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By that means these two found the plea they sought for quitting us, since neither could rest until the other was convinced. So down they went into that rose garden which methought was like to prove their fool's paradise, and Yvonne and I were left alone. Then she also rose, but as she was on the point of quitting me: "Mademoiselle," I ventured, "will you honour me by remaining for a moment?
"And how you ever discovered the way to manage each other, I can't imagine. But it was the right one. 'A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back." and so saying, she flounced out of the room, without, however, administering the parting slap of another kind which he expected.
Theodora saw Violet lodged on an ottoman, and then strayed away to her own friends. Mrs. Finch soon arrived, and attacked her for having let them go on a fool's errand. 'I could not help it, said Theodora; 'she would come. 'She looks very unwell, said Mrs. Finch; 'but, poor thing, it would be too hard to miss everything this year. 'Or does she come as your trusty knight's deputy? asked Jane.
Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood! Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate his nature.
"That," thought he, "is the result of following accepted opinions and those absurd phrases, all ready to hand, which are like mile-stones along a fool's road! Left free to my own inspirations, I should have examined this case more thoroughly, I would have left nothing to chance. The formula, 'Seek out the one whom the crime benefits' may often be as absurd as true.
My leading-staff were not worth a fool's bauble had he escaped my notice; and he had ere now tasted of our bounty, but that I have also marked his overweening and audacious presumption." "My liege," said the Baron of Gilsland, observing the King's countenance change, "I fear I have transgressed your pleasure in lending some countenance to his transgression."
You know now how men of pleasure spend their lives, my friend, and you might write a substantial resume entitled, 'The Fool's Breviary. I am sure it would sell well." Madame Desvarennes, who had heard the last words, was no longer listening. She was lost in a deep reverie.
She remembered some April fool's candy Kitty Clark once got the most delectable looking stuff imaginable but, ugh! Her mouth burned yet when she thought of it. She ran across the hall and knocked softly at Annabel's door. Annabel was some time in answering.
They had no lack of provisions; being permitted to kill as many as they pleased of the vast herds of cattle that graze the country, on condition, merely, of rendering the hides to the owners. They attended bull-fights and horseraces; forgot all the purposes of their expedition; squandered away freely the property that did not belong to them; and, in a word, revelled in a perfect fool's paradise.
"No; one Blueskin, a fellow who frequents the Lion," answered Jack, with a degree of candour that astonished his master nearly as much as his confidence. "It was that song that put it into my head to cut my name on the beam." "A white wall is a fool's paper, Jack, remember that," rejoined Wood. "Pretty company for an apprentice to keep! pretty houses for an apprentice to frequent!
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