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His only real justification would be to turn patience his own of course inside out; yet if there should be a way to misread that recipe his humbugging genius could be trusted infallibly to discover it.
"Do you know, Brooke," one of the young lieutenants said, "I did not feel at all sure that Cooke was not humbugging us, when he introduced you to us, and that you were not really a Burman who had travelled, and had somehow learned to speak English extraordinarily well."
Miriam flushed, struggling for self-possession. She determined not to listen.... "Damn... Devil..." she exhorted herself... "humbugging creature..." She felt the blood throbbing in her face and her eyes and looked at no one. She was conscious that little movements and sounds came from the Germans, but she heard nothing but Fraulein's voice which had ceased.
"Who requires a captain? You dare to tell me that I need any of you humbugging sailors to run my ship. You and your likes have been fattening on me for years. It would have hurt me less to throw my money overboard. Pam pe red us e less f-f-f-frauds. The old ship knows as much as the best of you." He snapped his teeth audibly and growled through them, "The silly law requires a captain."
It must be remembered that diseases of the imagination are as actually painful to the patient as if they really were organic troubles. It is, therefore, useless to laugh at or pooh pooh the trouble, or suggest that the sufferer is only humbugging.
There'll have to be an end to this damned foolery. I've got no time to spend humbugging. It's four o'clock, and I have letters to write before dinner. Tell her I must see her, and have done with it. Alice went upstairs with small hope of success. She knocked twice before receiving an answer. 'Mother, are you there? 'What do you want? came back in a voice of irritation.
I beg your pardon, my dear sir; but has the boy been humbugging you? it is not his habit. Upon my word and honour, as a gentleman and an executor to my brother's will too, he left little more than five hundred a year behind him." "And with aconomy, a handsome sum of money too, sir," the Captain answered.
I'm not humbugging. 'Shut up, Bobs! said Anthea. 'Silence for the Squirrel's oration, said Robert. Cyril balanced himself on the edge of the water-butt in the backyard, where they all happened to be, and spoke. 'Friends, Romans, countrymen and women we found a Sammyadd. We have had wishes.
"The way I'm getting humbugged." "Humbugged! Who's been humbugging you?" "Darn me if I know; and that's the worst of it by a thundering sight." "Well, my dear fellow, if I can help you, you'd better let me know what it's all about." "Why, Minnie; that's the row. There ain't another thing on this green earth that would trouble me for five seconds." "Minnie? Oh!
"'Gracious Heaven! screamed Sparks, 'can you laugh at it? "'Laugh at it! re-echoed the paymaster, 'God grant I only don't burst a blood-vessel! And once more the sounds of merriment rang out anew, and lasted for several minutes. "'Oh, Maurice Quill, cried an old captain, 'you've been too heavy on the lad. Why, Sparks, man, he's been humbugging you.
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