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I got muddled up among you somehow and said, `For the life of me I am not able to tell one of you from Adam!" "Well?" said Whipcord. "Well, what!" said Doubleday, savagely "The joke?" "Why, that was the joke, you blockhead! But we can't expect a poor fellow like you to see it. I say, the Field-Marshal's behind time. I'll give him two minutes, and then we'll start without him."
For an hour he waited; then there was turmoil on the stairway; horses were surely coming up. At the door a thick voice explained the diversion. The hostler had again arrived, with an hour of increased drunkenness pulling mercilessly at his erratic legs. "John Porter's gal 'sh here, an' an' " the hostler wrestled with the mental exercise that had been entrusted to his muddled brain.
"Not much; but I've seen the doctor again this morning." "You told me yesterday that he said you were not to dare to come to him any more." "Yesterday! Why, that was four days ago." "Nonsense! That would have been before the duel." "I say, Frank, are you going out of your mind?" "I don't know," said the boy wearily. "My head's muddled with want of sleep." "Muddled? I should think it is.
His name was Bernard Harper, and' 'It's awfully interesting, said Frances, 'but I'm afraid I'm getting rather muddled. Your grandfather what was he, then, to Lady Myrtle? 'I'll begin at the other end, said Margaret; 'that will make it plainer. There was a Lord Elvedon who had two sons and a daughter; the daughter was Lady Myrtle.
Me dear boy, me dear fellow, me dear friend;" and then with a look of muddled curiosity, fairly broke down with, "I know your face, me dear dear friend, but, bedad, I've forgot your name." Five years of constant punch had passed since Pen and Costigan met.
Everything was muddled from morn till night, from year's end to year's end. As children came the living indoors became harder, and the work out of doors still more laborious. If a farmer can put away fifty pounds a year, after paying his rent and expenses, if he can lay by a clear fifty pounds of profit, he thinks himself a prosperous man.
I've kept my head clear, and that's how I've muddled theirs. They never get next to anything until I've cleaned up and dusted. Why, honest to God, I can open any box made, easy as easy, just like I can put it all over any bull alive!
And, indeed, it was not aimed at him personally, nor at his wife personally, but at the great mass of thought or of incoherent, muddled emotion that passed for thought which the Anti-Potters had agreed, for brevity's sake, to call 'Potterism. Potterism had very certainly not been created by the Potters, and was indeed no better represented by the goods with which they supplied the market than by those of many others; but it was a handy name, and it had taken the public fancy that here you had two Potters linked together, two souls nobly yoked, one supplying Potterism in fictional, the other in newspaper, form.
It was found that all his property had been muddled away in speculations, and was represented by valueless shares in different bubble companies.
In fact, you were more than once a trifle shall we say 'muddled. Not to put too fine a point upon it, you were on your way to the deuce. I know it, for I've seen it so often before, and you know it too." "I believe you're right there," assented Holmes.
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