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Updated: May 16, 2025
"And if you were not the honest-meaning marplot that you are, Mr. Boyd should teach you a lesson!" "I'll teach him one now," said I, springing to my feet and gone quite blind with rage so that I was obliged to stand still a moment before I could discover Boyd where he stood by the open door, trying to converse with Mrs. Lansing, but watching us both with unfeigned amazement. "Euan!"
Of me you did not think, except as a marplot! You say you came for the great pleasure you enjoyed in Nora's society! Did it ever occur to you that she might learn to take too much pleasure in yours? Answer me truly." "Hannah, yes, I believed that she was very happy in my company." "In a word, you liked her, and you knew you were winning her liking!
I won't go down there to the hall and make an ass of myself talking history and be dished by that old marplot. But if I can get hold of the same men having previously gagged Madame Beattie or deported her I'll make them act some plays." "What kind of plays?" "Shakespeare, maybe." "They can't do that. They don't know enough."
And again in the Envoi: Prince, draw this sovereign draught in your despair, That when your riot in that rest is laid, You shall be merged with an Essential Air: Dear, tenuous stuff, of which the world was made! Out of Nothing then did they proceed to make the world, this sweet world, always excepting Man the Marplot. Man was made in a muddier fashion, as you shall hear.
Mrs. Dunbar had called her a "marplot." To mar the plot of this man, and avenge upon him the wrongs of her father, would be sweet indeed; but could it be possible for her to do it? That was the question. The next morning came, and Edith rose full of a new purpose. She thought of her efforts on the preceding day, and concluded that she had made one great mistake.
But but when it comes to finding out anything about either of them, gee, you might as well whistle jigs to a milestone so-o you might!" "Across the lake in golden glory, The fairy gleams of sunlight glow. Another day of joy is ending, The clouds of twilight gather low." Another day of joy, indeed! Without peril of rattlesnake or marplot nickum to spoil it!
Davis himself had been a soldier. He was a graduate of West Point, and in the Mexican campaign he had commanded a volunteer regiment with much distinction. But as a director of military operations he was a greater marplot than even Stanton.
"He shall be attended to," answered poor Archie, who was trying to bring up the little marplot with the success of most parents and guardians. "The whole thing was deuced disagreeable," growled Steve, who felt that he had not distinguished himself in the late engagement. "Truth generally is," observed Mac dryly as he strolled away with his odd smile. As if he suspected discord somewhere, Dr.
The latter attempted to "steal his thunder" by issuing a forerunner of the Emancipation Act, and was removed; but Lincoln reinstated him till he had to repeat the removal. He was repaid by the incorrigible marplot setting up as candidate for the chief magistracy after it was settled that the retiring officer should be reelected.
With the conditions named, a wrangle may be set down as one of the certainties. But Harvey Bradley had defied the fury of half a hundred men, and he meant to teach this marplot his proper place.
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