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As the men slowly dipped their oars, for there was not a breath of wind, the two lads had to make an effort to, as it were, drag their eyes from the lovely floral scene on either side of the little river, while they watched the proceedings of the blacks. "Well, they are a pair of stupids," said Rodd. "What is it ignorance or suspicion?"
I could no longer even want to be good and all that for the lack of this dear foolish bit of realness in you." "No one can know better than I that my nature is a faulty one, Nance " "Say unfortunate, Allan not faulty. I shall never again believe a fault of you. How stupid a woman can be, how superficial in her judgments and what stupids they are who say she is intuitive!
Next she took round some ices and glasses of syrup and water, set them down for a moment to stuff a little baby-girl who had been overlooked, and then went off again, asking every one questions. "What is it you wish, my pet? Eh? A cake? Yes, my darling, wait a moment; I am going to pass you the oranges. Now eat away, you little stupids, you shall play afterwards."
The shadows of the woods were formidable. He was certain that in this vista there lurked fierce-eyed hosts. The swift thought came to him that the generals did not know what they were about. It was all a trap. Suddenly those close forests would bristle with rifle barrels. Ironlike brigades would appear in the rear. They were all going to be sacrificed. The generals were stupids.
"Splendid!" said Mary. "I am so glad! And I don't belave you two stupids know!" "You niver can tell by lookin' at me what I know," said Jimmy. "Whin I look the wisest I know the least. Whin I look like a fool, I'm thinkin' like a philosopher." "Give it up," said Dannie promptly. You would not catch him knowing anything it would make Mary's eyes shine to tell. "Sap is running!" announced Mary.
Arrived at the dockyard, where the engineer and the sailor were working together, Herbert recounted what had happened. "Oh! the stupids!" cried the sailor, "to have let at least fifty meals escape!" "But, Pencroft," replied Neb, "it wasn't our fault that the beast got away; as I tell you, we had turned it over on its back!" "Then you didn't turn it over enough!" returned the obstinate sailor.
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