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Updated: May 22, 2025
"No! it didn't. But I have had more than enough of your impertinences. I would box your ears for the unlicked pup you are, if I could do it without soiling my palms." I smiled. "Those days are gone, Harry, and you know it, too. Let us cut this evasion and tom-foolery. You have got that poor girl into a scrape. What are you going to do about getting her out of it?" "I have got her into trouble?
"I didn't even turn my head; 'xactly as I stood, I remained, and I spoke no louder than himself: "'If you want to know, sir, it's nothing but just damned tom-foolery. "We had, of course, been having short talks together at one time or another during the passage. I dare say he had read me like a book.
Still with the suspicion of conscious weakness, he read something affecting himself in the general buzz and countenance of the assembly; and said to Devereux, on purpose loud enough for Toole to hear 'Ensign Puddock and myself would be proud to know what was the divarting tom-foolery going on about the floor, and for which we arrived unfortunately a little too leet?
He's never satisfied without he's sticking up suthin' new or different," they would say, as they called attention to some new picture or shelf or improvement in the house. "It's all tom-foolery. Things was well enough before."
When the Giant heard that, he said no more about it; but a little while after, he saw how the cupboard was all decked about with flowers and garlands; so he asked who it was that had done that? Who could it be but the Princess. 'And, pray, what's the meaning of all this tom-foolery? asked the Giant.
It had happened on the Saturday afternoon before. Jock was down town, standing on the sidewalk in front of Crofter's hotel discussing the bad state of the roads with a farmer friend, when Mr. Crofter came forth, and after introducing the subject of Local Option in a friendly fashion, said: "Well, sir, I'm glad to see one good Presbyterian who hasn't gone off his head over this tom-foolery."
Will you not admit that for a vulgar, impudent brute, he is about as bad as even England can supply?" Of course Lord George had nothing to say in answer to this. "He is going on with this tom-foolery, I believe?" "You mean the enquiry?" "Yes; I mean the enquiry whether my son and your nephew is a bastard. I know he put you up to it. Am I right in saying that he has not abandoned it?"
"And why shouldn't I? In fact, I consider you and your tom-foolery as the biggest joke I ever heard." "But it was no joke to Curly." "Apparently not, judging by the noise he made. What did you do with him?" "What did I do with him! Just wait until you see the blackened tree to which he was bound, and then you won't ask such a question."
Yes, at this delightful season the woodcock is no longer silent, its tongue is loosened, it breathes its tale of love, and, with joyful notes, proclaims its happiness morning and night; and yet there are those who would make us believe that the tender passion is useless, that love is tom-foolery, or that it does not exist.
The whole thing goes to bright music, like a comic opera of Gilbert and Sullivan. There is life and movement; but it is a scenic and burlesque life. There is wit, criticism, and caricature;, but it does not cut deep, and it is neither hot nor fierce. There is some pleasant tom-foolery; but at a comic opera we enjoy this graceful nonsense.
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