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You need this sort of a place and our sort of house, you ridiculous little thing. Besides, you have Gaylord at your beck and call" Trudy blushed "and you seem to manage to have a pretty good time when all is said and done. I do feel responsible for you because at twenty-three you are more scatterbrained than " "Finish it than you were at thirteen! Well, what of it?
Impulsively she turned to run to her aunt, and lay the matter before her, but paused and sat down on the little chair before her writing desk. Covering her eyes with her clenched hands she tried to think. Tante Lydia was worse than useless, scatterbrained, self-centered, incapable. What would she do?
Thornburgh and his guest had visited a few houses in the course of their walk, and the vicar plunged for a minute or two into some conversation about local matters with his wife. But Mrs. Thornburgh, it was soon evident, was giving him but a scatterbrained attention. Her secret was working in her ample breast.
I argued in the negative, and gave the reasons for my disbelief much as I have set them forth here. MacShaughnassy, on the other hand, contended that he did, and instanced the case of himself a man who, in his early days, so he asserted, had been a scatterbrained, impracticable person, entirely without stability.
Bea, sometimes it's terrible to realize that my ambitions have become true. To dream and work without ceasing and without much caring what you do until your dream merges into reality it makes even a six-footer as hysterical as a schoolgirl." "You're intense," she said, soberly. "Jill says you'd make a wonderful actor." Steve looked annoyed. "Those scatterbrained time wasters don't listen to them.
Thirty-four years old now, not handsome but wholesome, simply and neatly dressed, her brown hair smoothly parted and brought down over her ears, she had nothing of the scatterbrained impulsive reformer about her, and no coquetry. She was practical and intelligent, and men liked to discuss their work with her.
There were many answers, mostly to the effect that Lydia was so scatterbrained as witness her "party," and her blue-silk dress, and her broken engagements, etc., etc., that she was perfectly capable of letting anybody shove a foundling into her arms! Mrs.
"Have you made your peace with Miss Tennant, you scatterbrained young woman?" "It's a hereditary taint, Dad don't blame me!" retorted Molly with lazy impudence, pulling his head down and kissing him on the top of his ruffled hair. Selwyn grinned. "I pass," he submitted. "And who is it that's been crossed in love?" "The Hermit of Far End."
The slightest of excuses served to turn him suddenly from a clever, scatterbrained imp of mischief into a serious student. It happened that the whole school met on an equality in one subject Scripture History.
There isn't a scatterbrained adventure conceivable that we're not going to be forced into, nor an imaginable peril that we're not going to have to pull him out of. We're going to be cursed for our trouble, and ridiculed to make amusement for her majesty. And at the end of it all we're going to be patronized for a couple of ignorant damned fools who don't know better than be bachelors.
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