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"Well, there hasn't but two died; the rest'll live," said Fly, swinging one of them around by its tail, as if it had been a tame cherry. Just then Grace came and stood in the parlor doorway. "O, fie!" said she; "what work! Ma doesn't allow that cage in the parlor. You just carry it out, Fly Clifford." Miss Thistledown Flyaway looked up at her sister shyly, out of the corners of her eyes.
Yet who would fancy her thoughtless when she wrote in her journal: "Fie, Paula! You have taken no trouble. Mother had a right to expect a better report. However, to be happy, one must forget what cannot be altered." In reality, she was not in the least "featherheaded."
"We certainly do, Mr. Kendrick," Hugh Benson assured the visitor eagerly. "It's our chance to have an expert opinion." "It will be even more than that," said Alfred Carson. "It will be the opinion of the master of all experts in the business world." "Fie, Mr.
Ah, that he had been foolish insensate to confide himself in her love! Was he not old and grey in comparison to such youth such freshness a venerable dotard of thirty-five? What had he with dreams of love and marriage? Fie, then. He humiliated himself in the dust beneath her mignon feet. He invited her to crush him with those cruel feet.
They tell, also, that in the old days, after putting up the shop-windows for the night, Jurgen was passing the Cistercian Abbey, on his way home: and one of the monks had tripped over a stone in the roadway. He was cursing the devil who had placed it there. "Fie, brother!" says Jurgen, "and have not the devils enough to bear as it is?"
Bezan, whence come you with so bright a face?" asked a brother officer, as he entered his quarters in the barracks of the Plaza des Armes. "From wooing a fair and most beautiful maid," said the soldier, most honestly; though perhaps he told the truth as being the thing least likely to be believed by the other. "Fie, fie, Bezan. You in love, man? A soldier to marry? By our lady, what folly!
"Bhima said, 'Fie on the might of my arms and fie on the Gandiva of Falguni, inasmuch as thy hands, red before, now become covered with corns. I would, without ado, have crushed the head of Kichaka intoxicated with the pride of sovereignty. When, O Krishna, I beheld thee kicked by Kichaka, I conceived at that instant a wholesale slaughter of the Matsyas.
Oh, ye poltroons, to fly me at the first glimpse of danger! And thou, Pedro Gomez, my coachman these ten years, fie upon thee!" "Most noble Senor," said the man, trembling and bowing, "I did but run to find assistance." "Thou liest, knave. Thou didst run to save thine own skin. But I will remember ye when we are safe in Oaxaca.
"What?" cried Señora excitedly. "You don't really mean to say that you still love her?" "I do," answered Felipe fiercely, driving his heel furiously into the ground. For some moments neither spoke. Then a flush of anger mounted to Señora's brow and she cried: "Fie! Don Felipe! Have you forgotten your self-respect?
"Was that somebody a boy of her own age?" Oh, fie! mere boys still schoolboys could only be looked upon as playfellows or comrades. Of course she considered Fred Fred, for example! Frederic d'Argy as a brother, but how different he was from her ideal.
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