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Lucian did not at once adopt the plan to net Wrent whosoever he might be invented by Lydia, and approved of by Diana. On the whole, he could not bring himself to believe that a weak-headed, foolish old creature like Vrain had masqueraded in Jersey Street as Wrent. Still there were certain suspicious incidents which fitted in very neatly with Ferruci's story. Mrs.
But this is a most hollow cheat which Sir Walter Scott and other book-men have played off on some weak-headed young men of our low-minded generation.
Let us not be misunderstood. There are able men in the New York pulpits. We have Vinton, Chapin, Frothingham, Adams, Osgood, and many others, but we have some weak-headed brethren also. A few clergymen get rich in this city, the wealthy members of their flocks no doubt aiding them. Some marry fortunes. As a general rule, however, they have no chance of saving any money.
They used to say, in fact, that the offspring of a brother and sister was always weak-headed: and from such a wedlock certainly came the human race, so no wonder it was what it was: and so it would have to be again now.
"Well, that's grateful, certainly," thought Hilary; and the desire came upon him strongly to burst out into a hearty laugh, but he suppressed it and said quietly: "Very sorry, sir; I tried to do all for the best." "Yes; that's what every weak-headed noodle says when he has made a blunder.
And as to that, I'll tell you what I'm going to do; so, mind, I warn you beforehand. You're not able that is, you're too foolish and weak-headed to manage it yourself; and I mean, as your guardian, to put it into the hands of those that shall manage it for you.
Randall says, "was a weak-headed, absurd busybody, with that restless itching for notoriety which renders a man, destitute of ability, sense, or delicacy, almost indifferent as to the subject." Washington was naturally indignant at this attempt to ensnare him, and his feelings were much disturbed by the alleged secret attacks upon him and his public measures by Jefferson and his friends.
His march through Italy is the most humiliating of all the invasions which the peninsula suffered; but it shows that when states and peoples are ready for destruction, the strength of a weak-headed boy is sufficient to bring about their ruin.
So impulsive an act might be consistent with the blind compassion of some weak-headed but warm-hearted woman, but not with her self- interested nature, incapable of performing any heroic deed save from personal motives or the most headlong passion. Lastly The weakness of her explanation in regard to the cause which led her to peer into the Zabel cottage through a hole made in the window-shade.
"That's a likely story," said he, after a pause. "It is a true story." "Do you mean to say Crawford trusts you buy goods for him?" "So it seems." "He must be getting weak-headed." "Suppose you call and give him that gratifying piece of information." Just then the train came thundering up, and Ben jumped aboard. Tom Davenport looked after him with a puzzled glance.
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