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"But I am in great need of money. How am I going to live if the chief counselor returns to Mary Ann Brodjinski her millions?" "Phoo! that's easy enough," again answered the man, and, putting his hand in his pocket, he drew out and tossed to the king an old-fashioned leather purse.
"Phoo! phoo! an ugly thing! So is a fit of the gout but one's all the better for it after. 'Tis just a renewal of life, my, lord, for which one must pay a bit of a fine, you know.
A gang of people from some tip-top West-End house were fussing here on board with hangings and furniture for a fortnight, as if the Queen were coming with us. Of course the starboard cabin is the bedroom one, but the poor captain hangs out to port on a couch, so that in case we want him on deck at night, Mrs. Anthony should not be startled. Nervous! Phoo!
But no matter spite of him I'll have my swing the day, and it's I that will tear away with a good horse under me and a good whip over him in a capital style, up and down the street of Ballynavogue, for you, Miss Car'line Flaherty! Honor. Gerald O'Blaney! Oh, brother! Mercy! Don't! any thing rather than that Phil. Honor. Phil. Phoo! you've taken a prejudice.
"Mia-ow, phoo, phit, phiz!" screamed pussy with all the varied expression of which the cat language is capable, running up the gamut into the treble and dying off in a wailing demi-semi-quaver. "Mia-o-w!"
"Phoo! phoo!" interrupted Goody Grope; "don't be prating; don't I know as well as you do, that they found a pot of gold, BY GOOD LUCK? and is not that the cause why they are going to live in a slated house now?" "No," replied the postmaster's daughter; "this house is given to them AS A REWARD that was the word in the letter; for I saw it.
"This is the place; that is Stoneleigh Cottage," Bessie said, pointing to the house where Grey was waiting for them, with the boy Neil at his side. "And this is Neil, my eldest; we think he is like you," Bessie continued, as she alighted from the carriage and presented the child to her cousin. "Phoo!
You have only two scenes, and as I shall be Cottager, I'll put you in and push you about, and you will do it very well, I'll answer for it." "No, indeed, Mr. Bertram, you must excuse me. You cannot have an idea. It would be absolutely impossible for me. If I were to undertake it, I should only disappoint you." "Phoo! Phoo! Do not be so shamefaced. You'll do it very well.
"Ah!" said he, "Montelimar. I know that hotel. Infect. And the patron, eh? You remember him. Forty stone. Phoo!" The gaunt man sat up in his chair and by what mesmeric magic it happened I know not, but before my eyes grew the living image of the gross, shapeless creature who had put me to bed in wringing wet sheets. "And when you complained, he looked like this eh?" He did look like that.
"Answer you must, when I ask you: every man, every gentleman, must answer in all honour for what he does." "Certainly, answer for what he does," said Harry. "For! Phoo! Come, none of your tricks upon prepositions to gain time I never knew you do the like you'll give me a worse opinion. I'm no schoolmaster, nor you a grammarian, I hope, to be equivocating on monosyllables." "Equivocate!
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