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But your sword is shorter than mine. You must wear my other one." "Rubbish! I'm not going to fight with swords!" cried Frank. "What! you mean pistols?" "I mean fists." In Honour's Cause. "Pah! like schoolboys or people in the mob." "I shan't fight with anything else," said Frank stubbornly. "You shall, sir. Now, then, name your friend." "Can't; he wouldn't go. He's such a hot, peppery fellow too."
"What do you mean?" she asked. "You love him!" he growled. "Pah! I see it in your eyes in your tremors that you do. It is for him that you are afraid, is't not?" "Why do you mock me with it?" she inquired with dignity. "I do not mock you, Hortensia. Answer me! Is it true that you love him?" "It is true," she answered steadily. "What is't to you?" "Everything!" he answered hotly. "Everything!
Further off toward the "pah," the lava had reached a group of twenty huts, which were still smoking. The Maories, forming here and there groups, contemplated the canopied summit of Maunganamu with religious awe. Kai-Koumou approached in the midst of his warriors, and Glenarvan recognized him.
"You do not believe that?" his breath clogged and hot. "It is a fancy of mine? not true?" "It is true." He caught the whisper, his face growing pale, his eyes flashing. "Then you are mine, child! What is the meaning of these paltry contradictions? Why do you evade me from day to day?" "You promised me not to speak of this again," weakly. "Pah!
"Ah, Devereux, you poison my enjoyment by the mere word 'plebeian'! Oh, what a beastly thing is a common person! a shape of the trodden clay without any alloy; a compound of dirty clothes, bacon breaths, villanous smells, beggarly cowardice, and cattish ferocity. Pah, Devereux! rub civet on the very thought!"
'Who gave you gold before he gave me power, traitor? Like that she speak. 'Do you never think of what you have lost? Then she break out in a laugh. 'Pah! Listen: if there must be killing, why not be the great Roman drunk! "Then she laugh so hard a laugh, and turn away, and go quick by me and not see me. She step into the dark, and he sit down in the chair, and look straight in front of him.
Broad faces do not easily grow thin, but his felt thin to him, and this gave him a kind of morbid satisfaction. If she knew how he was longing, how he suffered! He turned away, toward Whitehall. Two men he knew stopped to bandy a jest. One of them was just married. They, too, were off to Scotland for the twelfth. Pah!
The fire was kindled against the trunk of a giant sycamore, and as the flames waved up the shaggy bark the reflection upon the outstretched limbs and neighboring trees gave them a weird appearance that made the boys gather close to the somber-hued Pah Utah as though conscious of his ability to stand between them and evil.
"Pah for Gallagher!" cried Holmes, snapping his fingers contemptuously. "If he as much as peeped we could put him in jail, and if he sells you out you tell him for me that I'll land him in Sing Sing for a term of years. He led you into this " "He certainly did," moaned Rand. "And he's got to get you out," said Holmes. "Now, good-bye, old man.
I ought rather to have summoned Montignac by two strokes on the tray, and been at the door to receive him. But I had not waited to consider. I spoke of the advantage as soon as I noticed it, supposing that La Chatre, on seeing it, would think himself at my mercy and would come to my terms. He was taken back somewhat, it is true, but not much. "Pah!" he said "After all, I could shout to him."
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