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I declare, said my uncle Toby, smit with pity, I know of none; unless it be the pleasure which it has pleased God A fiddlestick! quoth she. Mrs.
Tom saw his rival taking something from one of the packs slung across the back of a mule. Soon the circus agent hurried back into the king's hut, and a moment later there was heard the strains of a banjo being picked by an unpracticed hand. It was succeeded by a rattling tune played in good style. "Bless my fiddlestick!" exclaimed Mr. Damon, "Does your phonograph have a banjo record, Tom?"
"'Star-spangled fiddlestick! he retorted, tapping the ground with the tip of his boot. And so you are a Yankee? I heard there was a lot of them here. "'Yes, I'm a Yankee, I replied; 'a genuine down-easter and proud of it too, and who, are you? "'I? Why, I am Neil McPherson, an Eton boy, and my father is the Hon.
I never knew her to be ill in my life since she had the measles." "I thought she seemed flushed." "No doubt, at seeing you." "I suppose she ought to see the doctor." "See a fiddlestick. If she's not fretted she won't want a doctor till the time comes when the doctor will be with her whether she wants him or not. There's nothing so bad as coddling. Everybody knows that now.
For the moment, however, he recovered his freedom: breaking prison, he straightway conveyed a fiddlestick to his comrade, and in a twinkling was at Newcastle again, picking up purses well lined with gold, and robbing the bumpkins of their scouts and chats. But the time of security was overpast.
"To buy guano! Why could he not get his guano from Walker, as my man Symonds does?" "He says it is not good. He analyzed it, and " "Fiddlestick! Why didn't he order it in London, if he didn't like Walker's. Gone to Liverpool for guano! I'll tell you what it is, Lady Mason; if he intends to farm his land in that way, he should have a very considerable capital at his back.
There was a review of troops, and Knox went to see it; but it was over before he reached the place, where he was presently told of a characteristic reply just made by Wolfe to some officers who had apologized for not having taught their men the new exercise. "Poh, poh! new exercise new fiddlestick. If they are otherwise well disciplined, and will fight, that's all I shall require of them."
I never shall forgive myself, if you have been lonesome, for you are worth five hundred times as much as I am. You really do love Moses. I don't." "I do love him as a dear brother," said Mara. "Dear fiddlestick," said Sally. "Love is love; and when a person loves all she can, it isn't much use to talk so. I've been a wicked sinner, that I have. Love?
"If you were as great a favourite with them as I am, you'd sing a different song, I know." "As great a fiddlestick!" ejaculated the other with infinite scorn, having the reputation of being as much of a woman-hater as Diogenes. "If I was as big an ass about those `chawming girls' as you call them, I tell you what I would do I'd go and hang myself!"
William Oke looked puzzled for a moment, and glanced at his wife, who continued to lie listless on her sofa. "There is a press full of clothes belonging to the family," he answered dubiously, apparently overwhelmed by the desire to please his guests; "but but I don't know whether it's quite respectful to dress up in the clothes of dead people." "Oh, fiddlestick!" cried the cousin.
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