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Updated: June 1, 2025
Whenever we have had the slightest reason to suspect any man, we have had him kept off the ship and watched. We have run down a lot of footling spies, too stupid to give us a minute's anxiety, but this man who cut the Antinous's wires is of a different calibre altogether. He is AI, and when I catch him, as I certainly shall, I will take off my hat to him."
One by one he took him through the catalogue of the aimless, stupid, footling performances in the term, and Gus blankly wondered how the dickens Taylor knew quite so much of his doings, He felt that the house master was not a bad imitation of Corker on a flaying expedition.
He remembered one of his father's favourite sayings: "The duty of a man of the line is to fight, and if needs be, die, not to avoid dying." His anger grew "damn them for a pack of cringing, footling cowards: he, Tim Gamelyn, descendant of the De Gamelyns who fought in a hundred battles, would teach them how men of his father's house went into battle."
It seemed he had had experience in flying some relation of his with whom he had spent a holiday last summer. It would mean his getting out quickly. He seemed quite eager to be gone. "Isn't it rather dangerous work?" she asked. She felt it was a footling question even as she asked it. Her brain had become stodgy. "Nothing like as dangerous as being in the Infantry," he answered.
Greek artists flocked to Rome; and doubtless the more fifth-rate they were the better a thing they made of it: but it was risky for good men to rely on Roman appreciations. Two flute-players are contending at a concert; Greek and perhaps rather good. Their music is soon drowned in catcalls: What the dickens do we Romans want with such footling tootlings? Then the presiding magistrate has an idea.
Take Roger, for example, will he become Lord Chancellor of England, or a footling little Registrar of a footling County Court?..." "I haven't had a brief yet," Roger interrupted, "so that question's somewhat premature, isn't it?" "I'm not talking about now ... I'm talking about the future," Gilbert replied.
If this man she loved was not for her, at least no other woman should scorn him. She drew herself up in her full-bosomed magnificence. "Instead of telling him not to touch you, you little fool, you ought to fall at his feet. For what he has done for you, you ought to steal the wide world and give it to him. And you refuse your footling little insignificant self.
At present I'm simply going to carry out orders and fight for my ship. I'll gladly find a good place for you if you'll tell me what you prefer risk or safety." "Safety? Say, Barry, I want to be placed, if possible, where I can do good work without getting popped off by some footling little arrow before the big game arrives. That's the only safety I want.
Any other generation at your age would be footling around, living a shallow existence in the valleys, or just beginning to climb a slope to higher things. But you" here the Colonel tapped the writing-table with his forefinger "you, just because you've timed your lives aright, are going to be transferred straight to the mountain-tops. Well, I'm damned. Eighteen!"
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