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"Pish, sirrahs, put a date always at the bottom of your letter, as well as the top, that I may know when you send it; your last is of November 3, yet I had others at the same time, written a fortnight after. . . . Pray let us have no more bussiness, busyness. Take me if I know how to spell it!

"It's my opinion he'll be for flogging us next, Short," said the old man. "Yes," replied Short. "Shall we allow Jemmy to be flogged?" "No," replied Short. "If it warn't for them 'ere marines, and the lumpy beggar of a corporal," observed one of the seamen. "Pish," quoth Jemmy, who was standing among them. "Won't he make it out mutiny?" observed Spurey.

And the dunghill complained grievously that it should be disturbed for so slight a cause. And Napoleon withdrew his hand from the hand of Loyalty, saying, "Pish!" And his eyes opened, and he heard the booming of the sea, and the buzzing of the flies, and felt the heat of the sun, and saw that the sugar he had dropped into his sangaree had not yet reached the bottom of the tumbler.

Pish! pish!" he added, seeing our faces crimson; "come away," and he carried me off to the dispensary, as though his preserved reptiles would be more interesting than Hortense. With an indifference a trifle too marked, he brought me round to the fur trade and wanted to know whether I would be willing to risk trading without a license, on shares with a partner.

Joseph made a gesture of impatience. "Can you not leave Fate alone?" "Think you I have no conscience, Joseph?" cried the other with sudden vigour. "Pish! you are womanish." "Nay, Joseph, I am old. I am in the autumn of my days, and I would see these two wed before I die." "And are damned for a croaking, maudlin' craven," added Joseph. "Pah! You make me sick."

They scorned to beat hemp, and made a pish at the whipping-post; but when they had once felt the smart of it, they soon cried peccavi, and submitting to the punishment, set their tender hands to the beetles.

What in the devil's name is she doing in there? He had a short way. John began to stammer. 'A second father a tender guardian 'Pish! said Count Richard, and turned to leave the pavilion. Prince John slipped through the curtains, and at that moment Richard heard a little fretful cry within, not the cry of mortal lady. 'What under heaven have they got in there, this family? he asked himself.

When he spoke it was with embarrassed hesitation. "I say, daughter." Eugenia looked up eagerly. "Didn't that spotted cow of Moses' die last week?" "That it did," replied Eugenia emphatically. "It got loose in your clover, pasture and ate itself too full. Moses says it bu'st." "Pish!" exclaimed the general angrily. "My clover! I tell you, they won't leave me a roof over my head.

Riley-Werkheimer walked past me to take a closer look at the seat, almost treading on my toes rather than to give an inch to me. "How can you prove that it's the genuine article?" he demanded curtly. "You have my word for it, sir," I said quietly. "Pish tush!" said he. Mr. Rocksworth turned in the direction of the banquet hall. "Carrie!" he shouted. "Come here a minute, will you?"

You'd have a gibbet if you could, wouldn't you? You with your rebellion and your tinpot honours! A puling baby could conspire as well as you. And all the world laughing at you v'la!" "Get out of this room and take your feet from my Manor, Tardif," said the Seigneur with a deadly quietness, "or it will be the worse for you." "Your Manor pish!" The man laughed a hateful laugh. "Your Manor?

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