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I've been thinking if I couldn't send him something Christmas and pay off the debt." "He'd think a great deal more of an invitation to your reception." "But you don't understand. You never think of Evelyn's future. We are asking people that we think she ought to know." "Well, Burnett is a very agreeable fellow." "Fiddlesticks! He is nothing but a law clerk.
You with toothache!" The fact was that Mr. Povey always doffed his coat when cutting out. Instead of a coat he wore a tape-measure. "My tooth doesn't hurt me," said he, sheepishly, dropping the great scissors and picking up a cake of chalk. "Fiddlesticks!" said Mrs. Baines. This exclamation shocked Mr. Povey. It was not unknown on the lips of Mrs.
"What does this mean?" she quavered, so close to Annesley's ear that the girl wheeled with a start of renewed alarm. "Who's this strange man in my house? What's this talk about 'engagements'?" "A strange man!" echoed Ruthven Smith, prickling with suspicion again. "Haven't you met him, Miss Grayle's fiancé?" "Miss Grayle's fiddlesticks!" shrilled the old woman.
But you ought to act more, more polite, you know." "Oh, fiddlesticks! You mean more finicky, like that paragon, Patty. You think she's perfect, because she never raises her voice above a certain pitch, and she expects all you men to lie down and let her walk over you." "She MAY walk over me, if she likes; and I want you to stop speaking of her in that slighting way, Daisy." "Oh, you do, do you?
"My good sir, I tell you the boy is the son of a country apothecary," cried out Major Pendennis; "and that when he comes of age he won't have a shilling." "Pooh, Major, you're laughing at me," said Mr. Costigan, "me young friend, I make no doubt, is heir to two thousand pounds a year." "Two thousand fiddlesticks!
The torments of hell are not so terrible as the tortures that Holkar will invent for thee." "Tortures, madam?" answered I, coolly. "Fiddlesticks! You will neither betray me, nor will I be put to the torture: on the contrary, you will give me your best jewels and facilitate my escape to the fort. Don't grind your teeth and swear at me.
"It was the inn where John Storm and Glory Quayle lunched that day when she led him such a dance." "John Fiddlesticks!" said Jimmie. "As if that counted against that cold lunch! Then we arranged to go in the wagonette, but you got into such a hot argument with me " "I thought you said we didn't have anything hot," I murmured. "Then we missed the wagonette, and spent an hour finding a cab.
His training up to that point had been almost too successful! This was not the first time that the boy had stated the same wish; his gaze, therefore, did not quail when his father looked up from his newspaper and said sternly "Fiddlesticks, boy! hold your tongue." "Father," repeated Will, in a tone that caused Mr Osten to lay down his paper, "I want to go to sea."
'He's one of the big managers the one who has engaged me. 'Engaged fiddlesticks! commented Mrs. Rushmore, with contempt. 'I say you are quite mad. If not, how do you account for your wishing to go on the stage? Margaret was thinking how she could account for it, when Mrs. Rushmore went on. 'I'll have a specialist out this afternoon to look at you, she said. 'You're not sane.
"Well, then, I think I'll go to bed." "I might sit up and keep the fire going," he suggested after a pause. "Fiddlesticks!" she cried. "As though your foolish little code were saved in the least! We are not in civilization. This is the trail to the Pole. Go to bed." He elevated his shoulders in token of surrender. "Agreed. What shall I do then?" "Help me make my bed, of course.
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