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I've seen him take chances that meant life or death for him and a hundred workmen and ten thousand dollars worth of material and win for his dam, for a pile of stones that was to bring money to the very men here who are howling him down. For his dam, that's wife and child to him, and they accuse him of prostituting it! Bah! You fools! Don't you know no money-getter works that way?
You're poor enough. 'Come, then, returned the nephew gaily. 'What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough. Scrooge, having no better answer ready on the spur of the moment, said, 'Bah! again; and followed it up with 'Humbug! 'Don't be cross, uncle! said the nephew.
"There, now, you are shockingly ignorant; you really don't know what apis means in Sanscrit bah!" "In Sanscrit? True; but in Latin it is " "Bee: I'll help you out." "Very well, you are an Apician, you say: expound." "Why! do I not admire Belle-bouche?" "I believe so." "Pretty mouth that is the translation?" "Yes." "A mouth like Suckling's lady-love's stay, was it Suckling? Yes: Sir John.
It is true you do not know him, since he is here unknown, and that prevents your thinking about the matter! But, bah! what matters it! All that does not prevent Charles II. from being a great king, although he has been exiled twelve years, or M. Monk from being a great captain, although he did make a voyage to Holland in a box.
"It's horrible," he groaned to himself "horrible, that's what it is. And this is being what mother calls a good son. They'll be nice and proud of me when they know. "Ah-h-h-ah! There goes that wretched old clock over the gateway again! It can't be five minutes since it chimed before. It seems to have been chiming ever since I came to bed. What time is it, I wonder? Bah! three-quarters past.
Bah! change is a thing of the past, and tragedy a myth of our forefathers; war a bad habit of old barbarians, eradicated by the spread of an enlightened philanthropy.
"Oh, yes," said Vernon impatiently, "it's very romantic and all that. Well, the woman stayed a fortnight and disappeared to-day. Miss Desmond is breaking her heart about her." "So she took her up, and she's rather young for rescue work." "Rescue work? Bah! She talks of the woman as the only girl friend she's ever had.
Ah! my friend, be as reasonable with me as you can. Let me have the best bargain possible." Aramis began to laugh. "Still agreeable, still young, still gay," said he. "You have come into my diocese to set me quarreling with grace." "Bah!" "And you know well that I was never able to resist your seductions; you will cost me my salvation, D'Artagnan." D'Artagnan bit his lips.
Some one had prophesied to him that this would be the case. "Bah!" he answered, "the poor wretches have suffered enough. I might have been transported myself, had matters turned out differently in 1870." Had he lived, it is probable that in 1886 he would have supplanted M. Grévy.
And then," added he, a little disconcerted, "it is the hour when madame wants me." "Ah! Do you teach her this thing you are professor of? What do you call it?" "Massage. We have learned it from the ancients. Yes, there she is ringing for me, and some one will come to fetch me. Shall I tell her you are here?" "No, no; I prefer to go there at once." "But you have no admission ticket." "Bah!
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