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And for all these reasons-although I had a fine, dizzy, muddle-headed joy in my surroundings, and longed, and tried, and always failed, to lay hands on the fish that darted here and there about me, swift as humming-birds yet I fancy I was rather relieved than otherwise when Bain brought me back to the ladder and signed to me to mount. And there was one more experience before me even then.
I felt the same way both mornings at first when I held my paper in my hand and thought about what I had read, about the government's going down on its knees, and about God's striking Lord Devonport dead. The first feeling was one of profound resentment, shame a huge, helpless, muddle-headed anger.
It is careless of coming national cessation and depopulation, careless of the insurgent spirit beneath the acquiescences of Mrs. Smith, careless of its own inevitable defeat in the economic struggle, careless because it can understand none of these things; it is obstinately muddle-headed, asserting what it conceives to be itself against the universe and all other John Smiths whatsoever.
"Do you realise this is the first time we have been alone together this month?" "No? Really?" She glanced up absently. "Never mind that muddle-headed old Chelmer. I dare say she only wants another hundred or two." He came over, took the letter and her hand with it. "I have a great secret to tell you." Now he had captured her attention as well as her hand. Her eyes sparkled.
"Oh, good er good pictures and music and all that sort of thing!" he vaguely explained. I couldn't help laughing at him. "But, Dinky-Dunk, don't you think Babe's a month or so too young to take up Debussy and the Post-Impressionists, you big, foolish, adorable old muddle-headed captor of helpless ladies' hearts!" And I firmly announced that he could never, never get rid of me.
Then he asked me some more questions, and I answered 'em best I could, and well, I guess that's 'bout all." "Did you tell him that I said his visits were a torture?" "Why " the Captain shuffled his feet uneasily "seems to me I said somethin' 'bout it not jest that, you know, but somethin'. Fact is, I was so muddle-headed and upset that I don't know exactly what I did say.
And you see through them and laugh at them and do it. It's not enough to see clearly; I'm muddle-headed and stupid, and not worth a quarter of you, but I have tried to do what seemed right at the time. And you your brain and your insight are splendid. But when you see what's right you're too idle to do it. You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments.
The denial rang in Stud's ears as he thrust his head into the black opening, entering, amidships, as the former muddle-headed explorer had done. "That girl's a trump the girl with eyes the color of the little 'heal-all', that blue flower we pick up here in May! A trump! But so's little Jess, too!"
Lover's hero; like that of the Obeah-woman, when she tried to bribe the white gentleman with half a dozen of bottled beer; a case of muddle-headed craft and elaborate silliness, which keeps no proportion between the means and the end; so common in insane persons; frequent, too, among the lower Irish, such as Handy Andy; and very frequent, I am afraid, among the Negroes.
When Parliament meets in February I shall either be comfortably dead or so uncomfortably alive that I shall not care. Ce que c'est que de nous! I wonder how far Simon de Gex and I are deceiving each other? There is no deception about my old friend Latimer, who called on me a day or two ago. He is on the Stock Exchange, and, muddle-headed creature that he is, has been "bearing" the wrong things.
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