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Hardie," said she presently, with marked courtesy, "I should, under the circumstances, prefer to go home alone. My aunt's nerves are sensitive, and I must think of the best way of breaking to her the news that I am alive." "It would be best, Miss Fountain; and, to tell the truth, I feel myself unworthy to accompany you after being so maladroit as to give you pain in thinking to amuse you."
The five "Barton girls" range from twenty-five to forty, and are so mentally and physically unattractive and maladroit that it would be impossible to regard them as in any danger if they went unattended to the uttermost parts of the earth. On this particular occasion the party consisted of two dozen people, ranging from twenty to fifty, which it would seem afforded ample protection.
Things went smoothly enough that first day while my people were becoming acquainted. Then it was Jimmie, dear blessed old, maladroit, hot-tempered Jimmie, always so completely at home in a business deal, and always so pathetically awkward and so confidently bungling in domestic crises, who supplied us with sufficient material for a book on "How Not to Prune Trees Properly."
Mrs Trewthen and her daughter went together along the Giant's Walk, or promenade, to the house, rather in advance of her husband and Mr Heddegan, who talked in loud tones which reached the women over their shoulders. Some would have called Mrs Trewthen a good mother; but though well meaning she was maladroit, and her intentions missed their mark.
"Maladroit! et tres maladroit, monsieur," says Stenio, curling his moustache; "c'est bien le mot, monsieur! "Also, I make my excuses to Madame la Duchesse, which I hope she will receive," said Lord Kew. The Duchesse shrugged her shoulders and sunk her head. "When one does not know how to dance, one ought not to dance," continued the Duchesse's knight.
Every rare, sublime thought that managed to get through the savage millennia did so because of sordid, procreative energy which manufactured the generations despite imperfect performances of maladroit sperm missing their targets, the targets most times missing, and even the walls of the missing targets sometimes being some other type of wall, a wall like his own wall, a man's wall.
What words deceitfully bland, what vows, what desires, what vague hopes have been negligently thrown on the winds; thrown as the handkerchief of the fair dancer in the Mazourka... and which the maladroit knows not how to pick up!...
'I suppose if it's too much for her she'll give it up, said Pamela in her most obstinate voice. But even then a normally tactful man still held on. Never was anything more maladroit.
The nephew of his predecessor in the see, with a real sense of the divine world but as something immeasurably distant, Monseigneur Guillard had been brought by maladroit worldly good-fortune a little too close to its immediate and visible embodiments. From afar, you might trace the divine agency on its way.
He never liked to see me mend pens; my knife was always dull-edged my hand, too, was unskilful; I hacked and chipped. On this occasion I cut my own finger half on purpose. I wanted to restore him to his natural state, to set him at his ease, to get him to chide. "Maladroit!" he cried at last, "she will make mincemeat of her hands."
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