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She loathed how the chemicals of this infatuation had been detonated in the Leaning Tower of Gabriele causing major structural damage. Furthermore, the smoke of the aftermath distorted the world in such a fervent red mist. If she hadn't been on her guard or had been born a half-wit she could have easily believed in love and bliss at every turn.
This gave him a keen sense of the poverty of the land, and he bought of the boys who came aboard such abundance of wild red raspberries, in all manner of birch-bark canoes and goblets and cornucopias, that he was obliged to make presents of them to the very dealers whose stock he had exhausted, and he was in treaty with the local half-wit very fine, with a hunchback, and a massive wen on one side of his head to take charity in the wild fruits of his native province, when the crowd about him was gently opened by a person who advanced with a flourishing bow and a sprightly "Good morning, good morning, sir!"
"They always shut up and look rejus when I come round. But I know enough to sabez that bunch even if I am a half-wit." "I'm not so sure you are a half-wit, Johnny," said Douglas sincerely. The old man's face brightened. "That's just the way I feel about it too, Douglas. You're the only person in the Valley understands me. You could have my shirt, Doug." Douglas nodded.
A little less business acumen, a good bit less greed and cruelty, will tell on future character to the comfort of all concerned. Policy in the hands of a diplomat is like a sharp sword in the grasp of an able fencer, but policy in the hands of fools, is like a good knife wielded by a half-wit.
Always he kept a screen of leaves between them, less needed soon, as the unconscious guide led the way out of the sunlight into the depths of gloom. The cave at last! But the half-wit, Ferd? Had he guessed its secret? On and on, it seemed interminably. Now and then the dwarf would pause and listen, but at every halt there was utter silence behind him.
"Well, what dost thou want, youngster? Is a man never to be rid of half-wit boys in this place!" "Please, Captain, the governor desires you to come in haste to a sudden Council. The Indians are come in, and methinks" "And who in Beelzebub's name cares what thou thinkst!" shouted the captain. "Begone before I box thy malapert ears."
Good Lord, if a man so much as bows to me in the street without asking a favour, I begin to think that he is either a half-wit or a ne'er-do-well." "At least I want nothing for myself," laughed Stephen, a trifle sharply. I've got nothing to give you that you would take, and so you are wishing Berkeley on me for the penitentiary board."
Seem's if the Evil One had been let loose, here at Sobrante, when the word of a half-wit poor half, at that is held proof against the entire life of an honest old man."
"I will tell him. I won't be queer. I don't care what they think. I won't stand it." Elmer Cowley ran out of the woods leaving the half-wit sitting on the log before the fire. Presently the old man arose and climbing over the fence went back to his work in the corn. "I'll be washed and ironed and starched," he declared. "Well, well, I'll be washed and ironed." Mook was interested.
Bill was a half-wit but as strong as an ox; and, once set upon a task, managed it in a way that had given him a secure position in the community. He carried mail into the remotest districts when there was any to carry. He "toted" heavy loads and gathered gossip and spilled it liberally.
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