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Updated: June 17, 2025
"I think," she said to her reflected figure in the glass, "I think that you are either mentally ill or inherently a kind of devil. And I don't much care which." And she turned leisurely, her slim hands balanced lightly on her narrow hips, and strolled into the second dressing-room, where Mrs. Vendenning sat sullenly indulging in that particular species of solitaire known as "The Idiot's Delight."
The sun had gone down quite out of sight when our hero with a happy heart but with something like a sneer on his countenance as he jerked off the wooden "runners" trudged hopefully toward the tiny hutlike building, known of old as the "idiot's cottage." Duller eyes than his would have discerned two slight figures moving near the doorway.
Then another figure came out of the darkness, seized the lantern and held it first to her face and then to Dick's. They saw that it was the idiot's mother, and Dick again repeated, though with much secret fear, that they had lost their way. "Is there no one with 'ee?" asked the woman astonished. "No," said Dick sadly. "We're lost."
But after a time the child's harassing phrase fell clearly upon his ear. 'Haven't you done worrying us with your cat? he shouted furiously. 'Hold your tongue, Jacques, when your father is talking! repeated Christine. Upon my word, I do believe he is becoming an idiot. Just look at his head, if it isn't like an idiot's. It's dreadful. Just say; what do you mean by your pretty and ugly cat?
The idiot's got hold of some barn paint somewhere, and tried to daub it over. He's trying to make a getaway with it!" "We'll chase him. In my car." "Don't you mind?" "Of course not. I do not give up my objections to the roughing philosophy, but You were right about these shoes Oh, don't leave me behind! Want to go along!"
The fan-tails strutted vaingloriously; Maudie lay in the sun on the stable wall; and Billy Bluff's kennel was empty. "Hullo, where's Bill?" cried the young man. "Some idiot's let him off his chain," grumbled the girl. "Just like them. A hunting morning." A great gray horse, led by little Jerry, was feeling his way through the stable-door.
She doesn't think the old idiot's coming home at all; she doesn't believe anything I tell her now." "Nonsense!" But Sangster's eyes looked anxious. He had seen a great deal during the last four days, and for the first time there was a tiny doubt in his mind. Had Christine really lost her love for Jimmy? He was obliged to admit that it seemed as if she had.
Not even for Kurban Sahib's sake will I defile my sword." So he went to seek and returned with three long leather ones, and said, "Four wounded lie within, and doubtless each has a permit from a General," and he stretched the ropes and laughed. Then I bound the old man's hands behind his back, and unwillingly for he laughed in my face, and would have fingered my beard the idiot's.
He is a willing accomplice of that perversity in things who delights in another's discomfiture or in his own, and craves the blind tension of plunging into danger without reason, or the idiot's pleasure in facing a pure chance.
"Solitaire is more your style. Idiot's delight. If you catch yourself cheating yourself, you can shoot yourself for what I care!" "Well, I can have a peaceful game, anyhow," Husky called after him, smiling complacently at getting the last word. He forthwith dealt the cards for solitaire. Husky was a burly, red-faced, red-haired ex-brakeman, of a simple and conceited character.
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