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Updated: May 18, 2025
'Oh, they're a set of soft-pated fools, replied deacon Small, 'preach hell-fire and brimstone to 'em, they'll swallow everything you say, and give you a devilish good salary into the bargain. A young man, small and thin, and well dressed, now approached, and grasped the deacon by the hand. 'Why, this is an unexpected pleasure, said the young man 'who would have thought of seeing you here?
I can't believe she designedly tricks, but she's surrounded now by a gang of chattering, soft-pated women, and men with bats in their belfry, who unite in assuring her that her God-given powers must be fostered. They've cut her off from any decent marriage she's virtually a prisoner to their whims. What they may induce her to do next I don't know.
Uncle Ethan and the cases of medicine disappeared, and the old woman addressed her concluding remarks to little Tewksbury, her grandson, who stood timidly on one leg in the doorway, like an intruding pullet. "Everything around this place 'ud go to rack an' ruin if I didn't keep a watch on that soft-pated old dummy.
Upon the most charitable construction, those who believed in rappings, planchettes, materialized forms, ghosts, messages on slates, and all the rest of the amazing catalogue, were either half-baked thinkers, intellectual perverts, or soft-pated sentimentalists, whose judgment was momentarily clouded by the passing of a grief.
George has vices, to be sure, but they belong to the stomach rather than the heart that obese heart which, such as it is, the good Queen can call her own. "Hath your Royal Highness ever seen this Cibber act?" asked the Duchess, by way of making conversation. She never stands on ceremony with soft-pated George, and does not wait to speak until she is spoken to.
Uncle Ethan and the cases of medicine disappeared, and the old woman addressed her concluding remarks to little Tewksbury, her grandson, who stood timidly on one leg in the doorway, like an intruding pullet. "Everything around this place 'ud go to rack an' ruin if I didn't keep a watch on that soft-pated old dummy.
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