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The wise, amused smile of a man can sometimes stampede my self-possession and leave me blushing like any ninny in dire confusion. . . . It was very, very mean of you for the blood across your face did shock me. . . . And, by myself, and in my very private thoughts, I do sometimes call you by your first name. . . . And that explains it. . . . Now, what have you to say to me?"
"I guess anyone would be unreasoning if drowning and unable to swim," chuckled Jack Benson. "I know I would be." "That's good of you," cried the girl, gratefully. "Awfully good, but I'm not deceived. I realize, now, what a criminal ninny I was to, act in a way that came so near to drowning both of us."
He received his majority early, and disappeared for two years into Tibet, Manchuria, and China. After that he came back to England for polo, and met Estelle Fanshawe. She was lovely, gentle, intensely vain, and not very truthful. Lady Staines disposed of her at once as "a mincing ninny." The phrase aggravated Winn, and his fancy deepened.
And so, with a quick conscious cough, she sweetly interrupted: "Oh, Aunt Deborah! Won't you please tell us about about " "About about," jeered the ironical George. "About what, you little ninny?" Poor Elizabeth blushed desperately. She was neither quick nor resourceful. "Now, George," said his aunt warningly. "Wasn't I talking?" the boy rejoined.
Much g-g-good your N-n-number Seven shot'd d-d-do against his t-t-tough old hide!" jeered Toby. "Get out! You don't think I'm such a ninny as that, I hope," answered Steve, indignantly. "Hey, take a look at that shell, and this one, too, will you? Know why that black cross is on them? Course you don't. Well, I'll tell you." "H-h-hurry up then and t-t-tell me."
"I saw him throw them into the tray last night, and I walked them out again, while he was talking to the crowd." "I say, Hurst, don't be such a ninny as to keep them about you!" exclaimed Berkeley, in a fright. "Suppose Pye should go in for a search this morning, and visit our pockets? You'd floor us at once!" "The truth is, I don't know where to put them," ingenuously acknowledged Hurst.
He held in his hand, in the fashion of an antique goblet, a punch-bowl filled with wine, for he despised the ordinary glasses, because of their small size. "Meditating," echoed Rose-Pompon, "Ninny Moulin is meditating. Be attentive!" "He is meditating; he must be ill then!" "What is he meditating? an illegal dance?" "A forbidden Anacreontic attitude?"
"Well, I don't see how you can go so slow," retorted Rachel, with deft passes of the towel over the cup. "My! I sh'd think your elbows had gone to sleep." "They haven't gone to sleep," said Peletiah, who was always literal; and setting down his plate, half-dried, on the table, he turned over one arm to investigate. "Of course not, you little ninny," said Rachel lightly. "I didn't "
His only servant was a sort of Jocrisse, a lad of the neighborhood, rather a ninny, trained slowly and with difficulty to du Bousquier's requirements. His master had taught him, as he might an orang-outang, to rub the floors, dust the furniture, black his boots, brush his coats, and bring a lantern to guide him home at night if the weather were cloudy, and clogs if it rained.
"Well," she said again, "you aren't a ninny, and you aren't a simpleton. At least I hope not. You must know as well as anybody the name of the young gentleman that she's waiting for." In spite of himself, Edwin blushed: he blushed more and more. Then he scowled. "What nonsense!" he muttered viciously. He was entirely sincere.
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