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They bend over the ant-heap. The downpour has damaged it; the insects are scurrying to and fro in the mud, agitated, and busily trying to carry away their drowned companions. "You needn't be in such a taking, you won't die of it!" says Terenty, grinning. "As soon as the sun warms you, you'll come to your senses again. . . . It's a lesson to you, you stupids.
"Don't you hear what it says? 'Baa-aa-by! Baa-aa-by! It couldn't be put more plainly. It's asking you to call it baby." As the elephant pushed off and vanished in a whirl of flying snow, the Woman turned to the Man with a smile of gladness. "The clumsy fellow's right. Weren't we the stupids? Fancy not understanding our own baby!"
But if you have no objections, we will play a game or two of cards with the citizens here." "All right," replied Toulan. "But I hope you have got the new kind of cards, which have no kings and queens on them. For, I tell you, I do not play with the villanous old kind." "Nor I," chimed in Lepitre. "It makes me mad to see the old stupids with their crowns on that are on the old kind of cards."
Her mind mechanically fixed upon two-and-a-half; she would charge them two-and-a-half times the market price of the cheese. With this moral plank to cling to, she made change with conscientious accuracy and did not keep a penny too much from anybody. Telling them what big stupids they were, and that it was necessary to learn to count in this world, she urged them out of her shop.
"Well, you don't suppose we're such old stupids as to think it floated, do you?" cried Bob. "No, of course not, but that's what it did." "I don't believe it," said Bob stubbornly. "You don't believe it?" I said, while poor Bigley stood staring at the last speaker. "No.
"You won't catch anything here," Panteley shouted from the bank. "You are only frightening the fish, you stupids! Go more to the left! It's shallower there!" Once a big fish gleamed above the net; they all drew a breath, and Dymov struck the place where it had vanished with his fist, and his face expressed vexation. "Ugh!" cried Panteley, and he stamped his foot. "You've let the perch slip!
It turned over when the tide overtook it, and then quietly returned to the deep sea." "Oh! what stupids we were!" cried Neb. "That is precisely what I had the honor of telling you before!" returned the sailor. Cyrus Harding had given this explanation, which, no doubt, was admissible. But was he himself convinced of the accuracy of this explanation? It cannot be said that he was.
You run us and take care of us. We know we're stupids compared to you. But really mamma and I stand aghast at the way in which you manage your love affairs!" "My love affairs!" cried Lydia, "but I haven't got any!" "Do you mean to say that Lord Tatham is not in love with you?" said Susan severely "that he wouldn't marry you to-morrow if you'd let him?"
The street had suddenly become black. "That's right, old street," ejaculated Gavroche, "put on your night-cap." And turning to Jean Valjean: "What do you call that gigantic monument that you have there at the end of the street? It's the Archives, isn't it? I must crumble up those big stupids of pillars a bit and make a nice barricade out of them." Jean Valjean stepped up to Gavroche.
You'd better ask him." "It's like both of you you nice stupids!" she said. "What? the pot-scrub! That's not polite of you, Miss Rainham; and so untrue, where I'm concerned." Wally sat down on the arm of a lounge and regarded her with a twinkle. "What's old Bob doing?" Tommy laughed happily.
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