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"Poor dear lady!" said the artist; "I pity her from my inmost soul. Doesn't the himmortal bard observe how sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child? And is it true, ma'am, that that young woman has been the ruin of her family?" "Ruin of her fiddlestick!" replied Miss Bella. "Law, Mr. Fitch, you don't know Ma yet; she is in one of her tantrums."
"Why, all the windows along the street are full of candles," answered Norah; "rows of candles in every house, to light the Christ Child on his way when he comes through the city to-night." "Fiddlestick!" again snarled her mistress. "And choir-boys are going about the streets, they say, singing carols in front of the lighted houses," continued Norah enthusiastically. "It must sound so pretty!"
At this grand moment, old Jack Truck, who was standing in the rigging, dripping with he spray, that had washed over him, with a naked head, and his grey hair glistening, shouted like a Stentor, "Haul in your fore-braces, boys! away with the yard, like a fiddlestick!"
'No doubt it will be the best thing you can do, especially as it will heal all the sores arising from the entail. 'There never was any sore, said Clara. 'Pray give my compliments to Mr Belton, and offer him my congratulations, and tell him that I wish him all happiness in the married state. 'Married fiddlestick! said Clara.
No fear of that, at all events!" exclaimed True Blue vehemently. "You didn't suppose that I meant that. But how can we tell that all our friends are alive and well?" he said gravely, and was silent for a minute. "However," he added in a cheerful tone, "I have no fears that all will be right, and that, before many evenings are over, we shall have you fingering your fiddlestick as merrily as ever."
Because certain mighty men of old could make heroical statues and plays, must we not be told that there is no other beauty but classical beauty? must not every little whipster of a French poet chalk you out plays, "Henriades," and such-like, and vow that here was the real thing, the undeniable Kalon? The undeniable fiddlestick!
"Practical use of Christianity," repeated Seymour, disdainfully, "the commonest charity would have had the same result." "And what is the commonest charity but the essence of Christianity?" asked Minnie. "Fiddlestick!" replied Seymour, irreverently. "Religion is based upon the difference, in an ecclesiastical sense, 'twixt tweedledum and tweedledee."
You were ready to pay two hundred pounds for him if this marriage came off. Half that will start him to Carrara." "What? Give him a hundred pounds?" "You know we are all in the dark, Papa," said she, thinking it expedient to change the conversation. "For anything we know he may be at this moment engaged to Mrs. Bold." "Fiddlestick," said the father, who had seen the way in which Mrs.
"But why, my dear? Heaven and earth! Resign two thousand a year!" "That he may maintain his independence," said Mary proudly. "Fiddlestick!" said Mrs. Finn. "How is he to maintain you, or himself either, if he goes on in that way? I shouldn't wonder if he didn't get himself all wrong, even now." Then Mrs.
"Why, sir," answered the Tinker, shaking his head a little sadly, "I don't know aught about music, d'ye see " "Fiddlestick, man! You are full of music.
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