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It may be; folks alter a good deal sometimes; for no man is always in his bloom. But, it strikes me, people ought not to forget me, or to mistake me for any one else, quite so soon as they might many of your smooth nicely painted ninnies.... And you too," as he turned round to the youths, "you perchance don't know that wisdommonger there."
"If Shasta will have the onspakable kindness to tow us along in this shtyle for a few waaks, I think we will cast anchor at the wharf in San Francisco without any loss to passingers and freight." "He has seen what ninnies we were," said Elwood, "and no doubt will accompany us some distance further when he certainly ought to let us try it alone again."
Ah! if I had not already solved the mystery of life by pleasure, if I had not a profound antipathy for those who think instead of act, if I did not despise the ninnies who are silly enough to believe in the truth of a book, when the sands of the African deserts are made of the ashes of I know not how many unknown and pulverized Londons, Romes, Venices, and Parises, I would write a book on modern marriages made under the influence of the Christian system, and I'd stick a lantern on that heap of sharp stones among which lie the votaries of the social 'multiplicamini. But the question is, Does humanity require even an hour of my time?
"I'll confess," said M. d'Anquetil, "that I do not believe in a God." "Now, for once, sir, I must blame you," said the abbe "One must believe in God, and all the truths of our holy religion." M. d'Anquetil protested. "You make game of us, abbe, and take us to be worse ninnies than we really are.
'We are not such ninnies. 'But seriously, Theodora, what can induce Fotheringham to have you? 'I expected you to ask what induced me to have him. 'That in its own time! Tell me, first, why he takes you. 'The same reason that you took Violet. 'As if you and Violet were to be named together! 'Or you and Percy! They laughed, and Theodora then spoke with deep feeling.
Then, we'll go to the Opera. We'll get in with the hired applauders. The Opera claque is well managed. I wouldn't associate with the claque on the boulevard. At the Opera, just fancy! some of them pay twenty sous, but they're ninnies. They're called dishclouts. And then we'll go to see the guillotine work. I'll show you the executioner. He lives in the Rue des Marais. Monsieur Sanson.
"W-e-l-l, I know they don't git their eyes open for a week," asserted Moody. "You're clear off, first crack," retorted Barney. "It's nine days, instead of a week." Again the men were awed to silence. "Yes, that's right Barney's correct," presently admitted citizen Wooster. "You old ninnies!" said his daughter Sally, and she turned away to go to the house.
It is to be found in a work entitled, Foole Vpon Foole, or Sixte Sortes of Sottes, published in 1605, and re-edited and issued, with the author's name attached, in 1608, as A Nest of Ninnies.
The Wittenbergers in Luther's day were not a set of ninnies; the constant association with the professors and students of the university, the growing fame of their town, which brought many strangers to it, important civil and religious affairs on which they had to come to a decision, had made many of them far-sighted and resolute men of affairs.
He isn't here. Did he melt into air?" demanded Felicity. "Oh, come and look for him, all of you. Don't stand round like ninnies. We MUST find him before his mother gets here. Dan King, you're an idiot!" Dan was too frightened to resent this, at the time. However and wherever Jimmy had gone, he WAS gone, so much was certain.
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