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I will promise to tell her anything that you say." "Two or three days!" exclaimed Butler, irritably. "Two or three fiddlesticks! She must come home to-night. Her mother doesn't know she's left the place yet. To-night is the time! I'll go and fetch her meself to-night." "No, that won't do," said Cowperwood. "I shall have to go myself.
She shook her head when Miss Lucretia said it, for it had to do with an incident in the 29th chapter of Genesis. Dodd was complaining to his wife of shooting pains, and "callated" he would stay at home that day. "Shootin' fiddlesticks!" said Mrs. Dodd. "Get along down to the store and face the music, Levi Dodd. You'd have had shootin' pains if you'd a went to the meetin'." "I might stop by at Mr.
Take Catholic doctrine for granted; act on it; and see if you will not reclaim them! 'Take for granted? Am I to come, after all, to implicit faith? 'Implicit fiddlesticks! Did you ever read the Novum Organum? Mellot told me that you were a geologist. 'Well?
"Truth and justice!" repeated Friedland angrily. "Fiddlesticks! A crazy desire for notoriety. That's the truth. And as for justice well, that was what was meted out to you." "Prussian justice!" Lassalle's hand rose dramatically heavenwards. His brow grew black and his voice had the vibration of the great orator or the great actor.
"You don't look like that kind of a man, but I knew it; I knew how it would be!" "Fiddlesticks and frog's eggs!" I cried. "Stop your crying. She is here somewhere. You know well enough that I wouldn't have returned without her. She came to the door with me. I'd have you to know, madam, that I'm not the man you take me for. Do you think I'd injure a hair of her head?
"Good egg!" he observed to himself; "trouble is he'd give us that same song and dance if he'd croaked the guy his own self!" "Furthermore," Stone went on, "Mrs, Embury shows a peculiarly strong repugnance to hearing this story of Miss Ames' experience. That looks " "Oh, fiddlesticks!" cried Miss Ames, who had been listening in amazement; "it wasn't Eunice!
"Tenpence the fiddlesticks!" said Mrs Clere, pushing the piece of worsted to one side. "I'll not take a farthing under the shilling, if you ask me while next week. You can just go to Tomkins, and if you don't find you've got to darn his worthless frieze afore you've done making it up, why, my name isn't Bridget Clere, that's all. Now, Rose Allen, what's wanting?"
"Impossible." "Was it, egad? I thought so, but I am not easily mistaken." "Unless you dreamt." "Bah!" exclaimed Mr. Mole, with ineffable contempt; "fiddlesticks!" "But did you suppose she was in league with Hunston?" demanded Emily with great eagerness. "No." "What then?" "He was bamboozling her, twisting her round his finger^ as one might say.
"I don't think it is that," says Marion, gently; "I don't believe Vera is well." "Fiddlesticks!" snorts her mother-in-law. "A woman who is going to marry ten thousand a year within ten days is bound to be well." Vera sits alone; she leans her head against the window, her hands lie idle in her lap, her eyes mechanically follow the rough, gray clouds that rack across the winter sky.
You are unwilling to grant that his productions have any merit at all; but I think have. Moreover, it is a good practice for him, and for all of us, to write poetry, even if it does not come quite up to Milton. It will improve us in the use of language." "Fiddlesticks! It is simply wasting time that might be spent in profitable reading; and good reading will improve the mind more than rhyming."
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