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"I don't believe he's the other thing," said a voice as brusque as the first was bland. "I believe it's all bunkum. I wish I didn't, but I do!" "I think you'll find it's more than that," rejoined the other, as the doors opened and swallowed the pair. I flung out limp hands and smote the air.
Caesar wraps his head in his robe: he gets his dig in the ribs for all his attitudinizing. It's very well for a man to talk like that who owns no more than his barebodkin life, poor devil. Tall talk's his jewelry: he must have his dandification in bunkum. You ought to know better. Property and titles are worth having, whether you are "worthy of them" or a disgrace to your class.
A mere tenant knows that it is bunkum when he says "Our Country." It is perfectly practicable to sell about one half of the land in a year or two, and have a thousand acres or more left free and clear, which will cost the promoters nothing. Renting this out or selling it will repay the whole cost, and probably bring a large profit besides.
No, not they; they want Irish votes, that's all it's Bunkum.
"But then I know this symphony so well, love it so much, that I perhaps feel intolerantly toward new readings." As the next, and last, movement began, she heard Rose under her breath yet quite loud enough, murmur, "Bunkum!" The ejaculation was nicely modulated to reach her own ears alone. With a deepened sense of alienation, Imogen sat enveloped by the unheard thunders of the final movement.
The lies I've told during the last three weeks the bunkum I've talked! it's a feeling of positive dirt! And the worst of it is, however you may scrub your mind afterwards, some of it must stick." He took out a cigarette, and lit it at his companion's with a rather unsteady hand. He had a thin, long face and fair hair; and one would have guessed him some ten years younger than the man beside him.
It tante much different from stump oratory in America arter all, or speakin' off a whiskey barrel, is it? It's a sort of divil me-kear-kind o' audience; independent critters, that look at a feller full in the face, as sarcy as the divil; as much as to say, 'Talk away, my old 'coon, you won't alter me, I can tell you, it's all Bunkum.
You took it off without winkin', and opened your mouth as wide as a young blind robbin does for another worm, and then down went the Bunkum about making you a Secretary of State, which was rather a large bolus to swaller, without a draft; down, down it went, like a greased-wad through a smooth rifle bore; it did, upon my soul. Heavens! what a take in! what a splendid sleight-of-hand!
They say little, hut after all they are the most important fagots in the great bundle of communities, and all the glib bunkum in the world would not pay for their estrangement. They have controlled the land."
A firm hand drew her away from the light, and in the shelter of a laurel bush, a voice, choking with laughter, proclaimed: "Done you, old girl! Done you brown! What about that bet? I told you you'd never know me!" "You abominable young wretch," replied Ingred, laughing in spite of herself. "How did you manage it? And who is your friend?" "Allow me to introduce Vashti, Queen of Persia!" "Bunkum!
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