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"I hope not." "I am devoted to you." "Lord Silverbridge!" "I think you are " "Stop, stop. Do not say it." "Well I won't; not now. But there has been no tomfoolery." "May I ask a question, Lord Silverbridge? You will not be angry? I would not have you angry with me." "I will not be angry," he said. "Are you not engaged to marry Lady Mabel Grex?" "No." "Then I beg your pardon.
'The etchings were the text of an awful row, in which the old gentleman exposed himself more than I am willing to repeat, and called on me to choose between his hides and tallow and what he was pleased to call my tomfoolery. Felix groaned. 'Exactly so. You are conscious that his demand was not only tyrannical but impracticable. One can't change the conditions of one's nature.
But if he kept the foolishness up, and this other tomfoolery on account of which she had had to leave the Works and spend her valuable time talking to the Dean, why, he might be expelled. He would certainly be suspended. And that would put off his getting into business for still another year. "And you are twenty-four!" she said.
When, however, I have completed this plaguy work on which I am engaged, I hope to be able to devote more attention to them. After some further conversation, the subjects being, if I remember right, college education, priggism, church authority, tomfoolery, and the like, I rose and said to my host, 'I must now leave you. 'Whither are you going? 'I do not know.
I found the house and asked for Miss Montague. As I mounted the stairs to the drawing-room floor, I heard a sound of voices the murmur of laughter; idiotic guffaws, suppressed giggles, the masculine and feminine varieties of tomfoolery. "YOU'D make a splendid woman of business, YOU would!" a young man was saying.
And which rather surprised himself he did not lift a supercilious eyebrow and say in a soft, apathetic voice, "Very we-ell!" Instead, he turned his head towards the devoted Wallis, who had helped two conductors swing the cot from the ceiling, and was now waiting for the storm to break. And what he said to Wallis was this: "What the deuce does this tomfoolery mean?"
O you legislators about to assemble in Parliament! read over that tailor's bill above printed, read over that absurd catalogue of insane gimcracks and madman's tomfoolery and say how are you ever to get rid of Snobbishness when society does so much for its education? Three hundred and forty pounds for a young chap's saddle and breeches! Before George, I would rather be a Hottentot or a Highlander.
He was dressed to represent some hideous monster that never was known on sea or land, and in his hand he carried a grotesque mask. "Hullo!" he exclaimed; "some one been rubbing you down the wrong way? Caramba, you are in a towering rage! Pray what has offended your Royal Highness?" "Why, all this tomfoolery!
First there was that Bible, a book as big as your head, which I had let myself in for by my own tomfoolery. Then there was my gun, and knife, and lantern, and patent matches, all necessary.
Warner cheerfully, "I've been pretty well entertained with all this pointless and incompetent tomfoolery for a couple of days; but it seems to be wearing rather thin, and I'm engaged for a city dinner. Among the hundred flowers of futility on both sides I was unable to detect any sort of reason why a lunatic should be allowed to shoot me in the back garden."
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