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I am not enamored of this voyage, for I do not like being thrust upon your company, but you saved my life, and I have no right to throw away what you went to such lengths to preserve. What would you have me do?" The oafs exchanged glances. They spoke after a minute in a united, disjointed grumble. "You don't work." The Englishman looked at them and at me.
I will stable it at the chateau to-night. And sometime to-morrow afternoon, by when you should be well away, I will return it to the Breton arme." "Oh, but that is impossible." "Impossible? Why?" "For several reasons. One of them is that you haven't considered what will happen to you if you do such a thing." "To me? Do you suppose I am afraid of that pack of oafs sent by M. Lesdiguieres?
Oho, and hark to Deptford! now all the oafs in the Corn-market are cheering this bulwark of Protestant England, this rising young hero of a people with no nonsense about them. Yes, it is a very quaint and rather splendid ephemera." The daughter of a marquis could not quite approve of the way in which this shoemaker's son, however talented, railed at his betters.
Be he never so silly, his very silliness, so long as he be lively at it, shall be its own excuse. Upon occasion, who likes not a lively loon, one of your giggling, gamesome oafs, whose mouth is a grin?
They stared at him stupidly, not speaking or touching their caps, just loutishly staring; and he stared at them with black severity. He thought how he himself had been like one of those oafs, living in a cottage not so many miles from this spot. No one now seemed to remember his humble birth, his unhappy youth, his sordid home. Other people forgot everything; while he could forget nothing.
The son of Prince Hinoe, who would have been the King of Tahiti had the dynasty continued to reign, had a dozen chums at a table, oafs from seventeen to twenty, and with the fish course they began to chant. The captain of the Saint Michel was with Woronick, the pearl-buyer, who had made the fearful trip to the Marquesas with him.
And I felt, of course, that I had done more harm than good by questioning; inasmuch as every soul in the place would run straightway and inform him that the King's man from the other side of the forest had been sifting out his ways and works. 'Ah, I cried, for I could not help it; 'you begin to understand at last, that we are not quite such a set of oafs, as you at first believed us.
Here is a part of a letter from Stephen to me, he writes pretty much everything to me: "...Mrs. Judge Tolman has invited me to another of her evening parties. Everybody says they are very pleasant, and I can see that they are to people who are not sticks and oafs. But I am a stick and an oaf. I do not like society, and I never did. So I shall decline Mrs.
The head on the pillow was raised to listen. "A murrain on those folk. There has been bungling among the pack-riders. That new man Derek is an oaf of oafs." She rang her silver bell sharply and waited on the ready footsteps. But none came. There was silence now below, an ominous silence. "God's curse upon this household," the woman cried.
There are no "flannelled fools" among them, but quickly there are plenty of "muddied oafs." Trousers much too long are rolled up, coats and vests are dispensed with, braces are loosed and serve as belts. There is running to and fro, mud, and poor old footballs are kicked hither and thither.
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