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Fourthly, after they are a little entered, they shall start some theological queries, far enough off from the matter in hand, and bandy it about pro and con till they lose it in the heat of scuffle. And here they shall cite their doctors invincible, subtle, seraphic, cherubic, holy, irrefragable, and such like great names to confirm their several assertions.
"Now," he said, quietly, "it's time we stopped this nonsense." Ann Veronica was about to reply, when he went on, with a still more deadly quiet: "I am not here to bandy words with you. Let us have no more of this humbug. You are to come home." "I thought I explained " "I don't think you can have heard me," said her father; "I have told you to come home." "I thought I explained " "Come home!"
Their noses are all hooked, and hooked alike. They all resemble each other so much that one could almost believe they were of one family. Their women are plump and pretty, and do smile upon a Christian in a way which is in the last degree comforting. What a funny old town it is! It seems like profanation to laugh and jest and bandy the frivolous chat of our day amid its hoary relics.
'Now let us bandy words no more, said mother, very sweetly; 'nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken; as I do many and many's the time, when I think of my good husband. But now let us hear from Uncle Reuben what he would have us do to remove this disgrace from amongst us, and to satisfy him of his goods.
I don't think I've ever seen bandy played quite in that vein before." Winn sank into one of the leather armchairs and lighted a cigarette. "As a matter of fact," he said, "I played like a fluke. I am not up to Mavorovitch's form at all. I just happened to be on my game; he would have had me down and out otherwise." Miss Marley nodded; she was wondering what had put Winn on his game.
But now," she bent over, severing my bonds with a flint blade, "go; do exactly as I bade you, and no longer bandy words with me." "But the lady within the lodge?" I ventured anxiously, as I struggled to my feet, standing erect before her. "She bides elsewhere." "It will be hard for her alone " "What is all that to you, sirrah?" she interrupted haughtily.
THE ELDERLY GENTLEMAN. I am not here to bandy quibbles and paradoxes with a girl who blunders over the greatest names in history. I am in earnest. I am treating a solemn theme seriously. I never said that the son of a man six feet high would be twelve feet high. ZOO. You didn't mean that? THE ELDERLY GENTLEMAN. Most certainly not. ZOO. Then you didn't mean anything.
"I undertake nothing," shouted the laird, in his feeble, woolly, yet harsh voice. "Then I refuse to carry your message. I will be no bearer of that from which, as soon as delivered, I should dissuade." "Allow me to ask, are you a minister of the gospel, and stir up a child against her own father?" "I am not here to bandy words with you, Mr. Galbraith. It is nothing to me what you think of me.
He began to choke with anger. "All right. I suppose you will invite me to be present." "I will compel you to leave this town." "What! After forming so strong an attachment?" "You are not a gentleman, sir." "No? Well, I have married into a pretty good family." "I will not bandy words with you. But I will see you, and perhaps when you least expect it." "Very well.
"This is a picture o' the deputation that waited on some o' the members o' the Toon Cooncil at lest election an' priggit wi' them to bide in, altho' they were awfu' anxious to hae dune wi't." "That's like a picture o' a bunghole withoot a barrel roond it," said ane o' Dauvid's laddies. "There's naebody there, Sandy," said Bandy Wobster. "Ay, but that's the deputation tho'," said Sandy.
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