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But it also strengthened her in the now certain knowledge that, with his worldly inanities, his foppish ways, and foolish talk, he was not only wearing a mask, but was playing a deliberate and studied part. Marguerite wondered again. Why should he take all this trouble? Why should he who was obviously a serious, earnest man wish to appear before his fellow-men as an empty-headed nincompoop?
"And so it seems," said the officer, slowly, "that our love has withered before it has blossomed, so to speak. How do you wish me to understand it? Is it a sort of coquetry on your part, or do you look upon me as a nincompoop who can be treated as you choose." "It was a mistake! Leave me alone!"
The men who want to marry her, and can't, will do that! The nincompoop can always be counted on to deify the commonplace. And she is commonplace. If she isn't, she's no good! Commend me to sanity and the commonplace. I take off my hat to it! I honour it. God bless it! Good-night!" Siward lay still for a long while after the doctor had gone.
"If I had got into this state," he sometimes said to himself, "because of being merely in love with a pretty face, I should consider myself a silly nincompoop; but it is such a terrible thing for so sweet and young a creature to be chained to a man who must in the nature of things, land her in beggary and break her heart." Thus he deceived himself as to his main motive. Poor Lewis!
Lean on my arm, madam, and we'll have you in and home in a whiff. What a noise and a rout this farmer man makes! and my husband, with his great broad face, bowing, as great a nincompoop as t'other. The folks are all bewitched with the old woman, I verily believe. A field near Eton College; several boys crossing backwards and forwards in the back-ground.
We were married in 1876; and after I left the Court Theater for the Lyceum, we continued to tour together in the provinces during vacation time when the Lyceum was closed. These tours were very successful, but I never worked harder in my life! When we played "Dora" at Liverpool, Charles Reade, who had adapted the play from Tennyson's poem, wrote: "Nincompoop!
I have made a scurvy bargain: art a cozening knave, I doubt, as well as a nincompoop. I deigned no reply to this bundle of lies, which did accuse heavenly truth of falsehood for not being in a tale with him. He rose and we took the road; and presently we came to a place where were two little wayside inns, scarce a furlong apart. 'Halt, said my master.
So they were trading with Belgium, were they? That was interesting. "Well, then, 'ow the dickens do they send 'em out?" "Boats, idiot!" The man's voice was full of contempt for the nincompoop who couldn't use his head. Above the clang of the machinery Cleek's voice rose a trifle higher. "Well, any fellow would know that!" he said with a laugh. "But what I means is, what sort er boats?
"I think he is, without exception, the most egregious nincompoop I ever saw. Just as I passed the long swamp on my way home, I met him crashing through the bushes in hot pursuit of a rabbit, the track of which he mistook for a fox.
"What is that Mary doesn't like, eh?" said the father, looking over his spectacles and pausing before he opened his next letter. "Being among a lot of nincompoop girls," said Alfred. "Is it the situation you had heard of, Mary?" said Caleb, gently, looking at his daughter. "Yes, father: the school at York. I have determined to take it. It is quite the best.
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