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And then he began to unfasten and fumble about his fur garment; but Sintram, filled with disgust and horror, said, "Psha! I detest such animals! Be quiet, and tell me at once who and what you yourself are." "Are you so bent upon knowing my name?" replied the little man. "Let it content you that I am master of all secret knowledge, and well versed in the most intricate depths of ancient history.
You are very close in inquiring into my secrets. Tell me, Laura; was not this young Crichton once a lover of your own?" "Psha! And do you think I cannot keep a gentleman's secret as well as you?" "What is the good of any secret, Laura, when we have been already so open? He tried his 'prentice hand on you; and then he came to me. Let us watch him, and see who'll be the third.
For me they can do nothing, unless it be that in knowing how much she loved me I may strive to be as she was." "And for your happiness." "Psha!" he exclaimed. "You must let me do her commission, Lord Hampstead. I was to bid you remember that God in His goodness has ordained that the dead after awhile shall be remembered only with a softened sorrow.
Come, I told you this was but trumpery conversation for thinking people and now I have my hand on the Ossianic Controversy." "I beg your pardon," said Lovel; "I am going to appear very silly and changeable in your eyes, Mr. Oldbuck but you seemed to think Sir Arthur might in civility expect a call from me?" "Psha! psha!
"But not ha'f so foolish as the notion that a girl has to suffer the worries and dangers of one hell of a trip on the worst sea that God ever made to try and square the things between them." Nancy shook her head. "I can't grant that," she cried quickly. "No?" "I mean oh, psha! Don't you see, or does your cynical philosophy blind you? We're fools, maybe.
"There is something very comfortable in sacred verses, Master Bunting; but you're a scoffer." "Psha, man!" said the Corporal, throwing out his right leg and leaning back, with his eyes half-shut, and his chin protruded, as he took an unusually long inhalation from his pipe; "Psha, man! send verses to the right-about fit for girls going to school of a Sunday; full-grown men more up to snuff.
But Kingsley did not confine himself altogether to the language of compliment. "Good fellow and good companion as you are, Clifford and loath as I should be to give up these pleasant evenings, still I think you very wrong in one respect. You neglect your wife." "Ha! ha! what an idea! You are not serious?" "As a judge." "Psha! She does not miss me."
"As to what that old rogue saw down in Scotland, I don't care a bit about it, Frank. He has been up in London, and telling them all, no doubt. Nasty, dirty eavesdropper! But what does it come to? Psha! When he mentioned your name I silenced him at once. What could I have done, unless I had had some friend? At any rate, he is to ask me again in writing, and then what shall I say?"
"I daresay you are wondering what brought me to such a place. A person in whom I take a great interest, an old woman, lives here. I knew her years ago. Psha! why should I condescend to explain? Look here, Mr. Sergeant" she took out her purse and produced a sovereign "take this, and drink my health!"
And then he had again expatiated on the immense success in theatrical life which would attend a partnership entered into between the skill and beauty and power of voice of Miss O'Mahony on the one side, and the energy, devotion, and capital of Mr. Moss on the other. "Psha!" had been Rachel's only reply; and so that interview had been brought to an end.
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