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Mine is going to be, except from a spectacular point of view, a very barren sort of year, compared with what yours might be if the fire once touched your eyes. I go where life is cruder and fiercer, perhaps, but you remain in the very city of tragedies." Aynesworth laughed, as he lit a fresh cigarette. "City of tragedies!" he exclaimed. "It sounds all right, but it's bunkum all the same.
The man was a bundle of nerves; he was only maintaining this display of coolness with an effort. Whatever the purpose of his bold intrusion, it was not social, as he had pretended. "I don't like any man to think me a liar." The man spoke slowly between puffs at his cigarette. "You think it's all bunkum that I'm fresh out of Germany, but it isn't. Do you see that?"
He sat down however, and added more quietly: "But why do I tell you all this? I have never spoken of it before." "Blindness invites confidence," replied Carrados. "We are out of the running human rivalry ceases to exist. Besides, why shouldn't you? In my case the account was falsified." "Of course that's all bunkum, Max" commented Carlyle. "Still, I appreciate your motive."
I worship her with the whole of myself so that there is not a cranny left in my spirit where hunger for money can find foothold, or fear of poverty exist. Happiness never depends upon cash, or the lack of it; but without love no real happiness shall be found in the world." "That may be bunkum, or it may be God's truth I don't know.
Small holdings, back to the land ah! philanthropic bunkum. Take it as a rule that nothing pays on a small scale. Avery's Farm, Sishe's what they call the Common, where you see that ruined oak one after the other fell in, and so did this, as near as is no matter." But Henry had saved it; without fine feelings or deep insight, but he had saved it, and she loved him for the deed.
It merely means that the kind of photography I must name "Fifth Avenue" art, is a conspicuous species of artistic bunkum, and must be recognized as such. Photographers must know that fogging and blurring the image is curtailing the experience of it. It is a foolish notion that mystification is of any value.
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.
"Well, when a critter talks for talk sake, jist to have a speech in the paper to send to home, and not for any other airthly puppus but electioneering, our folks call it Bunkum. All that flourish about Right o' Sarch was Bunkum all that brag about hangin' your Canada sheriff was Bunkum. "Well, they talk Bunkum here too, as well as there.
He then blob blob blobbered, and gog gog goggled, till he choked with words and passion, and then sot down. "Then that English Radical feller, that spoke with great voice, and little sense. Aint he a beauty, without paint, that critter? He know'd he had to vote agin the Bill, 'cause it was a Government Bill, and be know'd he had to speak for Bunkum, and therefore " "Bunkum!"
"This is no joke." An undefined mistrust of his own powers suddenly possessed him in the presence of this mystery. "How do you come to know of Nina Brun and Lord Seastoke?" "You are a detective, Louis," replied Carrados. "How does one know these things? By using one's eyes and putting two and two together." Carlyle groaned and flung out an arm petulantly. "Is it all bunkum, Max?
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