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Suddenly he had become hostile, lividly vicious; he laughed a shrill cackle in her face, his nose wrinkled like a dog's. "No good to me," he said. "T'ree shillin' poof! For free shillin' here you buy-a free drink. For room an' dinner you pay-a one pound. Take-a your t'ree shillin' away; I don't vant-a you an' your free shillin'. You get out go walk-a in da street."
What did you lose your temper for like this? You knew quite well what we came here for." "I knew you came to steal money from stockbrokers. I knew nothing about going to try and run my country in for a war." "Poof, that's nothing. The war would not hurt you and me. Besides, it must go on now. I've cabled my partner in London to be a bear in Kaffirs for all he's worth.
He had said what had to be said, and he was no diplomat, to smile quietly with a devil lurking in the corners of his eyes. Meyer obligingly accompanied him to the door. "Can I oblige you in any other way with work, for example? I could very well find room for a worker who will make children's boots and shoes." When Pelle reached the street he drew a long breath. Poof!
With one accord the chamberlains drew their swords and pushed the hilts towards me. "It would be a favour," said their spokesman, "if the great Lord Deucalion would take his vengeance now, instead of delivering us to the tormentors hereafter." "Poof," I said, "the matter is forgotten. You make too much of a little." Nevertheless, their action gave me some enlightenment.
Don't you know that frogs and tadpoles have feelings and hearts as well as yourself?" "Poof! poof!" scoffed Pinkie Whiskers. "I don't care. I am going to take my tadpole home with me anyway." Father Frog did not say a word. He just jumped against Pinkie Whiskers with such force that the rod flew out of his hand and the little tadpole went flop back into his watery home.
Poof!" he exclaimed, pressing his perfumed handkerchief to his nostrils, "faugh! how damnably sulphur-and-brimstony you do keep yourself, cousin oh, gad!" "You would certainly find it much clearer outside," said I, beginning to blow up the fire.
"Oh, well, if you feel that it would upset you," said Barkins, in a tone of voice full of protest, "I suppose that we had better see you off, and go somewhere else." "Poof!" ejaculated Smith in a low tone. "Look at him, Gnat; he's in just as much of a stew as you are. Well, it's too bad of you both, but if you must go, why, I suppose we must." "You beggar!" snarled Barkins angrily.
Suddenly she scrambled to her feet in undignified haste, and shook a small, clenched fist in her sister's direction. "Kate Seton," she cried, "you're a fraud. An unmitigated fraud. Yes, you are. Don't glare at me. 'Live' men! Adventure! Poof! You're as tame as any village cat, and just as dozy." Kate had risen, too. She was not glaring. She was laughing.
At length, when I stopped, more from lack of breath than want of argument, he opened his oracular jaws, and made the following reply, interrupted by his usual interjectional ejaculations, and by long volumes of smoke: 'Hem aye eh poof.
'It is out of my power, sir; they are not known to me, since you must needs know so much of my private affairs. The Justice collected a great AFFLATUS in his cheeks, which puffed them up like those of a Dutch cherub, while his eyes seemed flying out of his head, from the effort with which he retained his breath. He then blew it forth with, 'Whew! Hoom poof ha! not know your parents, youngster?
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