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All civil and political and social organizations received scant justice at his hands. If he had lived in our times, one would have expected him, in his letters to friends, to pooh-pooh the World War that has drenched Europe with blood, while in his heart he would probably have been as deeply moved about it as any of us were.
Do you know, although Dick pretends to pooh-pooh everything intellectual, he has a really penetrating mind." I had a sudden vision of Dick in his old smoking jacket, standing in the midst of the immaculate cottage that was once a barn, holding his pipe with one finger crooked around the stem just in front of his nose in the way he had, and smiling across at me.
You see, when one has to live with people, one must yield to their customs, and not pooh-pooh their amusements." "You are saying exactly what Claudet said last night." "Claudet was right." "What am I to do? The chase has no meaning for me. I can not feel any interest in the butchery of miserable animals that are afterward sent back to their quarters."
The occultists, of course, are quite familiar with the wonderful manifestations of this great natural force, and with its effect upon the minds and bodies of members of the race, and can afford to smile at the attempts of some of the narrow minds in the colleges to pooh-pooh the matter. But the average person is not familiar with the relation of this human magnetism to the human aura.
He threw his arms about wildly and she wondered if he would strike her. But he threw himself into a chair and burst into heavy sobbing. Madeleine ran out of the room. "I tell you it's true. You needn't pooh-pooh at me, Antoinette McLane. I have it on the best authority." "Old Ben Travers, I suppose!" "No, it's not Ben Travers, although he'll find it out soon enough. Her chambermaid knows my cook.
"I kept in the background, watching the scene. There was something about this child that moved me strangely. True, I tried to pooh-pooh away the sentiment, and said to myself: 'Why bother your head about her?
Mr Chester would pooh-pooh her distress, but she would cry quietly behind the urn, and despite his affectation of indifference he, also, would look worried and troubled; while Harold would declare that every one must go through the same stage before settling down, and that Rhoda might be expected to "make a fuss." She had been so spoiled at home!
Old Purchas in his "Pilgrims" tells of a sacred caste in India who, when they go out into the street, cry out, "Poo! Poo!" to warn all the world out of their way lest they should be defiled by something unclean. And it is just so that the understanding in its pride of success thinks to pooh-pooh all that it considers impractical and visionary.
But we, in our "superior" condition, pooh-pooh the Byronic spirit of indifference to events and scorn of trifles, we say it is "melodramatic," completely forgetting that our attitude towards ourselves and things in general is one of most pitiable bathos.
I compromise with myself. I am angry at having been forced on an insane adventure, but the prospect of its absurdity gives me a considerable pleasure. Let me set it down once and for all. I resent Lola Brandt's existence. When I am out of her company I can contemplate her calmly from my vantage of social and intellectual superiority. I can pooh-pooh her fascinations.
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