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There is now not a man on our side of the Sandusky; and our loss of 2,600 is serious indeed, but, seeing how much has been accomplished, not excessive. The enemy's horse was cut to pieces. Piffle slept on the ground that he had held all day.
"Do you remember a fortnight ago I told you some one, some Belgian had written a beautiful poem and sent it to me for one of our newspapers? I showed it to you at the time and you said you said 'it was well enough, but it did not seem to have much point." Vivie did remember having glanced very perfunctorily at some effusion in typewriting which had seemed unobjectionable piffle.
The broker, who sat down again, made a little dejected gesture. "I guess the game is up. They're going back on us," he said. "In a way, I don't blame them. The Hogarth people have scared them off. They're not big enough." "Have you any idea as to what they'll do?" Weston asked. Wannop nodded. "Oh, yes," he said. "They'll hold out a month or two, and piffle away at the adit to save appearances.
Under his thin skin of morality which he has had polished onto him, he is the same savage that he was ten thousand years ago. Morality is a social fund, an accretion through the painful ages. The new-born child will become a savage unless it is trained, polished, by the abstract morality that has been so long accumulating. "Thou shalt not kill" piffle! They are going to kill me to-morrow morning.
In a scientific clash with the gloves he would soon find out what a miserable duffer I was. "And Jappy, here, is no slouch. He's as shifty as the dickens." "The shiftier the better," said I, with great aplomb. Jasper, Jr., stuck out his chest modestly, and said: "Oh, piffle, Colly." But just the same I hadn't the least doubt in my mind that Jasper could "put it all over me."
We wish instead to offer them the full protection of the country in which they have chosen to do productive work." "Very interesting," Norgate remarked. "I have heard this point of view before. Once I thought it common sense. To-day I think it academic piffle.
"On water, no." "Thanks. In other words, you believe our chances equal?" "So equal that all this war-scare is piffle. But I rather like to see you English get up in the air occasionally. It will do you good. You've an idea because you walloped Napoleon that you're the same race you were then, and you are not. The English-speaking races, as the first soldiers, have ceased to be."
But I had seen a butterfly's wing save him alive; and so I did not doubt now that a little bird's nest could weigh down the balance which would put him definitely upon the side of good and of God. "I think there is a way," said Laurence, gravely, "and that is to beat them to it and stand them off. All the rest is talk and piffle the only way to save is to save.
Why should you keep on producing these cheap little plays they foist on you? Oh, I know you always score a personal success in the wahst of them, but they've never given you a Big character and the play, outside of you, is always piffle. Of coss, you know what I've always wanted you to do, what I've constantly insisted in print: Rostand.
I didn't know Look here," he exploded, "you're not going to be a damned fool, are you?" "I'm not going to revive Judson Clark, Bassett. I don't owe him anything. Let him die a decent death and stay dead." "Oh, piffle!" Bassett groaned. "Don't start that all over again. Don't pull any Enoch Arden stuff on me, looking in at a lighted window and wandering off to drive a taxicab."
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