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And yet, if we are to write a novel apiece we shall be obliged to put love into it; love with a very large L." "No we wouldn't; I'm sure we wouldn't." Miss. Juno shook her golden locks in doubt Paul went on persistently: "I'm dead sure we wouldn't; and to prove it, some day I'll write a story without its pair of lovers; everybody shall be more or less spoony but nobody shall be really in love."
may seize On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand And steal immortal blessings from her lips, he seems to have expressed himself appropriately. There is no suggestion of mawkishness in his discourse. Our Ferdinand, however, is distinctly spoony. There went no poetic irony to his creation, and he has no saving sense of humor.
Not that Tom was moulded on the spoony type of the Industrious Apprentice; he had a very strong appetite for pleasure, would have liked to be a Tamer of horses and to make a distinguished figure in all neighboring eyes, dispensing treats and benefits to others with well-judged liberality, and being pronounced one of the finest young fellows of those parts; nay, he determined to achieve these things sooner or later; but his practical shrewdness told him that the means no such achievements could only lie for him in present abstinence and self-denial; there were certain milestones to be passed, and one of the first was the payment of his father's debts.
Great events are not settled by sentimentalists, nor history written in milk-and-water. Uninteresting in many ways the Puritans doubtless were, but not in the least spoony. The volume before us contains a vast amount of matter and fulfils honestly what it promises. It tells all that is to be told in the way of fact and statistics.
You won't deny that you have been what you call `spoony, in your abominable slang, eh, Frank?" she repeated, with a knowing glance from her beady black eyes. "Pay her attention, Miss Pimpernell," I said impetuously. "Good heavens! Why, at one time I would have died for her, and let my body be cut into little pieces, if it would only have done her any good!"
"I don't believe, when I have no femme to drag to the hops, that it would make me any more popular with the fellows, either. A fellow who pirates at all should drag a spoony femme pretty often himself." "Why," asked Hayes, opening his eyes rather wide, "are you boning bootlick with any but officers?" "Boning bootlick" means to curry favor.
She stands and watches until he is well on his way, then waves him a final farewell, and trips back home in the serene shadow of her little bonnet. Now you may ridicule that love and call it "spoony" and "silly," but, I tell you, a legacy of gold or a hatful of diamonds could not begin to outvalue such love in a man's home.
'E fancies girls are the sort of things one sees in plays, going about saying 'Un'and me! 'Let me pass! Maybe some of 'em are, but this ain't one of 'em." "How did it happen?" asked Minikin. "'Ow does it 'appen nine times out of ten?" returned Jarman. "'E was a bit misty, and she was wide awake. 'E gets a bit spoony, and well, you know." "Artful things, girls," commented Minikin.
"A fine compliment to me, Cousin Sally," laughed Diane. "I don't agree," replied Sally stubbornly. "It's so. He's spoony. And when he's been drinking and tries to kiss me, I hate him." "Sally, you look as if you'd rather like Russ to do something dreadful to George," said Diane with a laugh that this time was only half mirth. "Half of me would and half of me would not," returned Sally.
Anywhere is better than at home, with a meal of Bible oil and vinegar twice a day for certain, and a wine-glassful of it now and then in between. Damnation's better than a spoony heaven. To be away from home is heaven enough for me. 'But your mother, Charley! I ventured to say. 'My mother is an angel. I could almost be good for her sake. But I never could, I never can get near her.
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