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"He has not looked at the sky, I am sure," said John, "or he would never send you on such an expedition" "Pho! pho!" answered William, "we must have no fresh-water sailors here. Go I must; so there is no alternative. My orders are explicit." "Then, Sir, permit me to go with you," said John.
"Pho, pho," interrupted Lady Honoria, "but I don't mean such hum-drum companions as those; you'll tell me next, I suppose, of the parson and his wife and three daughters, with all their cousins and aunts: I hate those sort of people.
I got back from Bentley Manor, where I had been a-visiting the Fotheringays, just in time to call for Patty in Gloucester Street. "Have you heard the news from abroad, Richard?" she asked, as I handed her into my chariot. "Never a line," I replied. "Pho!" exclaimed Patty; "you tell me that! Where have you been hiding? Then you shall not have it from me."
You feel very proudly, but just then catch sight of the sneering face of your old enemy of the snapper; and he dares you to go upon a limb that he points out. The rest say, for you hear them plainly, "It won't bear him." And Frank, a great friend of yours, shouts loudly to you not to try. "Pho," says your tormentor, "the little coward!"
'I'm not coming an hour later in the morning, you know, said Tim, breaking out all at once, and looking very resolute. 'I'm not going to sleep in the fresh air; no, nor I'm not going into the country either. A pretty thing at this time of day, certainly. Pho!
"Oh, pho! never mind him we are as right as possible." A few moments afterwards, up rose , and soon got into his case, and very soon, also, to the end of it.
"Her name, I think, is Hill; she is wife to the carpenter you employed about a new temple at Violet-Bank." "O, what what, that woman? Well, well, I'll see she shall be paid. Come, let us go to the library." "What, with my commission so ill executed? I promised to petition for her to have the money directly." "Pho, pho, there's no such hurry; I don't know what I have done with her bill."
"Do you suppose me mad?" he inquired, quite seriously. "Pho! Others were overlooked at the time. We did not all go the way of Craggs and Aislabie and their fellow-sufferers. Stanhope was assailed afterward, though he was innocent. That filthy fellow, the Duke of Wharton, from being an empty fop turned himself on a sudden into a Crown attorney to prosecute the peculators.
"How if we should find the world again?" "Hum!" says I. "But this powder and shot now " "Pho!" cries she, and stamping her foot turns her back on me. "Here am I yearning to show you all these hidden marvels, Martin, but I never will until you beg me no, never! And now 'tis time you took your medicine." "What medicine?" I questioned, wondering.
He hates information; and he himself would not stay in this dull garrison town any longer than he was obliged to. There was to be a military display that day in honor of the Governor. "Why," I asked the bright and light-minded colored boy who sold papers on the morning train, "don't you stay in the city and see it?" "Pho," said he, with contempt, "I'm sick of 'em.
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