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Updated: May 13, 2025
"Poor old Poynsett, I used to think he wanted to be spoony on you, Joan, if he had only known his own mind. If he had, I suppose he would have been alive now!" "What a pleasing situation for Jenny!" Herbert could not help muttering. "Much better than running after ostriches in the wilderness," quoth Philip. "You ride them double, don't you?"
Digby in the act of elevating his eyebrows at Mr. Devereaux, who signified his opinion by telegraphing back: "It is all over with them." "Hey, Somers," said the first; "what are you doing nowadays?" "Pretty much the same work that I always have on hand." "Do you mean to stick to Belem?" "No." "I thought so. But what has come over Des. lately? He is spoony."
But the poor player who well, no matter. No use in becoming sentimental or spoony about it. Now, own up, my position was unpleasantly embarrassing, wasn't it?" "It was not exhilarating." "No. There was nothing cheering about it. However, I put on no long face, though between ourselves I wished some other fellow stood in my shoes." "How considerate for the other fellow!"
If I stay in this consarvitery, I shan't consarve myself long, that's a fact, for this gall has put her whole team on, and is a runnin' me off the road. 'Hullo! what's that? Bell for dressin' for dinner. Thank Heavens! I shall escape from myself, and from this beautiful critter, too, for I'm gettin' spoony, and shall talk silly presently.
They met on the avenue, looked, spoke and, without more ado, proceeded to Delmonico's to sup. The amour thus begun soon assumed a romantic intensity. When she left the city, he dispatched ridiculously "spoony" telegrams to her in Baltimore, and in his daily letters indulged in a maudlin sentimentality that might have inspired the envy of a sighing Strephon in his teens.
The spoony young man was at Mabel's right hand, to be sure, but he had been sent in with the keen-faced young lady who came from Girton, where it was well known that the marks she had gained in one of the great Triposes under the old order, would but for her sex have placed her very high indeed in the class list.
I don't know what I'll be doin' with you so 'riginal an' smart. Why, you'll quit keepin' an old man's company like me. I won't be able to entertain you at all. But, as I was sayin', the next thing he knows, he'll be one of the family." "So me an' Kathleen, we soon got spoony an' wanted to marry.
I was awfully spoony on her myself, you know, but I knew it was no use, and I would rather by a lot that she married you than anyone else I know. But come along into my tent; you know your troop and ours are going to be joined. We have lost pretty near half our fellows, either in the fights coming up or by sunstroke or fever since we came here.
"She doesn't; she isn't the kind that thinks of things like that. Of course, some women would have discovered it months ago; one of your strong-minded ladies, perhaps only Sam wouldn't have been spoony on that kind." "Well!" said Martha, "I must say, flat " But William interrupted her "To prove what I say: she lets him come in and bore her to death, just out of kindness.
"I am sure that is not a necessary consequence," said Bluebell, rather mystified by the meaning tone of his voice, but Alec, believing she had heard his nocturnal serenade and assuming a secret understanding on the strength of it, lingered by her side talking in an undertone really about nothing in particular, for, like most spoony boys, he trusted more to his eyes than his tongue.
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