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Updated: May 2, 2025
And, if I might judge by the consternation and anger reflected in the faces of his two auditors, his message was anything but welcome. That is to say, Alfred Fluette's strong features showed these emotions, while, as always, it was difficult to read what was going on behind Burke's impassive mask. Still it was pretty plain that the secretary was utterly at his wits'-end.
What is to be done? "Well; it must be!" answered Albert at last, agreeing to take the clamor on himself, and to do the feat; being at his wits'-end for money.
Sometimes they put themselves to their wits'-end to draw an ugly thing, the Medusa's head, for instance, but they can't do it, not they, because nothing frightens them. They widen the mouth, and grind the teeth, and puff the cheeks, and set the eyes a goggling; and the thing is only ridiculous after all, not the least dreadful, for there is no dread in their hearts.
"Now we ken what he was doing in the country yestreen," said Snecky Hobart, "the which has been, bothering us sair." "The manse is fu' o' the flowers she sends him," said Tibbie Craik. "Jean's at her wits'-end to ken whaur to put them a'." "Wha is she?" It was Rob Dow who spoke. All saw he had been drinking, or they might have wondered at his vehemence.
His Sowship was driven sometimes to his wits'-end by his trimming between the general dislike of the Catholic religion at home, and his desire to wheedle and flatter it abroad, as his only means of getting a rich princess for his son's wife: a part of whose fortune he might cram into his greasy pockets.
A needy tradesman, for instance, when at his wits'-end for money, can't help thinkin' that a lucky spark would put him all right." "But how could the burning of his goods put him all right?" demanded Mary. "W'y, 'e don't want goods, you know, 'e wants to sell 'is goods an' so git money; but nobody will buy, so 'e can't sell, nor git money, yet money must be 'ad, for creditors won't wait. Wot then?
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