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'You forget, sir, said Charley, he's not a sailor, he's only in the Civil Service; we're all very bashful in the Civil Service. 'I think he is rather spooney, I must say, said Katie; whereupon Mrs. Woodward went on reading. "'It's a sweet thing, isn't it? said Macassar.
I heard Warham say one day to mamma, 'Middleton is regularly spooney upon Gwendolen. She was very angry with him; but I know what it means. It is what they say at college for being in love." "How can I help it?" said Gwendolen, rather contemptuously. "Perdition catch my soul if I love him." "No, of course; papa, I think, would not wish it. And he is to go away soon.
'I do not think, Squib, that you ever will be in office, if even you be appointed. 'On the contrary, my good fellow, my punctuality should surprise you. I should like very much to be a lay lord, because I cannot afford to keep a yacht, and theirs, they say, are not sufficiently used, for the Admirals think it spooney, and the landlubbers are always sick.
There is no doubt whatever that I was a lackadaisical young spooney; but there was a purity of heart in all this, that prevents my having quite a contemptuous recollection of it, let me laugh as I may. I had not been walking long, when I turned a corner, and met her. I tingle again from head to foot as my recollection turns that corner, and my pen shakes in my hand.
"I fancy he used to be awfully spooney on Mab Grex. I remember hearing that they were to have been married, only that neither of them had sixpence." "Oh Lady Mabel Grex! That's a horse of another colour." "And which is the horse of your colour?" "I haven't got a horse," said Lord Popplecourt, going away to his own corner. Miss Boncassen's Idea of Heaven
But her driver could not resist turning in his teetering seat, as the dust began to rise, to shout back, "If I'd a girl I was as spooney over as you are, I'd keep an eye skinned for chaps as good lookin' as the parson. Haw! Haw! Gedap!" Donald rode off with a laugh, but his face became grave as he climbed the hill.
All the way Charles had talked incessantly of Ellen, and Cecil joined in Charles's praises of his sister, and joked with him for being "awfully spooney" about her. "You're worse about my sister, Charley," said he, "than old Sam is about Miss Brentwood. He takes things quiet enough, but if you go on in this style till you are old enough to marry, by Jove, there'll be nothing of you left!"
Old Scotch and Jenks ain't never run onto each other at our house, but I've fixed it." Tad grinned gleefully, as he made this declaration. "Fixed it, how?" asked Frank. "Why, I writ 'em both a letter, askin' 'em to call to-night at eight o'clock, and I signed Nancy's name. I made the letters jest a little spooney, but not too much so. I'll bet they'll be tickled to death, and they'll come sure."
I'm a lame duck now, and if my luck doesn't soon begin to turn, I'll do something desperate, I believe." The lad's tone was bitter, his look reckless and half despairing. "Pooh, don't be a spooney! We all have our ups and downs, and you must take your turn at both, like the rest." They had ascended a flight of steps, and Jackson rang the bell as he spoke.
Now Halifax is like that 'ere SPOONEY, as I used to call him; it is fed by the outports, and they begin to have enough to do to feed themselves; it must larn to live without 'em. They have no river, and no country about 'em; let them make a railroad to Minas Basin, and they will have arms of their own to feed themselves with.
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