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No, upon reflection, I think I should rather describe it as a conglomeration of piffle, patriotism and pyrotechnics. Well, Madam Do-as-you-would-be-done-by, what would you have? You must give people what they want."
When a girl has as much intelligence as we needn't name names, need we? she resents perpetual chaff and piffle. They bore her seem to her a flagrant waste of time. Her mind tends to scorn delights and live laborious days a tendency which rectifies itself later as a rule. All the same in avoiding frivolity, one must not rush to the other extreme and be heavy in hand.
We have needed to get away from the professional politician. I went in, without much hope of election, to well, you can say to blaze a trail. It is not being elected that counts with me, so much as to show my willingness to serve." Old Anthony recovered his voice. "The Cardews made this town, sir," he barked. "Willingness to serve, piffle!
If the poor Mark wanted to remain in his Room and read something by William Dean Howells, the Friend would compel him to put on his Low-Front and go out to a War-Dance and meet a Bunch of Kioodles who wore No. 6 Hats and talked nothing but Piffle. The Friend was always making Business Engagements for him and then letting him know about it later on.
"That's what they used to say in court when my father had his famous right-of-way case with Lord Piffle of Doom; and from what I remember there didn't seem any repartee to it." "There certainly isn't one from me," I said. "Let's go," she said.
Are we under an obligation, an inevitable necessity, to waste half an hour a day in skimming through the futilities of politics and the piffle of the news columns? Is your imagination incapable of conceiving a man who reads nothing but reviews and scientific publications? "The fact is rare, I admit," he continued. "But the rarity of a fact is no proof against it.
Picking himself out of the gutter, he placed his thumb to his nose, and wiggled his finger in active and reprehensible symbolism, whilst enlarging upon his original critique, in a series of shrill roars: "Rotten! Punk! No good! Swash! Flubdub! Sacré tas de de piffle!" Already his vocabulary was rich and plenteous, though, in those days, tainted by his French origin.
Such piffle always drives an English audience wild. Therefore the words of Puck's attorney were received with tumultuous applause. I was condemned at the age of twenty-six months, when I could prove that I still was ignorant of the very meaning of the word, Tom. But from all this I gathered that it was on account of such practices that Albion was called Old England.
Register fear, I say just as though you expected to fall into the water the next moment. Oh, piffle! Not at all like it! not at all like it!" He was a dreadfully noisy, pugnacious man. Finally the girl said: "If you think I am not scared, Mr. Grimes, you are very much mistaken. I am. I expect to slip off here any moment Oh!" The last was a shriek of alarm.
With all the best and biggest part of his life before him, with youth and health and loving parents, and some good friends ready to help him, wanting to die! Piffle! Do you know, I just wanted to slap that fellow on the back and bring him to his senses. Make good? Of course he could. "Come back?" Sure! There is just one thing to do with a failure, fellows.
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