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He sat in one of the wooden chairs, with his elbows on his knees and his hands clasped, calling himself, mentally, all sorts of things for his idiotic forgetfulness. "And to think," said he, at last, in a hoarse and not over-steady-voice, "that I dared to compare myself to a knight-errant!" The biscuits were disappearing rapidly. Presently she turned and let him see her face again.
Just for punishment, and as a subtle way of letting him know what she thought of him and his idiotic jingle, she picked up the tablet, found the pencil Johnny had used, and did a little poetizing herself. She could have rhymed it much better, of course, if she had condescended to give any thought whatever to the matter, which she did not.
"All right, I'll just go down and speak to him." "Hold up " "I'll tell him." "Wait," I cried, jumping out of bed in my desire to retain him. At that moment a whistle came from below and with an exclamation of relief our burglar slammed the door and locked it. We heard him go down three steps at a time and rush out of the house. "Now you've scared them away," said Clara, "with your idiotic humor."
We felt that it was another of the small discoveries that made us pile up suspicions against the big bully at the head of the party. We had no proof of the midnight visitor, and the story of his sudden disappearance while we watched below would only provoke an unbelieving grin from Leith, and an idiotic laugh from the foolish old Professor. "Better keep it to ourselves," growled Holman.
He was in disgrace with every one, for by that time it was light enough to see three reporters with cameras across the street waiting for enough sun to snap the house, and everybody knew that it was Max and his idiotic wager that had done it. He had made two or three conciliatory remarks, but no one would speak to him.
"Why most freely it was too lovely. We had a real grand old jaw. Don't you remember when we sat there in the Bois?" "Oh rubbish!" Delia panted. "Yes, and Mme. de Cliche passed." "And you told me she was scandalised. And we had to laugh," he reminded her "it struck us as so idiotic. I said it was a high old POSE, and I knew what to think of it.
Fashion soon changes, thought I, eagerly to myself a time will come, and that speedily, when he will be no longer in the fashion; when this idiotic admirer of his, who is still grinning at my side, shall have ceased to mould his style on Byron's; and this aristocracy, squirearchy, and what not, who now send their empty carriages to pay respect to the fashionable corpse, shall have transferred their empty worship to some other animate or inanimate thing.
To preachers, class-leaders, gossips, who upbraided her for not letting them see her mother, she replied by silence. People thought her becoming idiotic. The day after the last creditor was paid she packed up her little box: hired a cart to take her to the nearest coach; and vanished from Aberalva, without bidding farewell to a human being, even to her School-children.
It was like you to go off and hide yourself in that idiotic way; it was like you to let the property slide in that stupid, unselfish fashion; it was like you to get real mad, and say all those mean, silly things to dad, that didn't hurt him in your regular looney style; for rich or poor, drunk or sober, ragged or elegant, plain or handsome, you're always the same 'Lige Curtis!"
You know she is a little inclined to stoop, and I have talked to her about it. She stood straight, and looked at me with those blue eyes, and I did feel fairly dizzy." "What did you say?" "Well, after a bit I pulled myself together and I said: 'My dear little girl, what is this? What do you mean about your big sister Sarah? Edward, I could not bring myself to say that idiotic Solly.
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