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I hope to have the honor of toasting your wife before I go to bed." Curtis smiled at that, but made no reply, the moment being inopportune for explanations, but Devar murmured, as they crossed the lobby with Steingall and the clerk: "That uncle of yours is a peach, John D. He points the moral like a Greek chorus." "I fear he will regard me as a hare-brained nephew," said Curtis.
The lesson will do him good. A little shame will teach him that he must mend his ways." "You will see he won't come this evening." "That may be, but do you think I shall care?" "Well yes, I did think so." "Because we joked together, I suppose. He is a hare-brained fellow, to whom I do not give two thoughts in the year." "I pity him, as heartily as I congratulate anyone of whom you do think."
Man, will you hare-brained Jacobites never have done with these idiotic intrigues? Nay, in sincerity, Mr. Vanringham, this is annoying." "My Lord Duke," said the other, "I venture to suggest that you forget I dare no longer meddle with politics, in light of my recent mishap at Tunbridge.
'Recollect, you an't worth powder and shot, but I'll be even with you one way or another. 'Stop, interposed Ralph, as Snawley was about to speak. 'Let us cut this matter short, and not bandy words here with hare-brained profligates. This is your son, as you can prove. And you, Mr Squeers, you know this boy to be the same that was with you for so many years under the name of Smike. Do you?
Presently, the captain came up to them. "I have picked four volunteers for your work, Captain Walsham. They were somewhat surprised, at first, to find that they were required for a bout in a French prison; but sailors are always ready for any hare-brained adventure, and they made no objection whatever, when I explained what they would have to do.
Webb did congratulate him in a way that was entirely satisfactory, and then bundled him out of the room in the most summary manner, saying, "Because you are a hare-brained lover, you shouldn't keep sane people awake any longer." It were hard to say, however, who was the less sane that night, Webb or Burt. The former threw open his window, and gazed at the moonlit mountains in long, deep ecstasy.
I don't propose to rehearse the ingenuities of the complicated plans whereby the group we are interested in were to be delivered. Mrs. Gannat's perfect knowledge of the city, her intimacy with the President, Cabinet, and leading men, her vogue with the officials, all tended to make very simple and easy that which would seem in the telling hare-brained and impossible.
He no longer protested nor raised any objection to his companion's hare-brained scheme. The thing was feasible, and he knew it. Conyngham went on to set forth his plans, which with characteristic rapidity of thought he evolved as he spoke. 'Above all, he said, 'we must be prompt. I must disappear to- night, the paragraphs must be in to-morrow's papers. I think I'll go to Spain.
Somebody quite unofficial and sufficiently clever." "My thought too," said Beauregard. "The pinch is where to get our man from. I have been casting up possibilities all day, and this one is too clever, another too dull, another too timid, and another too hare-brained." Wratislaw seemed sunk in a brown study. "Do you remember my telling you once about my friend Lewis Haystoun?" he asked.
Likely enough the girl would prove commonplace in a proud half-educated fashion that would be intolerable for a stranger. But even without the help of the New Mexican the situation was one which called for a thorough personal investigation. Gordon was a hard-headed American business man, though he held within him the generous and hare-brained potentialities of a soldier of fortune.
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