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You knew that he would not, on that account, do justice to me." "He asked me, George." "Psha! now you have ruined me, and you might have saved me." "But I will save you still, if he has left the estate to me. I do not desire to take it from you. As God in heaven sees me, I have never ceased to endeavour to protect your interests here at Vavasor.
Thereupon the Emperor proclaimed his son the Emperor Napoleon II. "L'Empereur est mort, vive l'Empereur!" shouted Prince Lucien. Psha! not a soul echoed the words: the play was played, and as for old Lafayette and his "permanent" representatives, a corporal with a hammer nailed up the door of their spouting-club, and once more Louis Stanislas Xavier rolled back to the bosom of his people.
There were times and moods when, in Byron's language, it was judicious to reply "Psha! to hear is to obey," and this was such a period. I broke the black wax, and the epistle proved to be from the very gentleman whom I was to be dispatched per mail to qualify next morning for surgical assistance. "Out with it!" roared my father, as I unclosed the foldings of the paper; "What is the signature?
I suppose I must not see you in the morning, alone?" "Well, I suppose not. If I can get down to prayers after having all my things packed up, it will be as much as I can do." "And if I begged for half an hour as a last kindness " "I certainly should not grant it. Go and ask your mother whether such a request would be reasonable." "Psha!" "Ah, but it's not psha!
He wanted to reach out and grip the other's hand, and tell him all that his words meant to him. But he refrained. Another man's secret was involved, and that was sufficient. His lips were sealed. Bull stirred restlessly. "Oh, psha!" he cried at last, with a force that displayed the tremendous feeling he could no longer deny. "I know what you think, Bat. I'm crazy. Well, maybe I am.
He extended his blue-tanned hand with that air of Oriental spaciousness which distinguishes the native-born American, and met the visitor's grasp expertly. "Psha! I forgot I'd no card on me; but my name's Zigler Laughton G. Zigler. An American? If Ohio's still in the Union, I am, Sir. But I'm no extreme States'-rights man.
I could chant for her the wild chorus that rang in the disheveled Eleusinian revel: I could tell her and I would, the watchword never known but to one woman, the Saban Queen, which Hiram breathed in the abysmal ear of Solomon You don't attend. Psha! you have drunk too much wine!"
"I remember an old lady who could not bear to be told of deaths. 'Psha! Pshaw! she would exclaim. 'Bring me no tales of funerals! Talk of births and of those who are likely to be blest with them! These are the joys which gladden old hearts and fill youthful ones with ecstasy!
After a while he got up and went off to his wife's apartment, the room in which she used to prepare her triumphs and where now she contemplated her disappointments. "I have had the Duke with me," he said. "What; at last?" "I do not know that he could have done any good by coming sooner." "And what does his Grace say?" "He thinks that our days are numbered." "Psha! is that all?
If this succeeds he will then destroy the canal, the further to hamper their movements." "Yes, but is he aware of his opponent's strength? Surely they would not advance unless in overwhelming numbers?" George broke in. "Psha! The man must be mad to hope for success!" "That of course remains to be seen," said Mariam slowly.
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