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"Lawyers is the numbskull boys," she grumbled, "I belave none of them know their business " Half past ten o'clock, eleven o'clock, half past eleven Felicia still knitted, she could no longer see what she was knitting. Her eyes were blurred with unshed tears. It wasn't for herself that she cared, it was for all of the rest of them.
I've made a fool of myself a good many times in my life more gettin' back to nature, you see but I hope I never made myself out quite such a blitherin' numbskull as I did that time. Don't talk about it, don't. I ain't exactly what you'd call proud of it." "But I am. And so is Charlie.
"Numbskull!" said Jeppe always, when the conversation touched upon Jacob; "for such a miserable louse suddenly to get a swollen head, to want to make big presents! And if it had been for his young woman even but for his wife! No, he paid the penalty to the very last day in spite of Andres." Yes, he certainly had to pay the penalty! Even here no one would sit next to him!
Beagle was furious, and hotly scolded his son. In spite of his advanced age, Beagle senior was still an autocrat and insisted on regulating the details of the great business he had built up. "You numbskull!" he shouted to Beagle junior, "that fellow was worth any dozen others in the place, and you let him be fired by a mongrel superintendent."
"But I employed the best physicians and specialists, and they all agreed that he had hereditary consumption and was incurable." "Most of these physicians are numbskulls and quacks." "Do you call Professor Chas. William Canterbury of the University of Canterbury a numbskull or quack?" "Eh, no, of course not."
Indeed, on a second glance, it seemed impossible to fancy that the body was in a natural position. "I've taken a notion into my old numbskull," observed Silver. "Here's the compass; there's the tip-top p'int o' Skeleton Island, stickin' out like a tooth. Just take a bearing, will you, along the line of them bones." It was done.
My cousin fairly lost his temper at this, and cursed the other for a thin-skinned numbskull. "Either we sail or we don't," he concluded by saying, "and either we sail with a commission or without it. I am ready here to alter the date with my own hand it is but turning a IV into a VI to give us two years more, and you need know nothing of the matter."
And they made the old captain pull down the light that he had been burning steady and true, and the Government sot up that thar newfangled thing a flashing by clockwork on Numbskull Nob. It did make the old man hot, sure. 'Shet the window, mate, he said to me when he was dying and wanted air badly.
"Ah, but ZEES awdiense weel nevair hear souch subtle deefferense!" I knew what he meant too the auditorium was filled with hundreds of glassy eyed parents, siblings, and tiny tots; half of them probably could not even spell "viola". Mr. Rossi practically pranced away off to see the numbskull and make another announcement: the soloist was unharmed; the show would go on.
And that I'm sure you've done something naughty at school, 'cause you won't ever talk about it. And how you're always saying bad words like blooming and gosh and golly yes, I will!" "You were always a sneak and a tell-tale." "And you were always a greedy, selfish, deceitful thing." "You don't know anything about me, you numbskull, you!" "I don't want to! I know you're a bad, wicked girl."
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