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"I haven't noticed," he answered brusquely. Curiously he had never thought of Emmy as dying; she appeared eternal, without the possibility of offering him the relief of such freedom as yet remained. Freedom for for Meta Beggs. "The doctor was at the cottage again Thursday," she informed him. "I didn't hear what he said." "Humbugs," August Turnbull pronounced. A sudden caution invaded him.
We are thinking over friend Robinson's antecedents, as we grin, bow and talk; and we are both humbugs together. Robinson a good fellow, is he? You know how he behaved to Hicks? A good-natured man, is he? Pray do you remember that little story of Mrs. Robinson's black eye?
After the last chorus which begins as though the gathering were a Scotch one and we were going to have "Auld Lang Syne" there is a final "grand dance," one of the composer's vigorous and elaborately worked displays on a ground-bass. Poor Grabut's fall was most lamentable. He most certainly did; and the case ought to be a warning to humbugs not to set their faith in princes.
One of the most original, unique, and successful humbugs of the present day was the late Monsieur Mangin, the blacklead pencil maker of Paris. Few persons who have visited the French capital within the last ten or twelve years can have failed to have seen him, and once seen he was not to be forgotten.
He would not have said, as the author of the "Fable of the Bees" did, that the "hunting after this pulchrum et honestum is not much better than a wild-goose chase." But he had a strong contempt for the humbugs of the world, and among them he placed unflinching optimists. One of the main forms of humbug in his day was the legend that everybody acted nobly for the sake of other people.
Stiggins began a third round of toast, and nodded assent. 'And he wouldn't be persuaded by the ladies, wouldn't he? said Sam. 'Sat and smoked his pipe, and said the infant negroes were what did he say the infant negroes were? said Mrs. Weller. 'Little humbugs, replied Mr. Stiggins, deeply affected. 'Said the infant negroes were little humbugs, repeated Mrs. Weller.
In 1792 the feet of the deserted Cesar were well-toughened to the pavements, his shoulders to the bales, and his mind to what he called the "humbugs" of Paris. So when Ursula abandoned him he was speedily consoled, for she had realized none of his instinctive ideas in relation to sentiment.
The word is in common use in Germany for a love intimacy or liaison. March 10th. To-day Berta Franke wanted to talk things out with us; but Hella and I told her we would not speak to her again. We told her to remember what sort of things she had said to us. She denied it all already. We shouldn't be such humbugs. It was mean of her. Really we didn't know anything and she told us all about it.
He was in a state of irritation natural to a gentleman of fine parts who had been snubbed in a benevolent attempt to confer a distinction upon a young woman of inferior characteristics, and the insinuating sympathy of this somewhat desiccated matron appeared to offer him no practical relief. He thought her a humbug, and he judged of humbugs with a good deal of confidence.
'Why, Edie, Ernest answered, kissing her white forehead gently, 'I don't want to judge them too hastily, but I'm inclined to fancy, on first sight, that both the doctor and his wife are most egregious and unmitigated humbugs. 'Humbugs, Ernest! why, how do you mean?
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