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"I don't know." She shook her head. "But the sound pleased him, so I'm going to give him some calomel to-morrow under the new name. It's nonsense to say there's nothing in a name. There's money in it, cure in it, and comfort of mind. Why don't you sit down?" Miss Gibbie walked over to the library-table, took up a magazine, opened it, put it down and took up another.
It was Cathelineau made a soldier of my brother, not my brother who made a soldier of him. Henri Larochejaquelin was only a follower of Cathelineau." "A Marquis obey a poor postillion! Yes, you stuffed him full with such nonsense as that! You made him fancy himself a General! You cannot fool me so easily. My son was not a companion for noble men and noble ladies.
Madame F To return to what we were saying, how is it that the men who are strongest, most courageous, most manly soldiers, in fact are precisely those who have most beard? Madame H That is nonsense, for then the pioneers would be braver than the Generals; and, in any case, there is not in France, I am sure, a General with as much beard as a Capuchin. You have never looked at a Capuchin then?
I am only going on the breakwater for a few minutes. You know I like a stormy night quite as much as a fine one." "I shall be miserable till you come home, papa." "Nonsense, Connie. You don't think your father hasn't sense to take care of himself! Or rather, Connie, for I grant that is poor ground of comfort, you don't think I can go anywhere without my Father to take care of me?"
"But I am really studying medicine; it is to be my profession," persisted Nan fearlessly, though she was sorry that she had spoiled the harmony of the little company. "And my whole heart is in it, Aunt Nancy." "Nonsense, my dear," returned Miss Prince, who had recovered her self-possession partially.
'What have I been doing? he said, as, with the other's assistance, he got up into a sitting position and looked stupidly about him. 'It isn't true, that is it, I really saw Good God no, it can't be; it's too horrible. I must have dreamt it. 'Nonsense, my dear fellow, nonsense! I should have thought you would have had better nerves than that. Come, take a nip of this, and pull yourself together.
But I digress. I only put in these words to show you in case you had any dissolving doubts remaining upon the matter, that the kind of stuff you read is very often all nonsense, and that you must not take things for granted merely because they are printed. I have watched you doing it from time to time, and have been torn between pity and anger. But all that is neither here nor there.
Narrow indeed is the boundary which divides unfeminine flippancy from the graceful nonsense which good authority and our own feelings pronounce to be "exquisite."
At the end of the half-hour he caught Vi by the arms and lifted her to her feet. "Come on," he said. Vi stared at him as one half-awakened. "I don't want to go anywhere," she said. "I'm very well here." "Nonsense!" said Leighton, "you don't realize what you're doing to yourself. On my word, you look positively puttyish." "Puttyish!" cried Vi, a flush of anger rising to her face.
No difficulty can exist but in the one quarter; and the fact is, he added, steadily, 'unless I have that note before I leave to-morrow-morning, I'll assume that you wish to be off, Captain Lake, and I will adapt myself to circumstances. 'You may have it now, said the captain, with a fierce carelessness. 'D d nonsense! Who could have fancied any such stupid hurry?
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