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Kanets speaks, and it seems as if he were hammering their heads. "All these are foolish illusions ... fiddle-sticks!" It was strange to see them reasoning in this manner, these outcasts from life, tattered, drunken with vodki and wickedness, filthy and forlorn. Such conversations rejoiced the Captain's heart.
The soul of the pedant was at first tugged as if from below, then drawn slowly down, and finally shot off out of sight. 'This is a most extraordinary thing! said the Devil. 'It is the draught. It is very strong between the joists, ventured the Learned Man. 'Fiddle-sticks ends! shouted the Devil. 'It is a trick! But I've never been caught yet, and I never will be.
He sent a searching glance at her; he never was sure when that girl was laughing. "Fiddle-sticks! For four months now I've been shopping every day with you women, and you can't tell me prize-fights are brutal." Crawford applauded gently. "By the way, Crawford, you know something about direct charity." Killigrew threw back his rug and sat up. "I've got an idea.
The next moment Gwendolyn, from the hassock upon which she had settled in comfort heard a wrangle of voices: First, Jane's shrill accusing, "It was you put it into her head! to come and take my place from under me and the food out of my very mouth and break my hear-r-r-rt!" Next, Thomas's sonorous, "Stuff and fiddle-sticks!" then sounds of lamentation, and the slamming of a door.
The Billy Smiths came up. Elsie proceeded to withdraw into herself. "We were speaking of Mr. Pless," said I. "He has a broken heart." The newcomers looked hard at poor Elsie. "Broken fiddle-sticks," said Billy Smith, nudging Elsie until she made room for him beside her on the long couch. I promptly made room for Betty Billy. "We ought to tell John just a little about him," said Elsie defensively.
"But hold on!" cried Quin, sitting up in bed. "I can't do that, you know; I've got to get on my feet first." "How are you going to get on your feet until you get your strength back?" demanded Madam. "You look like going to work, don't you?" "Well, the doctor has promised me I can go out on Saturday. I ought to be able to go to work in a couple of weeks." "Couple of fiddle-sticks! Dr.
Liddell," said the lawyer, turning to Katherine, "that it would be well to let me give you the house-keeping money for the present, so that he need not be troubled about anything except to get well; and when well, my dear sir, you really must go out. Fresh air " "Fresh fiddle-sticks," interrupted the old man; "I have been well for years without going out, and I'll not begin now.
"He that won't allow heed shall pay dear in his need;" the good mother grew warm, as the son began to whistle; "and to my mind, Master Dan, it won't be long afore you have homer things to think of than politics. 'Politics is fiddle-sticks' was what men of my age used to say; sensible men with a house and freehold, and a pig of their own, and experience.
You make phrases about everything. That's a ridiculous thing to say. If every fickle woman " "Fickle woman! fickle fiddle-sticks!" he interrupted. "That's only a tag. The people whose business it is to decide these things DIE HERREN DICHTER are not agreed to this day whet it's man who's fickle or woman.
What can you expect, Sir, with Fanny Wright disseminating her infidel sentiments, and the work-people buying The Friend of Equal Human Rights? Equal human fiddle-sticks, Mr. Van Boozenberg! To which remarks from the mouths of many Directors that eminent officer nodded his head, and looked so wise that it was very remarkable so many foolish transactions took place under his administration.
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