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Roach, a thick-skinned and rather thick-headed person, did not spare to remind his apprentice of the most painful things wherewith the latter had to reproach himself. Sidney bore it, from this day beginning a course of self-discipline of which not many are capable at any age, and very few indeed at seventeen.
And now let us light our pipes and finish our yarns as though agitated clients and thick-headed solicitors had no existence." When I arrived at Thorndyke's chambers on the following morning, I found my friend already hard at work.
Here we thick-headed dunces hez been up dar to-day a-takin' de oath an' makin' bleve we's full grown men, an' here's you, dat knows more nor a ten-acre lot full on us, a lyin' here an' habin' no chance at all." "But you want to get de barn full, and can't afford to spend any more time," protested 'Liab. "Nebber you min' 'bout de barn. Dat's Nimbus' business, an" he'll take keer on't.
They provoke worldly men into using light conversation concerning sacred subjects. Thick-headed commentators upon the Bible, and stupid preachers and teachers, work more damage to religion than sensible, cool-brained clergymen can fight away again, toil as they may. It is not good judgment to fit a crown of life upon a city which has been destroyed six times.
The porter was a pretty thick-headed darky, but he was lion-hearted; and his idea was to lay hold of a burglar wherever he could find him. There were plenty of burglars in the aisle there, or people that were afraid of burglars, and they seemed to think the porter had a good idea.
A team of horses harnessed to a carriage was standing before the door; smoke rose from the dilapidated chimney. "I have a guest," he said; "you need not fear him. Come!" In a dozen steps they entered the low doorway, Brocard leading, Lorraine leaning heavily on Jack's shoulder. "Pst! There is a thick-headed Englishman in the next room; let him sleep in peace," murmured Brocard.
He only looked at me so sorry, so grieved like, that I came out of my tantrum, and kissed the place. I've kissed it ever so many times since then, and Arthur knows I'm sorry. I ain't a fit wife for him. I don't blame him for wanting you. I can't see the WRONG, but it's because I'm so thick-headed, I suppose! I wish I wasn't!"
Then all at once I grasped his meaning. "Why, of course!" I cried. "How thick-headed of me!" I went to the bamboo half-box, half-basket Cross had made, and brought it back to where the Indian was sitting nursing his wounded leg, took off the lid, and carefully withdrew the trogon. "Is that the sort of bird you mean?" I said.
The fifth was a Pathan from Desmond's regiment, told off to act as orderly and surveyor; a man of immovable gravity, who shared but two qualities with the thick-headed, stout-hearted little soldiers from Nepal: courage of the first order, and devotion to the British officer, for whom any one of them would have laid down his life, if need be; not as a matter of sentiment or heroism, but simply as a matter of course.
"Oh, I say," whispered Punch, in a half-suffocated tone, "my word! Talk about near as a toucher! It's all right, comrade; but if I had held my breath half a jiffy longer I should have gone off pop. Don't you call this a game? Hide-and-seek and whoop is nothing to it! Garn with you, you thick-headed old frog-soup eaters! Wait till I get my breath. I want to laugh. Can't hear 'em now; can you?"
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