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Updated: June 13, 2025
Call at two, and Jenny will receive you very kindly, and will show you you are in the 'gall of bitterness and the bond of iniquity. Now, won't that be nice?" "I will go," said Edward gravely. They parted. Where Alfred went the reader can perhaps guess; Edward to luncheon. "Mamma," said he, with that tranquillity which sat so well on him, "don't you think Alfred Hardie is spoony upon our Julia?"
Besides, it was a dull hole of a place after the sort of jobs I'd been used to; and when you've been doing nothing for three months but waiting on commercial gents as are having an exceptionally bad season, and spoony couples with guide- books, you get a bit depressed, and welcome any incident, however slight, that promises to be out of the common.
He was spliced to as pretty a piece of flesh as ever was seen, but she wasn't as good as she was pretty. We were fitting out for another voyage, and his wife had been living on board with him some weeks, for Sam was devilish spoony on her, and couldn't bear her to be out of his sight.
"Perhaps you may do so without dreaming," said Clary, as unconsciously she gave back the weight to her hand. "No; I know very well the sort of girl that makes me spoony." This was not very encouraging to poor Clary, but still she presumed that he meant to imply that she herself was a girl of the sort that so acted upon him. And the conversation went on in this way throughout the walk.
He could fence a little, and did not quite like playing at getting the worst of it when it was not certain that he ought to have done so; but still, the violent action, and the clash of steel helped him to get rid of that feeling that he was making a tom-fool of himself, which confused him when he had to make a lot of spoony speeches to the girl.
"I think he is rather too spoony for his age," said my elder sister. "But he's a fine boy for all that. See how thick his knees are," my younger sister chimed in. "Ah, si, si!" cried Beatrice. 'I made a row against the door, then walked across. "Hello, is somebody in here?" I said, as I pushed into the little conservatory. 'I looked straight at Beatrice, and she at me.
Then there was the handsome library, the conservatory and billiard room, all with little tete-a-tete nooks and corners in which spoony lovers might take refuge for hours, without being noticed. There were lawns and groves, and boats and fishing for the delightful summer-time.
There we met Dicky; he tooted us round by Staines. There we got in a fresh team, galloped all the way to Houndslow. Laura brought her sister. Kitty was with us. Made us die with a story she told us of a fellow she was spoony on. Had to put him under the bed.... Ghastly joke, dear boy!" Amid roars of laughter Dicky's voice was heard
David put his head down on his arms on the railing and stood motionless for a long moment. When he reached home, he found his mother in the twilight, in the little garden behind the house. David, standing behind her, said carelessly, "I have some news for you, Materna." "Yes?" she said, absorbed in pinching back her lemon verbena. "Blair is is spoony over Elizabeth.
and that because England is a money-making country, and money-making is an effeminate pursuit, therefore all sedentary and spoony sins, like covetousness, slander, bigotry, and self-conceit, are to be cockered and plastered over, while the more masculine vices, and no- vices also, are mercilessly hunted down by your cold-blooded, soft- handed religionists.
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