Those M&D words 6: Simpleton-Silver

[Ya Sam]

""If you mean that you envy his openness as to his Desires,— I collect there 
are things you yourself may wish to do, that you haven't quite the Words 
for?" And gazing at him quite steadily, too.
"I?" Mason's Soles beginning to ache, his Brain unable to muster a thought. 
What he does not, consequently, understand, is that, having reckon'd him 
harmless, she has decided to get in a bit of exercise, in that endless 
Refining which the Crafts of Coquetry demand, using Mason as a sort of 
Practice-Dummy.
"You did have me going, Florinda."
"Well I hope so, I'm sure. Tell me, then,— are you still gazing at the Stars 
for Simpleton-Silver?"
"You remember that?""

Something idiomatic, like fool's gold?

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