on her cabin door. She had heard him tossing about in the night and was not surprised that he looked tired and rather haggard.
He was not altogether unprepared for such an attitude on the young man's part: for from his eyrie on the terrace above the ninth green he had observed him start out on the afternoon's round and had seen him lose a couple of balls in the lake at the second hole after taking seven strokes at the first. "Yes!" cried the young man fiercely. "For ever, dammit! Footling game!
I ought to tell you that since we left England he has taken up painting footling little pictures, and has got the artistic temperament badly. All his life he's been starting some new fool thing. When I first met him he prided himself on having the finest collection of photographs of race-horses in England. Then he got a craze for model engines.
I asked King Konrad Karl. I asked that footling ass Bland-Potterton. They don't any of them seem to be able to do more than just gasp and say 'The Emperor' over and over again." "The Emperor's wish " said von Moll. "There you go," said Gorman. "That's exactly what I'm complaining about. I ask what the Emperor has got to do with it and all the answer I get is 'The Emperor."
Only a couple of days ago I was compelled to take him off a case because his handling of it was so footling. And, anyway, I resent this assumption, if assumption is the word I want, that Jeeves is the only fellow with brain. I object to the way everybody puts things up to him without consulting me and letting me have a stab at them first."
"All this footling squabble between workmen and employers about a farthing an hour more or a farthing an hour less ... isn't decent ... it isn't gentlemanly. Oh, I know very well that the counter-jumper thinks it's very clever to trick a customer out of a ha'penny ... but it doesn't last, that kind of profit.
"Tommy doesn't, either; we talked it over. We'd rather do with next to nothing, and buy decent stuff by degrees if we get on well. Tommy says she doesn't want footling little gimcracky tables and whatnots and things, nor dressing-tables full of drawers that won't pull out. But I've been looking at the cheap stuff in Cunjee, and, my word, it's nasty!
May I pay for the picture in cash and may I come back here, or wherever you are on the fifteenth day from now, and introduce myself properly? Or you've only to speak the word, and I'll throw over the whole footling business this minute, and " I cut in, to say that I won't speak the word, and he mustn't throw the business over. It is quite amusing I tell him, and I hope he'll win his bet.
Madlen made a record of Essec's scheme for Joseph; and she said also: "Proud I'll be to shout that my son bach bought Penlan." "Setting aside money am I," Joseph speedily answered. Again ambition aroused him. "Footling is he that is content with Zwanssee. Next half-holiday skurshon I'll crib in Cardiff." Joseph gained his desire, and the chronicle of his doings he sent to his mother.
He nodded comprehendingly, but hesitated over further words. Then something occurred to him. "Look here!" he said. "If you're as keen about all this, are you game to give up this footling old shop, and devote your time to carrying out my plans, when I've licked 'em into shape?" She began shaking her head, but then something seemed also to occur to her.
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