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You mustn't take me for a ninny. Don't let me catch you gallivanting about again with your side glances!" And he made use of some very coarse expressions. It was not him that she had come to look for with her bare elbows and her mealy mouth; it was her old beau. Then he was suddenly seized with a mad rage against Lantier. Ah! the brigand! Ah! the filthy hound!
"Well, why didn't you look at your programme?" "Haven't got one," he said naïvely. He had omitted to take a programme. Ninny! Barbarian! "Better get one," she said cuttingly, somewhat in her rôle of dancing mistress. "Can't we finish the waltz?" he suggested, crestfallen. "No!" she said, and continued her solitary way downwards. She was hurt.
"'I'm a disgrace to a decent household, she said; 'no mistress who respected herself would keep me a moment. I ought to be put out on the doorstep with my box and a month's wages. "'But why did you do it then? said Ethelbertha, with natural astonishment. "'Because I'm a helpless ninny, mum. There was no trace of bitterness or passion in Amenda's tones.
"Rose-Pompon," returned Ninny Moulin, with a still more majestic air, "these trifles are nothing to what you may obtain, if you will but follow the advice of your old friend." Rose began to look at Dumoulin with surprise, and said to him, "What does all this mean, Ninny Moulin? Explain yourself; what advice have you to give?"
Chumley Potts vouches for it. Speaks foreign English. He thinks her more ninny than knave: she is the tool of a wily plotter, picked up off the highway road by Lord Fleetwood as soon as he had her in his eye. Sir Meeson Corby wrings his frilled hands to depict the horror of the hands of that tramp the young lord had her from. They afflict him malariously still.
"Don't you see how bad you make its mother feel?" "No. I's goin' to carry it over the bridge, and show it to my grandma; she wants to see this kitty." Ninny looked troubled. She hardly dared say Flaxie must not go, for fear that would make her want to go all the more. "What a funny spot kitty has on its face," said she, "white all over; with a yellow star on its forehead."
This word comes from the name of Guy Fawkes, the Gunpowder Plotter, through the effigies, or "guys," which are often burned in bonfires on November 5th. Certain Christian names have, for reasons which it is not easy to see, given us words which mean "fool" or "stupid person." The word ninny comes from Innocent. Noddy probably comes from Nicodemus or Nicholas.
She meets him by accident. Suffering gives him a certain sort of dignity: but how is one to retain patience with the blindness of this insufferable ass? Don't you see, man don't you see that she is waiting to throw herself into your arms? and you, you poor ninny, are giving yourself airs, and doing the grand heroic! And then the shy coquetry comes in again.
"Well! here's your bottle and here's your glass. Ninny Moulin shall be umpire." "I do not refuse to be judge of the field," answered the religious writer, "only I must warn you, comrade, that you are playing a desperate game, and that just now, as one of these gentlemen has said, the neck of a bottle of brandy in one's mouth, is perhaps more dangerous than the barrel of a loaded pistol."
"Will you be frank, very frank with me?" "Why yes, my dear." "Well then, tell me truly did you never feel tempted to to to deceive that imbecile Souris?" Mme. Leuillet said: "Oh!" pretending to be shocked and hid her face again on her husband's shoulder. But he saw that she was laughing. "Come now, own up," he persisted. "He looked like a ninny, that creature! It would be funny, so funny!
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