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And so on, clause after clause, with others to be added, until the whole sentence becomes as long as a fishing-rod. But apart from the fiddlededee, is the thing he states believable? It is a charming picture, and one would like to know more about that "chaunt," that "wild melody."
Ferdinand did not forget his zealous friend, who whispered hope when all was black. The little waiter chuckled as he put his ten guineas in his pocket. 'You see, sir, he said, 'I was quite right. Knowed your friends would stump down. Fancy a nob like you being sent to quod! Fiddlededee! You see, sir, you weren't used to it.
Doria. "You want manners, my dear boy. I think it never happened to me before that a man consulted his watch in my presence." Richard mildly replied that he had an engagement at a particular hour, up to which he was her servant. "Fiddlededee!" the vivacious lady sang. "Now I've got you, I mean to keep you. Oh! I've heard all about you.
As everybody knows who has read that famous book, Boswell's Life of Johnson, Dr. Johnson was a man who always said just what he thought, and had no patience with anything like stupidity. The expression fiddlededee, another way of telling a person that he is talking nonsense, was made by him.
To her indeed the young married hero spoke almost indecorously, and that which his delicacy withheld him from speaking to Clare. He could provoke nothing more responsive from the practical animal than "Pooh-pooh! Tush, tush! and Fiddlededee!" "Really," Mrs. Doria said to her intimates, "that boy's education acts like a disease on him. He cannot regard anything sensibly.
"Anyhow, I know I can never get to handle them like that and that's no way to feel! And I'm ashamed of myself because I can't be detached and heavenly and absorbed," she added, rising to go. "Everybody always is, it seems, but just me." "Fiddlededee, my dear!" scoffed Aunt Hannah, patting Billy's downcast face.
'How are you, Levison? responded our hero in an easy voice. 'Any news? Mr. Levison shrugged his shoulders, as he murmured, 'Times is very bad, Captin. 'Oh! I dare say, said Ferdinand; 'I wish they were as well with me as with you. By Jove, Levison, you must be making an immense fortune. Mr. Levison shook his head, as he groaned out, 'I work hard, Captin; but times is terrible. 'Fiddlededee!
"Fiddlededee!" ejaculated the irate Aunt Hannah, even more sharply. "I hope you have too much good sense to mind what Kate says, Billy." "Yes, I know," sighed the girl; "but of course I can see some things for myself, and I suppose I did make a little fuss about his going to New York the other night.
Hotchkiss, the gentleman by the radiator, is ready to place ten to one odds on you. And some of us have still other theories." "Gentlemen," Sullivan said slowly, "I give you my word of honor that I did not kill Simon Harrington, and that I do not know who did." "Fiddlededee!" cried Hotchkiss, bustling forward. "Why, I can tell you " But McKnight pushed him firmly into a chair and held him there.
Why, I love it, dear. You know I do. But you don't need this house now, Billy." "Oh, yes, I do," retorted Billy, airily. "I'm going to keep it up, and I want you here. "Fiddlededee, Billy! As if I'd let you keep up this house just for me," scorned Aunt Hannah. "'Tisn't just for you. It's for for lots of folks." "My grief and conscience, Billy! What are you talking about?"
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