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"Nonsense, Morgan!" I said. "Nonsense! Why, no, my boy, I reckon it's madness. If master didn't mean to have slaves why did he buy them?" "To save them from being ill-treated." "Ill-treated?" said Morgan, scornfully; "why, they're only niggers." "Well, they're men, Morgan." "Dunno so much about that, Master George.
It was you who preached of vile superstitions, and yet merely at the sight of a shadow you rush in with trembling hands and bristling hair to bid us lay it with bell, book, and candle. Where is your faith, O prophet?" It was nonsense; the heat and all my incessant political work had tried me and I was mistaken.
"Aw!" was the answer, dropped at intervals by each according to his degree of unreadiness. "Nonsense! No such thing! They're looking out to see which way the railroad is to take. Now, my lads, you can't hinder the railroad: it will be made whether you like it or not. And if you go fighting against it, you'll get yourselves into trouble. The law gives those men leave to come here on the land.
"You don't mean that you, a well-informed and sensible man, can place any faith in the nonsense written by an idiot?" "I do believe in it." "With so much the more reason, my dear chevalier, from your having orders to kill all those who do believe in it," said Raoul.
They have axes and ploughs in their hands, and seed-bags on their backs. "Nonsense." "You go very far, Nebsecht, and are not foreseeing, 'He who needlessly hurts an innocent animal shall be served in the same way by the spirits of the netherworld, says the law; but I see what you will say.
This may read like mere nonsense; but there is a point of view from which it may be safely said that there is very little absolute nonsense in the world. The story of Jack and Jill is a venerable one. In Icelandic mythology we read that Jack and Jill were two children whom the moon once kidnapped and carried up to heaven.
He did not yell and struggle now as he did when the irons were first placed upon his wrists, for the fear of the gag had taken all that nonsense out of him. His face was very pale, and he walked with his head down, and did not appear to notice any of those he passed on his way to the side.
He would not believe anything they said, however, about their reasons for fear. It was nonsense it was Deerbrook talk.
"That was considerable champagne, Minnie." "Stuff and nonsense," I said. "I was tired and it has rested me. That's all, Mr. Dick." "Sure?" "Certainly," I said with dignity, "I'm really rested, Mr. Dick. And happy I'm very happy, Mr. Dick." "Perhaps I'd better close the door," he said. "The light may be seen " "You needn't close it until I've finished talking," I said.
Surely you and papa never cry for nonsense, and things you can't have?" "Ah, my darling No. 6," cried mamma earnestly, "grown-up people may not CRY for what they want exactly, but they are just as apt to wish for what they cannot have, as you little ones are. For instance, grown-up people would constantly like to have life made easier and more agreeable to them, than God chooses it to be.
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