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She suppressed her anger, however, lest Bigot should guess the dark imaginings and half-formed resolution which brooded in her mind. With her inimitable power of transformation she put on her air of gaiety again and exclaimed, "Pshaw! let it go, Bigot. I am really no politician, as you say; I am only a woman almost stifled with the heat and closeness of this horrid ballroom.
Heavens above! What are you that you should become a stickler for honesty in others? Do you think I've forgotten that you drove my father to his grave, and that the very land you live on you stole from me? Pshaw! It takes more than twenty years to bury a thing like that, you fool!"
You're young and healthy as a wild deer. You're a perfectly splendid girl. Why, you'll be out of this in a couple of weeks. How did you happen to fall that way?" She nodded toward the window. "I fell out there I was frightened." "Yes, yes, of course sleep walking, eh?" Jamieson took snuff very vigorously. "Don't do it again. But pshaw!
My Father was coming into the Chamber, and had like to have taken Cinthio with me, when, to conceal him, I put him into your Closet, not knowing of Charmante's being there, and which, in the dark, he took for a Gallant of mine; had not my Father's Presence hinder'd, I believe there had been Murder committed; however they both escap'd unknown. Scar. Pshaw, is that all? Enter Mopsophil. Mop.
Rube, thoroughly enjoying his task of rousing the other's drooping spirits, went on, carried away by his own enthusiasm. "Say, why has Rosie come back, boy, I'd like to know." "She said as she couldn't endure a city no longer. She wanted the plains, the Injuns, Ma, you, an' the farm." "Pshaw boy! Plains! Farm! Injuns! Ha, ha! Say, Seth, you ain't smart, not wuth a cent.
"Like the Oratorical Association was last year?" she inquired gently. "Oh, pshaw!" said I, getting entirely red. "Let's not get personal. What can we do to satisfy you?" "You've been satisfying us beautifully so far," said Miss Hicks. "Who's us?" I asked. "I don't in the least mind telling you," said Miss Hicks. "It's the Blanks." "The Blanks!" I repeated fretfully. "Never heard of 'em."
'Werry good but are you sure that the chap is down there still? demanded Ragged Pete; 'hadn't we better go down and see if he hasn't took leg bait? 'Pshaw, you fool! rejoined the first speaker, angrily; 'how could he escape after I had locked him in? There's an iron door, fastened with a padlock as big as your head; so hold your tongue, and help me raise the stone to its place.
I cried, excitedly, for the wires were dangerously near. "I'm doing my best, Griggs," grunted the inventor, twisting this wheel and pulling that lever. "Don't worry, we'll sail over them all right. We'll just pshaw!" With a gentle, swaying kind of bump, the auto stopped. We had grounded, so to speak, on the telegraph wires. "That's the end of this trial trip!" I remarked, caustically.
Oh, pshaw! You ought to see Rocky. He's made out of platinum, an' armour plate, an' pure gold, an' all strong things. I'm mountaineer, but he plumb beats me out. Down in Curry County I used to 'most kill the boys when we run bear. So when I hooks up with Rocky on our first hunt I had a mean idea to show 'm a few.
For days after the morning spent at Sherwood Hall, Rob dreamed of the story that Polly had told. "Oh, pshaw! Those things don't happen nowadays," he muttered, in disgust. "Not that fairy things EVER happened," he added, "but knights really lived, and they did things that proved their courage."
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