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Updated: May 22, 2025
Don't tell me. How should they know what a woman will do when she is driven? I know what women are, and I know what them doctors are; and you may believe that an old woman, who has been a young one, knows more what such an one as that Bianca can do, when she has no hope before her, than all the doctors." "But it is impossible physically impossible that she could have done it." "Ta, ta, ta, ta!
"My lort, she 'll pe ta craandest staand o' pipes she efer blew, and proud and thankful she'll pe to her lort marquis, and to ta Lort of lorts, for ta kift.
He had persuaded himself now, as he had done often before, that what he had in reality done for his own pleasure or satisfaction, he had done in order to gratify some one else. 'The town was rough with a riot between the press-gang and the whaling folk; and I thought I'd best see Sylvia home. 'Ay, ay, lad; always welcome, if it's only as an excuse for t' liquor. But t' whalers, say'st ta?
Chiao Ta, however, availing himself of Chia Chen's absence from home, and elated by wine, began to abuse the head steward Lai Erh for his injustice.
"Ta Sin Lo did not see how one small mouse could hold in check three hundred men. The mouse jumped back to the ground and again spoke: "'I am the demon of Tarbagatai, Jagasstai. I am mighty and beloved of the Gods but, because you doubted the powers of the miracle-speaking mouse, from this day the Jagasstai will be dangerous for the good and bad alike.
The visitor took it and turned toward the door. "Ta! ta!" he said, taking his hat from the peg in the dining room. "I'm off for the clippers. When I come back I'll be the sweetest little Willie in the diggin's. So long." Bos'n and the captain sat down to the dinner at noon alone. Mr. Smith had not returned from his trip to the barber's.
"What's the use," they said, "of asking him? that mean fellow shouldn't be chosen, but you will go again and provoke him." "People always maintain," added lady Feng, "that you are far too lenient. But fancy allowing servants in this household to go on in this way; why, what will be the end of it?" "You don't mean to tell me," observed Mrs. Yu, "that you don't know this Chiao Ta?
The curragh which was promised might be a man, a horse, a cart, or chaise; and no more could be got from the man with the battle-axe but a repetition of 'Aich ay! ta curragh.
But such as it is, this is the one connecting link between China and Tibet, for ferrying across the upper reaches of the Ta Tu is impracticable most of the year. After passing the bridge we kept up a narrow trail that clung to the face of the cliff, often cut out of the granite rock.
Readers, you should know that this was the very block of useless stone which had been on the Ta Huang Hills, and which had dropped into the Ch'ing Keng cave, in a state of metamorphosis. A later writer expresses his feelings in a satirical way as follows: Nue Wo's fusion of stones was e'er a myth inane, But from this myth hath sprung fiction still more insane!
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