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For over a year now I've been studying the law of the case," and she pointed to her law books; "I know the law and most of the decisions. Moreover, as a black woman fighting a hopeless battle with landlords, I'll gain the one thing lacking." "What's that?" "The sympathy of the court and the bystanders." "Pshaw! From these Southerners?" "Yes, from them.
If that ham isn't here in short order, I'll know the reason why. You hear me?" "Gra-SHUS! If this isn't Well, well! this just lays over all the Pshaw! Mr. Butterwick, if you'll hold on for a second, I'll be with you agin. I'll be right back."
"Pshaw!" said Aunt Maria, an argument which carried great weight with her. "They don't know half what they claim to. It is a clever man who knows one-tenth of his own business." This peaceful and cheering conversation was interrupted by a shot ringing out of a cañon which opened into a range of rock some three hundred yards ahead of the caravan.
"I don't think much of it myself," says Rylton, with increasing gloom. At this abject surrender Margaret's tender heart relents. "I believe all you have told me," says she; "and I suppose I'm glad of it, although Well, never mind that. Marian deserves no pity, but still " "Pshaw!" says he. "What has Marian got to do with it? Marian never cared that about me."
"Luckily, indeed, Martine," interposed a fat gossip; "for no offence! you, as I remember, were long enough with the handsome sorcerer." "Pshaw!" said a young soldier, who had joined the group, smoking his pipe, "don't you know that pretty Martine was dispossessed a month ago." The girl blushed, and drew the hood of her black cloak over her face.
But it was absurd to think that his money was gone. Pshaw! one could not spend fifteen thousand in nine months! It was preposterous! This notice was some technicality that he could not understand. He would look into it the next day. And so he dismissed the wearisome matter from his mind with a shrug of his shoulders as though ridding himself of some troublesome burden. However, the idea persisted.
But he was tender in thought this stormy night, with the grateful relaxation that a happy break brings in the midst of long-drawn melancholy. Everything had been working towards this end that he should be the light-keeper of Scarthey on the day when out of the raging waters Cécile would rise and knock and ask for succour at his chamber. Cécile! pshaw! raving again. Well, the child!
'Why I thought it was only three or four months since the affair of the methodist preacher and the drowning, that you were just now telling me about? 'Pshaw! exclaimed Hector, 'if you pester your pate with her crotchets, you will have enough to do. Come, come, where are the muffins? I begin to cry cupboard. Beside I want to be off.
"Well, I don't know," said Morgan, twisting his head argumentatively, as if to imply that there was more behind his villainy than the judge supposed, "but I thought when a feller got to foolin' with another man's wife " "Oh, pshaw!" cut in the judge. "You're thinking of it as it should be, not as it is.
The operator glanced at it and said, "You'll have to get Captain B 's O. K. on that message before I can send it." She talked sweetly to him, but that didn't happen to be one of his "susceptible" days. Then she came to me, and as my "susceptibility" had run to a pretty low ebb I refused to permit the message to go on, on account of its hidden meaning. "Oh, pshaw!
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