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"Robert," she said, softly, "I'm not sure that Elizabeth will accept his sacrifice." "What! Not accept it? Nonsense! Of course she'll accept it. I should have doubts of her sanity if she didn't. If Blair had been half as much of a man as his mother, he'd have made the 'sacrifice, as you call it, long ago. Helena, you're too extreme. Duty is well enough, but don't run it into the ground." Mrs.
"Why, let them, my lad. You were doing no harm, and they can do you none. Now let's finish our breakfast." "Shall I stay in, uncle?" said Aleck. "Tom Bodger slept down in the boat last night, and I wanted to take him some breakfast." "Go and take it then, of course." "And then stay in?" "No, no; nonsense. Now don't bother me any more."
"Ah," ejaculated Dick, "this is just what I feared might happen! Still, it is perhaps better than being killed outright, and " "Hush!" interrupted Grosvenor, sharply. "Listen to that fellow giving orders to his men: I'll be shot if he isn't speaking Hebrew or something that sounds uncommonly like it!" "Hebrew?" echoed Dick. "Nonsense! Surely you don't mean it?"
Indeed I owe it to her. So, after walking once or twice briskly across the floor, I took my hat and sallied out, determined not to return till I had purchased something. It was not my first attempt. I went into one bookseller's shop after another. I found plenty of fairy tales and such nonsense, fit for the generality of children nine or ten years old. 'These, said I, 'will never do.
The lieutenant had been very meek, but now his face flushed, and he looked into the doctor's eyes. "I guess I won't have it amputated," he said. "Nonsense, man! Nonsense! Nonsense!" cried the doctor. "Come along, now. I won't amputate it. Come along. Don't be a baby."
And so, my dears, your happiness is my happiness and Oh, goodness me! here I stand talking sentimental nonsense while our Small Porges is simply dropping asleep as he stands." "'Fraid I am a bit tired," Small Porges admitted, "but it's been a magnif'cent night.
All Angela's talk about a man's duty to his country would be very well in time of war, when there was glory to be got; but it was nonsense in ordinary times, where one man would do as well as another, to risk his life in a small expedition, and when it was distinctly advisable not to be that one.
"Come, come," she exclaimed, "don't yer talk like that, frightening this little gal in that way; you just quiet yourself, and then we'll see yer safe home." "Home!" was the response. "I have none, only the streets or the river." "Stuff and nonsense!" cried practical Sally. "No home!" repeated little Pollie; "how sad!"
That is the reason you have done something, and I haven't." "If you want my advice my serious advice," the K. C. said, quietly, "you will make yourself a nuisance to that right woman, whoever she is, until she marries you if only to get rid of you." "All sorts of things in the way," Lord Arranmore declared. "You see, I was married abroad." Mr. Hennibul looked up quickly. "Nonsense!"
These things, which he recognizes as the merest commonplaces when he is off the stage, he derides as utter nonsense when he is in the midst of a representation.
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