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It is probable that the rumors in question were merely the reports of boastful drunken vaporings and would better have been ignored. However, at this time Alvarado, recently arisen to power through the usual revolutionary tactics, felt himself not entirely secure in his new position.
Sir Blaise thought it was time to change the conversation. "Let us leave these ravings and vaporings," he entreated, wheedling, "and return to the business of life. And 'tis a very unpleasant business I come on." Halfman drew his hand across his forehead as a man who seeks to dissipate ill dreams. Then, with a tranquil face, he gave Blaise the attention he petitioned. "How so?" he asked.
Vaporings of this sort sound very much like the old sour grape story and have their origin in the fertile brain of the publicity manager of the beer trust. Absence of drunkenness, law and order, and the reduction of crime to a minimum, have invariably followed the "dry" wave. Prohibition has emptied the jails, and the people are gratified with the new order of things.
It was characteristic of Andrew's robust mind that, instead of wasting time in noisy vaporings and sentimental sorrow, it seized at once the weak point in the case. "But he can't afford to marry." "Oh, I'll see to that." "You'll see!" shouted Andrew. "Do you mean to say you've had a finger in the pie?" "Four fingers and a thumb," smiled his parent.
And if you dare hurt Alice Roussillon I will have you hanged like a dog!" Hamilton looked at him scornfully, smiling as one who feels safe in his authority and means to have his own way with his victim. Naturally he regarded Beverley's words as the merest vaporings of a helpless and exasperated young man.
"People who have reached the years of maturity pay no attention to the vaporings and madness of the foolish." He did not look around, but he heard a gusty exclamation, the scrape of a chair on the floor, and a hasty step. Then he felt a hot breath, and, although he did not look up, he knew that de Mézy, flushed with drink and anger, was standing over him.
Finding, however, that the emperor was not to be argued out of the idea of holding a labor conference, he proceeded to ridicule it, and what was worse, to cause it to be scoffed at and treated with derision as the vaporings of an inexperienced and altogether too generous-minded youth, in German as well as foreign papers, which William knew derived their inspiration from the chancellor's palace in the Wilhelmstrasse.
Potter's play was by no means lacking in interest, but we are exceedingly tired of the ubiquitous heroine of tawdry "romance" who does unsubtle things, in an unsubtle way, to help out certain unsubtle "complications." If I mistake not, these very novels are beginning to pall, as such stupid, meaningless vaporings should do.
You ordered me to dream, and I did so. Cannot we forget my unworthy vaporings and enter upon the consideration of what may prove more profitable?" Here he glanced down at the slip of paper he himself held the slip which Mr. Gryce had handed him with a single word written on it, and that word a name. "In a moment," was Mr. Gryce's answer.
It may open her eyes to the truth that a spirit like mine brooks no opposition, and when she sees that I am ready to face death for her she will admire, respect, and yield to a nature that is haughty and like that of the old nobility." Thus he blinded himself in these vain, silly vaporings, the result of a false training and the reading of stilted romances.
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