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Skimmerhorn recognized, in one of the clergymen, his beloved pastor, and proceeded, in a pleasant, off-hand manner, and a loud voice, to give a few of the reasons which inclined him to pronounce the panorama a humbug. "Being deadheads," sarcastically observed Tiffles to Marcus Wilkeson, "of course they come early, and take the best seats."
There's decision in the fellow! They say his father's a bookbinder in London!" "Yes, sir." "You know better! I don't want humbug, Armour! I'm not fond of it!" "You told me people said his father was a bookbinder, and I said 'Yes, sir'!" "You know as well as I do it's a damned lie! The boy is mine. He belongs neither to bookbinder nor blacksmith!" "You'll allow me a small share in him, I hope!
He'd have put off thinking about it until about an hour before, and then would have made all his arrangements and done the whole business quietly and respectably, without humbug, but without any flashness either. You couldn't put him wrong, or make him do or say anything that was out of place. However, this time nobody was going to be hung or took or anything else.
"You are uncomfortable, Mr. Mole." "Not at all; nerves of adamant, Harry." The latter laughed. Never was there such an audacious humbug as Isaac Mole. "You see that frame, sir, beside the wizard's chair?" said Girdwood. "Yes," replied Mr. Mole; "what of it?" "He showed us some marvels there last time." "What is it?" "A magic mirror."
The use of different terms is very curious in travelling through North Africa, and each country has its peculiar Arabic word, the words being all more or less classical. Perhaps no word is so much used in Ghadames and The Mountains as the epithet batel باطل "vain, useless," &c., and really answers in its use to something like our tremendous "Humbug."
Alas, it was I! A boy in the gallery cried in a loud tone, "It's all an infernal humbug," just as Dennis, waving his hand, commanded silence, and tried No. 4: "I agree, in general, with my friend the other side of the room." The poor Governor doubted his senses, and crossed to stop him not in time, however.
"I assure you I took all I required," he declared with unnecessary vehemence. "At least drink your share, to please me," she murmured. "You wished to humbug me," he grumbled. "If you will take the first half I will take the second." And they settled it that way. The few mouthfuls of tepid water gave them new life. One sense can deceive the others.
Thistlewood, who was, perhaps, the most calm and collected of all, just before he was turned off, said, "We are now going to discover the great secret." Ings, the moment before he was choked, was singing "Scots wha ha' wi' Wallace bled." Now there was no humbug about those men, nor about many more of the same time and of the same principles.
It was observable, however, that the doctor such a humbug in scientific matters, that he had perhaps bewildered himself seemed to have a sort of faith in the efficacy of the recipe which had so strangely come to light, provided the true flower could be discovered; but that flower, according to Doctor Portsoaken, had not been seen on earth for many centuries, and was banished probably forever.
After this the three young ones, discussing the matter among themselves, had made up their minds that Lady Anna was no cousin of theirs, but "a humbug." When, however, they saw her their hearts relented, and the girl became soft, and the boys became civil. "Papa," said Minnie Lovel, on the second day, "I hope she is our cousin." "I hope so too, my dear." "I think she is.
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