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I see him yet his yellow convulsed face his twisted limbs his claw-like hands tearing at the empty air then the ghastly grim and dropped jaw the wide-open glazed eyes pshaw! it sickened me!" "Well, well!" I said in a soothing way, still busying myself with the arrangement of my button-hole, and secretly wondering what new emotion was at work in the volatile mind of my victim.
"Now, what's left for us?" After a brief conversation with the umpire Maitland signaled. Dick Prescott came bounding in from second, to receive the ball from Kennedy, while Ebbett was seen racing out to second. "Play ball!" called the umpire crisply. "Oh, pshaw!" called one of the cadets. "In training season Prescott tried for pitcher and the coaches turned him down. Now we're done for today!"
And suddenly, for the briefest instant, it appeared to the old warden, who had passed all his life in the prison, and who looked upon its laws as the laws of nature, that the prison and all the life within it was something like an insane asylum, in which he, the warden, was the chief lunatic. "Pshaw! The devil take you!" and he spat aside. "Why are you giggling here? This is no dramshop!"
The Ranger stirred, but he did not meet her eyes. "Well," said he, "I read 'most anything I can get. A feller meets up with strange books just like he meets up with strange people." "Not books like that." There was a brief silence. "Mr. Law, every now and then you say something that makes me think you're a rank impostor." "Pshaw!" said he. "I know cowboys that read twice as good as I do."
"What do you see in the Project," said Sara. "What does it really matter whether private or public interests control it? Who really cares?" "Lots of people care. Jim cares." "Pshaw!" sneered Sara. "All Jim Manning really cares about is his own pigheaded sense of race and nationality." "Jim needs that sense for his propelling power," said Pen.
She has fled to the convent to be true to Fonseca; she must fly from the convent to bless the prince. This is my tale: I want thy aid." "Prince," said Calderon, gravely, "thou knowest the laws of Spain; the rigour of the Church. I dare not " "Pshaw. No scruples my rank will bear thee harmless. Nay, look not so demure; why, even thou, see, hast thy Armida.
They were close on my heels, and they closed in from every quarter, but, pshaw! I knew the woods like an Indian, and the wild things were my friends again, which would have made it play if I'd been alone, but a girl child of three was harder to manage.
"You are Alton of Carnaby." "Pshaw!" said the man with a little gesture of pride and impatience, which Miss Deringham was forced to admit became him. "I'm Alton of Somasco, and nobody gave it me. I won it from the lake and the forest that comes crawling in again but I'm getting off the trail. I didn't know your father was coming here, and hadn't any notion who you were."
It is necessary for me to know before to-morrow how I am to write to Lord Fitzjocelyn. 'Pshaw! Mary, I've settled that young fellow! 'Papa, I don't think you know
And with this, half sadly, half playfully, he began stripping the leaves off one by one, and repeating over and over again: "Tell me, sweet Marguerite, shall I be free? Soon in time perhaps never! Soon in time perhaps never! Soon in time perhaps " It was the last leaf. "Pshaw!" he said, tossing away the stalk with an impatient laugh.
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