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He would not like her receiving a call from any man. And Harvey did not like foreigners. He always said they had no respect for women. It struck her suddenly what Harvey would call Henri's bowing and his kissing her hand, and his passionate gesticulations when he was excited. He would call it all tomfool nonsense.
"I think you are speaking of your own friend, Barbara Grant?" said I. "There will not be anything as bitter as to lose a fancied friend," said she, quoting my own expression. "I think it is sometimes the friendship that was fancied!" I cried. "What kind of justice do you call this, to blame me for some words that a tomfool of a madcap lass has written down upon a piece of paper?
He stopped, for Sylvia opened the door suddenly. "If she wa'n't dead and gone, I wouldn't believe one word of such a tomfool story," said she, with vicious energy. Then she shut the door again. At dinner Sylvia ate nothing, and did not talk. Neither Henry nor Horace said much.
Only one of them, a little man with a wrathful air, in a sheepskin coat wide open, and a lambswool cap pulled right over his eyes, on coming up to the gingerbread man, suddenly inquired: 'How much is the gingerbread, you tomfool? 'What sort of gingerbread will it be, worthy sir? the disconcerted gingerbread man responded in a thin, little voice. 'Some are a farthing and others cost a halfpenny.
Even in that day the cost of living was said to be excessive, and Rapp, Senior, though accounting for its rise by the iniquity of the interests, submitted that the cost of women's finery was what kept the world poor. "It's women's tomfool dressing keeps us all down. Look what they pay for their silks and satins and kickshaws and silly furbelows!
You want genius, my boy, to make a tomfool of yourself like this, and he looked himself proudly up and down. 'Twenty customers a week come here for nothing in the world but to see what new rigs Daddy may be up to. The invention the happy ideas, man, I throw into one day of this place would stock twenty ordinary businesses.
"You'll never get anywhere so long as youse trail with that reform bunch. It's all hot air and tomfool theory. Populism and socialism! Take my wor-rd for it, there's nothin' to 'em." "I'm neither a populist nor a socialist, Mr. O'Brien." "Coorse you're not. I can see that with wan eye shut. That's why I hate to see youse ruin yourself with them that are.
Rufus continued heavily, fatefully, gathering force with every word, as a loosened rock beginning to roll down a mountain side. "The light was bad. It was a tomfool thing to do. And Columbine was with you." Knight raised his shoulders ever so slightly. "Or rather I was with her. Miss Columbine knows the lie of the quicksand. I do not." Rufus went on as if he had not spoken.
A wild desire seized him to make a night of it, Maxim's, the cabarets; riot and wine. Who cared? But the desire burnt itself out between two puffs of his cigar. Ten years ago, perhaps, this particular brand of amusement might have urged him successfully. But not now; he was done with tomfool nights.
'Now you take my advice, he says. 'You ain't quite yourself; you're making a mistake. I don't want to get you in trouble if you don't force me to it. Drop this 'ere tomfool game and go home quiet to wherever it is you do live. 'I tell you I live here, you fool! shrieks Wilfred, in deadly terror lest he should be forced away before the door is opened.
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