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What a terrible piece of wooden-headed history was the effort to force Denmark to break her neutrality or make war on her! They seized Zealand, and because the Prince Regent refused to agree to their perfidy, they kept possession of it.
You see, I have been in the South Seas ever since I was a kid and by nature I'm half a Kanaka. I've lived among natives so long, and " He held up his hand, smiling the while: "I'm glad to have such a good comrade as you, Drake. You have the makings of a good sailorman in you, but you're too quick and excitable, and want an old wooden-headed, stolid buffer like me to steady you. Now let us start."
I realised that I had no longer to deal with a suspicious, wooden-headed lawyer, but with a frank, kindly human being. "I don't see the joke," he said, but his look of cold anger was fading rapidly. "The joke," I said, "is a particularly funny one. I have quarrelled with the entire Jervaise family and their house-party.
The owner of the saw-mill signed twenty pounds as his subscription towards it, and paid it in boards the carpenters who did the work received from the subscribers pork and flour for their pay and our neighbour, the embarrassed lumber-man, who was still wooden-headed enough to like anything of a timber spec, got out the frame by contract, himself giving most generously five pounds worth of work towards it.
But what can I do without you and how on earth am I to explain your absence? "Once more, Evelyn, I beg and I demand that you should come home." To which the Duchess had rushed off a reply without a post's delay. "Oh, Freddie, you are such a wooden-headed darling! As if I hadn't explained till I'm black in the face. I'm glad, anyway, you didn't say command; that would really have made difficulties.
"We have submitted our proofs," he said, "and they have been received with derision. Your ambassador, Monsieur Bardow, has spoken for us and in vain! In what different manner can we approach this wooden-headed government? You have come here with something to propose! What is it?" Monsieur Bardow nodded assent. He opened his mouth to speak. Suddenly his expression changed. He pointed to the door.
He speaks for the dumb beast, pleads for the maltreated brutes of Smithfield Market, craves compassion for skeleton omnibus-horses, with the same ready sympathy that he fights for cheated fellow-mortals. In the court of public opinion, he is volunteer counsel for all in any way defrauded or kept in bondage by pitiless pride, barbarous policy, thoughtless luxury, or wooden-headed prejudice.
Humour would not come to his aid; the lighter elements of race were ousted; he was solid insolence, wooden-headed self-will. Irene had risen. "I am not feeling quite myself. I have said all there is to be said, and I must beg you to excuse me." "You should have begun by saying that. It is what I insisted upon." "Shall we shake hands, Mr. Jacks?" "To be sure!" "It is good-bye. You understand me?
"Two guineas!" roared Merry, shaking it at Silver. "That's your seven hundred thousand pounds, is it? You're the man for bargains, ain't you? You're him that never bungled nothing, you wooden-headed lubber!" "Dig away, boys," said Silver, with the coolest insolence; "you'll find some pig-nuts, and I shouldn't wonder." "Pig-nuts!" repeated Merry, in a scream. "Mates, do you hear that?
"I'll do so gladly," said Lady Kynnersley, with surprising meekness. "But you will bring him back, Simon? I've arranged for him to marry Maisie. I can't have my plans for the future upset." By-law 379! Dear, excellent, but wooden-headed woman! "I have your promise, haven't I?" she said, her hand in mine. "You have," said I nobly.
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