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Well, he wasn't a hill of beans to her. She says she didn't believe a word of the things he told her about me. But I'm sewed up now, Billy. That tomfool letter we sent ruined whatever chance I had left. She'll despise me when she finds out that her old father has been made the victim of a joke that a decent school boy wouldn't have been guilty of. Shoes!
Jes t'other day whenst that boy kem, bein' foolish an' maudlin, he seen suthin' on-common in Lee-yander's eyes they'll be mighty oncommon ef he keeps on readin' his tomfool book, ez he knows by heart, by the firelight when it's dim. Ef folks air so sot agin strong drink, let 'em drink less tharsefs.
Belay that!" roared Wicks, leaping to his feet. "I won't have none of this." Mac turned to the captain with ready civility. "I only want to learn him manners," said he. "He took and called me Irishman." "Did he?" said Wicks. "O, that's a different story! What made you do it, you tomfool? You ain't big enough to call any man that."
Byrd, I warn you that my well-known critical faculty needs stimulation; I mean to drop in at the studio ere long to slam the latest masterpiece. So long," and he grinned himself out before Stefan's rising irritation had a chance to explode. "Why do you let that great tomfool call you by your first name, Mary?" he demanded, almost before the front door was shut.
There are times when I feel as if I could bite some men, that Tomfool Maurice de Courcy, for instance, when I hear him rattling on, and think 'I know I have often talked thoughtlessly, I have feared afterwards I might have given you pain. 'No, no, you never have; you have carried me along with you. I like nothing better than to hear of your ridings, and shootings, and boatings.
But in that moment Bernard broke into an exclamation of most unwonted anger, and ruthlessly seized the ragged wisp of black beard that hung down over his victim's hollow chest. "This is too bad!" he burst forth hotly. "By heaven it's too bad! Man, stop this tomfool mummery, and explain yourself!" The beard came away in his indignant hand.
How about you?" Cunningham addressed the question to Dennison. "Oh, I'm neutral and interested. I've always had a sneaking admiration for a tomfool. They were Shakespeare's best characters. Consider me neutral." Cleigh rose abruptly and stalked from the salon. Cunningham lurched and twisted to the forward passage and disappeared. When next Jane saw him in the light he was bloody and terrible.
I took a long stride and twitched the receiver from him. 'Macgillivray, I said, 'is that you? Richard Hannay! For the love of God come round here this instant and deliver me from the clutches of a tomfool A.P.M. I've got the most deadly news. There's not a second to waste. For God's sake come quick! Then I added: 'Just tell your fellows to gather Ivery in at once. You know his lairs.
Her actions were normal; her mental state was not observable; but inwardly she retained no clear recollection of the hours that intervened between this and the astonishing climax. As from a distance, she heard the voice of the son: "Looks rum to you, no doubt. But I can't tell you the story at least not now. It's the story of a tomfool. I had no idea he was on this side.
"Now, then, no more of this tomfool acting; unlock this iron and take me out into the fresh air, or as sure as you stand there, you great, black-muzzled, piratical-looking scoundrel, I'll say such things about you to the captain that he'll hang you to the yard-arm, and serve you right." "What!" growled the smuggler. "Not got tame yet?" "Tame, you miserable ruffian!
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