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What's the use, anyway and yet, I s'pose, we must all work out our little share in the scheme of things. Seems to me we've all got our little 'piece' to say, all got our little bit to do. And we've just got to go on doing it to the end. Sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's so mighty easy it sets you wondering. Ah, psha!"

He took the chair usually occupied by his visitors. "You will pay ha'f a million dollars for this thing?" he demanded, to re-assure himself. Self-satisfaction looked out of the eyes of the man behind the desk. "More if necessary." "By God! You must hate this boy, Sternford." Peterman's feelings had broken from under his control. "Sternford? Psha! It is not Sternford. No."

"I don't see why I mightn't have gone to service this morning, Martha. It's quite warm now out in the Close." "You'd better wait, ma'am, till the east winds is over. She was at Puddock's only the day before yesterday, buying bed-linen, the finest they had, and that wasn't good enough." "Psha!" said Miss Stanbury. "As though Mr. Gibson hadn't things of that kind good enough for her," said Martha.

"Psha!" said the Doctor, "I've heard that song before; here's a new one for you, boys!" and Sawbones began, in a rich Corkagian voice "You've all heard of Larry O'Toole, Of the beautiful town of Drumgoole; He had but one eye, To ogle ye by Oh, murther, but that was a jew'l! A fool He made of de girls, dis O'Toole.

'I will take care that the redcoats are dispersed through the country; you land at night with the crew of your lugger, receive your own goods, and carry the younker Brown with you back to Flushing. Won't that do? 'Ay, carry him to Flushing, said the Captain, 'or to America? 'Ay, ay, my friend. 'Or to Jericho? 'Psha! Wherever you have a mind. 'Ay, or pitch him overboard?

And so, quoth Wisdom, you have hired a drummer to attend you in this tour of yours through France and Italy! Psha! said I, and do not one half of our gentry go with a humdrum compagnon du voyage the same round, and have the piper and the devil and all to pay besides? When man can extricate himself with an equivoque in such an unequal match, he is not ill off.

'Psha! said he in a whisper for the semblance of sleep affected everyone alike 'his pulse is just gone. Now, Madam, listen to me. There's not a soul in Chapelizod but yourself who does not know his wounds are mortal he's dying, Ma'am. 'Oh oh o o oh, Mr. Dangerfield, you don't you don't think so, wildly cried the poor little lady, growing quite white with terror and agony.

'I will take care that the redcoats are dispersed through the country; you land at night with the crew of your lugger, receive your own goods, and carry the younker Brown with you back to Flushing. Won't that do? 'Ay, carry him to Flushing, said the Captain, 'or to America? 'Ay, ay, my friend. 'Or to Jericho? 'Psha! Wherever you have a mind. 'Ay, or pitch him overboard?

"Well, in that case," she said, "why did you not let a servant-girl open the door when I came over?" This question took Pao-yue by surprise. "What prompts you to say this?" he exclaimed. "If I have done anything of the kind, may I die at once." "Psha!" cried Tai-yue, "it's not right that you-should recklessly broach the subject of living or dying at this early morn!

You will walk on, twenty yards ahead of us. We follow with these girls. No one is to follow us, or accompany us. We are to go on like that till we come upon your outposts, and then the priest and the two women will bring back Nunez's children." "You will send them safe back, you swear?" asked Nunez, in tremulous tones. "Psha!"