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"O, gladly!" cried Kenyon, who had long wished to model that beautiful and most expressive face. "When will you begin to sit?" "Poh! that was not what I meant," said Miriam. "Come, show me something else." "Do you recognize this?" asked the sculptor.
"Poh! let the child alone," said St. Clare. "Topsy will do her good." "But so depraved a child, are you not afraid she will teach her some mischief?" "She can't teach her mischief; she might teach it to some children, but evil rolls off Eva's mind like dew off a cabbage-leaf, not a drop sinks in." "Don't be too sure," said Miss Ophelia. "I know I'd never let a child of mine play with Topsy."
"Well, turn about's fa'r play, they say, an' I think you're the most genuine creetur' I ever seen," responded Jim. "All we want up in the woods now is a woman, an' I'd sooner have ye thar nor any other." "Poh! what a spoon you are!" said Miss Butterworth, tossing her head. "Then there's timber enough in me fur the puttiest kind of a buckle." "But you're a blockhead a great, good blockhead.
They are grown quite yellow, as you see this one, and have no longer any fragrance! What can have been the matter with them?" "Poh, my dear little girl pray don't cry about it!" said Midas, who was ashamed to confess that he himself had wrought the change which so greatly afflicted her, "Sit down and eat your bread and milk!
At first the lark was silent, and plumed his wings and went up up up, as if to gather wisdom for his answer; and then he came, singing, down and said, "'I'll tell you something about your charge; but you won't believe me. These young butterflies that you look for will become caterpillars. "'Poh! poh! said the old caterpillar. 'I don't believe a word of it. "'No; I told you you wouldn't.
I have a detail of very homely grievances to present; but such as they are, many a heart will feel them to be heavy the trials of a housekeeper. "Poh!" says one of the lords of creation, taking his cigar out of his mouth, and twirling it between his two first fingers, "what a fuss these women do make of this simple matter of managing a family!
For some time he turned his thoughts to philosophy, and read lectures to us every night upon some branch or other of physics. This undertaking arose upon some one of us envying or admiring flies for their power of walking upon the ceiling. "Poh!" he said, "they are impostors; they pretend to do it, but they can't do it as it ought to be done.
"Well, cousin Indigo, what is the matter?" said Percy; "you look as if this world was a howling wilderness, and you wanted to howl too. What, crying over that bird? Poh! I can buy you a screech-owl any time, that will make twice the noise he could in his best days. Come, hurry, and put your things on!" Susy buried her face in her apron. "I'll compose a dirge for him," said Percy.
"Aye, Jonathan! why so, my good lad." "Oh, sir," replied Jonathan, "such a dream as I have had, sir! a marvellous bad dream about the enemy's coming upon you to-night, sir!" "Poh!" quoth Mr. Kinloch, turning himself over for another nap: "I have dreamed nothing about it, Jonathan.
But the mountaineer was not going to Arden just yet; first he must tell Jane that henceforth she could come without fear and help him with his lessons. "Wall," the sheriff said, after another hour of walking, "if you're goin' to Flat Rock I'd better leave you heah, an' make my way to Arden. Our hunt's ended, right enough; an' Gawd have mercy on his poh, ign'rant soul!"
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