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Updated: June 21, 2025
How could Marcus Curtius saddle up for his terrible leap, and keep the words of the Oracle a secret? At any rate, he could not see her confusion at her own malapropos that was something! She recovered from it to find him saying: "But what I want to know is what happened yesterday? I mean, how came you to know anything you did not know before? Was it anything I did?
I doubt whether she has the slightest influence with respectable people." It was just after breakfast, and the day promised to be the hottest of the year. The vicar, heavy-laden man, had sat down in his study to worry over parish accounts. When the door opened to admit his wife, he quivered with annoyance. Mrs. Lashmar had a genius for the malapropos.
Sally, too, put in her word of instruction from the kitchen, helping, as she fancied, though her assistance was often rather malapropos; for instance, she called out, to a little fat, stupid, roly-poly girl, to whom Miss Benson was busy explaining the meaning of the word quadruped, "Quadruped, a thing wi' four legs, Jenny; a chair is a quadruped, child!"
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