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"Dolores!" admonished Mrs. Gantry. "Oh, piffle!" complained the girl, drawing aside for the men to pass her. Even Mrs. Gantry was not equal to the rudeness of snubbing a caller in her own house when she had given an earl permission to bring him. But the contrast between her greetings of the two men was, to say the least, noticeable.
She stared at this a long time, then she dipped a new pen in red ink and full across it she wrote "What rotten piffle!" That is, she nearly wrote those words. What she actually put down was "What r-tt-n piffle!"
As for Appleboro not being good enough for her, that's piffle, too, p'tite Madame, and I'm surprised at you! Her own town is good enough for any girl. If it isn't, let her just pitch in and help make it good enough, if she's worth her salt. Not that Mary Virginia isn't scrumptious, though. Lordy, who'd think this was the same kid that used to bump my head?"
They always keep him in a place where it doesn't make any difference whether he quits or not." The leader of the boys said: "Aw, piffle, cut it out. We might as well be scrubbing the floor as listening to this talk. Come on, fellows." He led them back, one of them protesting that he would never scrub a floor for any man. He went ahead and scrubbed the floor still saying that he wouldn't.
"I know. It does sound rather piffle. Daresay I'm wrong. The kids will size him up." When Carter Van Meter came to tell his hostess good-by, he smiled winningly. "This has been very jolly, Mrs. Lorimer. It was good of you to let me come. Mother asked me to say how much she appreciated it. But" he hesitated "May I come in some afternoon when just you and Miss Honor are here?"
Kenny drove him to the Finlake station. "This car has been a godsend," he said. "And Garry's wired me to keep it. He's going to the coast." "When?" "Thursday." Kenny's eyes were moist and grateful. "Ah, Frank, darlin', you're a jewel!" "Piffle!" countered Frank. "Kenny, old dear, I think you hit a chicken. If at any time," he added at the station, "you feel the need of me, I want you to wire.
What's all this piffle got to do with our mine?" "If you only had a little brains," sighed Johnson disconsolately, "I'd soon find out who had it in for you, and why. It's dreadful inconvenient to have a pardner like that.
"You've made up your mind to go to Panama; haven't you?" "Well," began his chum slowly, "I haven't fully decided " "Oh, piffle!" cried Joe with a laugh. "Excuse my slang, but I know just how it is," he proceeded. "You've made up your mind to go, and you're getting all the advance information you can, to spring it on me. I know your tricks. Well, you won't go without me; will you?"
Tump's intellectual method was to talk sense just long enough to gain his companion's ear, and then produce something absurd and quash the tentative interest. Siner turned away from him and said, "Piffle." Tump was defensive at once. "'T ain't piffle, either! I's talkin' sense, nigger."
"Thou shalt not kill" piffle! In the shipyards of all civilized countries they are laying to-day the keels of Dreadnoughts and of Superdreadnoughts. Dear friends, I who am about to die, salute you with "Piffle!"
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