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I suppose he lent the money expecting us to pay him back at a handsome rate of interest." "No, he didn't. That's just it. He lent it to us out of out of " "Yes; out of what?" "Out of pure goodness," she said, firmly. "Fiddle-faddle! People don't do things out of pure goodness. The man who seems to is either a sentimentalist or a knave.
And yet the Beet himself was not quite easy; for talk as he would, what he had called fiddle-faddle seemed ingenious when he thought it over, and he would like to have persuaded himself that he grew layer upon layer, too. But it wouldn't do.
And why? because I love her. And would you not wish me to judge of your love for her by my own? And would not you bear with her? I do assure you, Sir, that if I thought you did not Well, but it is plain that you don't! And is it plain that you don't? Well, then, you must do as you think best. Well might the merit of your passion be doubted, you say, if, like Mr. Solmes fiddle-faddle!
The boy had been a willing dutiful soldier, everybody said so, and yet they were going to shut him up in prison for five long months, all because of a piece of fiddle-faddle! Devil take them all! What was the use of being a good soldier?
Gammon don't understand nothing about new feeds for sheep, and dam nonsense about growing such things as melons, fiddle-faddle, for 'em. Robert's a beginner. What he knows, I taught the young fellow. Then, my question is, where's his ideas come from, if they're contrary to mine? If they're contrary to mine, they're contrary to my teaching. Well, then, what are they worth? He can't see that.
He conceded the use of it to the Irish and the Welsh as a right that stamped them for what they were by adopting it; and they might look on a country as a 'she, if it amused them: so long as they were not recalcitrant, they were to be tolerated, they were a part of us; doubtless the nether part, yet not the less a part for which we are bound to exercise a specially considerate care, or else we suffer, for we are sensitive there: this is justice but the indications by fiddle-faddle verbiage of anything objectionable to the whole in the part aroused an irritability that speedily endued him with the sense of sanity opposing lunacy; when, not having a wide command of the undecorated plain speech which enjoyed his approval, he withdrew into the entrenchments of contempt.
No more Jenkinsisms in the Morning Post, concerning fashionable parties. A view of the duchess's ball-room, or of the dining-table of the earl, will supersede all occasion for lengthy fiddle-faddle.
When it was signed, addressed, and sealed, we looked into each other's eyes. "'I wonder if we'll ever regret this? said Duncan, serious for the first time. He was always more grave than I, and used often to curb my high spirits who would think it now? "'Fiddle-faddle! Regret a pot of money, or a Queen's commission as Field-marshal? I asked flippantly.
There is no doubt whatever that far more people die from eating too much than from eating too little. I wonder the Squire has a scrap of digestion left heavy meat breakfasts, heavy meat luncheons, and then a groaning dinner at the end of the day. Such meals, and practically nothing to do for them! for what has a man of that sort to occupy his time beyond what one would call fiddle-faddle?
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