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People have submitted to these things so long that the manufacturers consider themselves justified in covering every barn, rock and fence with their signs. I see no way to stop them." "Nor I, at present. But there must be a way." "Drive out one, and another will take his place. They pay liberally for locations " "Pshaw! Ten dollars a year for a rock as big as a barn!"
"That's just what I was thinking myself, major, all the time I was wrestling with him. It's an awful pity to have to kill a man like that." "Oh, pshaw, nothing but a cussed redskin. That makes one less of the vermin. All of us on both sides round that clearing watched you and him, and did not pay much attention to each other till it was over.
"'It's a way I have, I said, pocketing them. "'Some bloke's dropped 'em down the shaft, he whispered, awed by the circumstance. "'It stands to reason, said I. "'I'll take charge of 'em, he volunteered. "'Nonsense! "'You'd better turn 'em over, he threatened, 'or I stop the works. "'Pshaw! "And stop he did, between floors. "It fetched him.
He started, cocked his gun, glared round in all directions, and held his breath. The noise was not repeated. Gradually the frown of his brows melted, the glare of his eyes abated, the tension of his muscles was relaxed, and his highly-wrought feelings escaped in a long-drawn sigh. "Pshaw 'twas nothing.
"Pshaw!" laughed Elk MacNair; "a skinflint who has raked up fortune with his fingers, ground down his laborers, pinched his soul, and stooped his stature for money, has no right to be my chaplain, Jabel Blake! You have grown rich like a scavenger. What matter if I bring down fortune with my rifle, though the American eagle be the bird.
Her coming, her few words of greeting, timid though they were, brought him an immense sense of relief. "Well, girls," he said, "both full of adventures, eh? What did they do with you in the Tombs, Laura?" "Pshaw! What could they do?" Laura replied. "If they're guys enough to be tricked by a girl, the best thing they can do is to keep mum about it and let her go. That's about what they did to me."
Going to be a naturalist." "A what?" "Scientific gentleman." "But serve the King!" "What, and be sent down here hunting after the blackbirding blackguards?" "Pshaw! That's not really what we are here for; only if we see a suspicious-looking craft we board her." "Then what are you here for?" "King's business. Mum. Mustn't say." "Now, Mr Lindon! Good-evening, Captain Chubb; and good-evening, doctor.
"Well, here's somebody you've not seen before," said he, good- humouredly, pulling her round to Ellen, "here's a new friend for you a young lady from the great city, so you must brush up your country manners. Miss Ellen Montgomery, come from pshaw! what is it? come from "
"Say'st thou so!" exclaimed Edward, looking up, with the animation of a man hearing an acquittal from a quarter whose sincerity he could thoroughly trust. But Henry made no courtly answer. "Pshaw! no living man that had to deal with or for your father could keep a covenant. You were but the spear-point of the broken reed, good cousin; and we pitied and excused you accordingly."
"If you were a flesh-and-blood woman instead of an eccentric sprite," he remarked, "I suppose you'd want me to make a clean breast of the whole affair, but I can't because, to tell the truth, I've forgotten everything about it." "Then you didn't honestly love her, so it doesn't matter." "Love her! Pshaw!" Though he laughed out the words there was an angry flush in his face.