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"What is your name?" he asked. "Aurelie." "Where are your father and mother?" "They are both dead." "How long have you been in my employ?" "For three weeks." "Where do you come from?" "I have just come from Paris." "You speak English?" "My mother was English, and I can speak in conversation, and I understand, but...." "There are no 'buts'; you know or you do not know."
At this moment the cook, who had heard the sound of breaking crockery, and judged it expedient that he should be present, opened the door. "How now, rascal!" exclaimed his master, striding up to him. "Did I ring for you, eh?" "No, sir; but " "But! eh, but! no more `buts, you scoundrel, else I'll "
"Why do you always ask me in that argumentative sort of way? But me no buts!" "Ah, well, it's because I'm always afraid you'll stop!" Jim pleaded. "And I do so want you to begin to love me as much as I do you!" "You must have had thousands of girls!" Julia remarked, idly rumpling his hair. "I never was engaged before!" he assured her promptly.
"No buts or ifs, Thurston," cried Kennedy sarcastically. "What did you make that affidavit for? What is YOUR story?" "Kimmel sent for me. I did not go to him. He offered to pay my debts if I would swear to such a statement. I did not ask why or for whom. I swore to it and gave him a list of my creditors. I waited until they were paid.
"Wouldn't it be nice if we could live this way always?" said Ruth, as she put a large raisin in her mouth. "Yes," replied Agnes, "but " "Now, Agnes, do leave the buts and ifs out once, and say that you would really like it."
"There was such a fellow at Ingolstadt; he was proof both against lead and steel. The soldiers killed him with the buts of their muskets." "This impassible foe," said Ranald, without regarding the Major's interruption, "who has the blood dearest to me upon his hands to this man I have now bequeathed agony of mind, jealousy, despair, and sudden death, or a life more miserable than death itself.
Here, on the bank of a hollow where the moss was dry and soft, he seated her, threw himself prone on his elbows before her, and said, panting: "Nessus carrying off Dejanira was nothing to this! Whew! Well, my darling, are you glad to see me?" "But " "But me no buts, unless you wish me to vanish again and for ever.
"I tried the tests. The blood on the handkerchief conformed strictly to the latter test. Now the gorilla was, of course, out of the question this was no Rue Morgue murder. Therefore it was the negro waiter." "But," I interrupted, "the negro offered a perfect alibi at the start, and " "No buts, Walter. Here's a telegram I received at dinner: 'Congratulations.
Well, add fifteen per cent to all them 'ere lands that border on Windsor Basin, and five per cent to what 'buts on basin of Mines, and then, what do you get? A pretty considerable sum I tell you but it's no use to give you the CHALKS, if you can't keep the TALLIES.
There be things that even a spy may balk at; and the taking of the oath of allegiance to the other side I conceived to be one of them. So I said: "I have worn many uniforms since I doffed that of King George, my Lord, and " He laughed cheerily. "'But me no buts, Captain Ireton; once an Englishman, always an Englishman, you know. I shall assign you to duty in my own family."
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