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Many poor spinners would have done as you did, if they had been your equals in money. Then the first speaker answered, "We can do without any of your 'equality' talk, Sam Thorpe. What the cream is, the cheese is. Chut! Where's your equality now?" Uncle told me much more but that is enough of praise for you, at once.

Bless your heart, no; but getting as tired of one swateheart as a pig of brewer's grain. Constant? Chut! When the like of that sort is away foreign, he lays up of the first girl he comes foul of." The girl laughed, and shook her head bravely, but the tears were beginning to trickle from her eyes, and the hand that held the flowers was trembling. "Don't listen to the man, my dear," said Pete.

"Wine is a serpent, and strong drink a mocker," said Cæsar. "Who'll be the new Dempster, Mr. Niplightly," said Jonaique. "Hm!" snuffled the constable, easing his helmet, "dat's a serious matter, Mr. Jelly. We'll dake our time well dake our time." "Chut! There's only one man for it," said Cæsar. "Perhaps yes, perhaps no," said the constable. "Do you mane the young Ballawhaine, Mr.

If only for one night, I have said to myself, I must stay in this of all hotels. I 'ave what do you say? touched the spot. 'In what you say, he has said, more calmly, 'there is certainly something. It is a good hotel, this of mine! The only hotel, I have assured him. The Meurice? Chut! I snap my fingers. The Ritz? Bah! Once again I snap my fingers. 'In all Paris there is no hotel like this.

The little maid smiled, and her lovely mistress said to her, "I should like to see you in my place." Then the maid laughed, saying "Be quiet, Madame, he is there." "Who?" "Your husband." "Which?" "The real one." "Chut!" said Madame. And her maid told her the whole story, wishing to keep her favour and the 12,000 crowns as well. "Oh well, he shall have his money's worth.

Never a day passes, but you bring me something, wine or fruit or some piece of dainty fare; and as for 'Tista, there is nothing he does not owe to you! All he knows, you have taught him. We can never repay you." "My dear Frau 'Lora, who thinks of such things twice? Chut! But you look ill and over-tired this evening. You have been to the town again?" "Yes." "I thought so.

My husband was there too, wearing a heavy overcoat with the collar up, and receiving from a group of insular gentlemen their cheerful prognostics of a bad passage. "'Deed, but I'm fearing it will be a dirty passage, my lord." "Chut!" said my father. "The wind's from the south-west. They'll soon get shelter."

There should have been a joke or two, a hearty word of congratulation, a little natural glorification of Ramsey, and a quiet slap at Douglas and Peel and Castletown, a few fireworks, a rip-rap or two, and some general illumination. "But sakes alive! the solemn the young Dempster was! And the melancholy! And the mystarious!" "Chut!" said Pete. "There's such a dale of comic in you, boys.

They chatter away just as if they thought we were human working-machines, without ears, or brains, or memories. This singular hallucination makes it not difficult to become acquainted with certain secrets of fashionable life which one clique would not make known to another clique for the world." "But this tittle-tattle" Esther began. "Chût, chût," cried the forewoman.

"Chut!" cried Miss Clairville, drawing the other into the salon. "I am not angry with you, child! If Henry made you his wife it was very right of him and no one shall blame you nor complain. Only had I known ah, well, it might not have made so much difference after all.