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Indeed, indeed I did not! A couple of gendarmes held the muzzles of their carbines against my breast. 'Stir but a step, said they, 'and you are a dead man. 'Why should you threaten me with death, cried I, 'when I have already declared my innocence? 'Tush, tush, cried the men; 'keep your innocent stories to tell to the judge at Nimes.
When the brief applause was at an end, one of the elder bystanders addressed the principal workman, at the forge, in a low voice. "You are incautious, Caius Crispus, to sing such songs as this, and at such a time, too." "Tush, Bassus," answered the other, "it is you who are too timid. What harm is there, I should like to know, in singing an old Greek song done into Latin words?
It was a rude speech, and my hard voice and common clothes made it ruder. The gentleman fired in a second, and with blazing eyes asked me if I intended an insult. I was about to say that he could take what meaning he pleased, when an older man broke in with, "Tush, Charles, let the fellow alone. You cannot quarrel with a shopman."
These men are as artful as the devil their master. It may be that he gives them powers " "Tush!" answered Dr. Cottisford angrily; "he got out by his own craft. I had thought that fasting and loneliness would be a profitable discipline for him. But I bid my servants keep an eye to the outer doors, which they omitted to do." "You have done wrong, very wrong.
This figure of horse and horseman stood prominently forth amidst the little band. And Lovell, riding by Ratcliffe's side, whispered, "Beshrew me, I would rather King Edward had asked for mine own head than that gallant earl's!" "Tush, youth," said the inexorable Ratcliffe, "I care not of what steps the ladder of mine ambition may be made!"
"Captain, I have not, or I should not so have spoken. But with all my heart I wish you joy." "I have pleasure, I assure you, in the prospect, Mistress Anerley. My friends make wry faces, but I blow them away, 'Tush, I say, 'tush, Sir; at the rate we now are fighting, and exhausting all British material, there can not be too many, Sir, of mettle such as mine! What do you say to that, madam?"
"Sit down, and my servants will bring you what you need." "But I am not fit to intrude, sir. A weary traveller is no guest for such a table." "Tush, man," he cried, "when did a Virginian think the worse of a man for his clothes? Sit down and say no more. You are heartily welcome." He pushed me into a vacant chair at the bottom of the table, and gave some orders to the negro.
'Aha! went Andrew, as if the joke were too good to be dwelt on; 'Hem'; and by way of diverting from it cleverly and naturally, he remarked that the weather was fine. This made Evan allude to his letter written from Lymport, upon which Andrew said: 'tush! pish! humbug! nonsense! won't hear a word. Don't know anything about it. Van, you're going to be a brewer. I say you are.
It's probably the first thing they'll think of. And even if they don't Bertie, shall I tell you something?" "What?" "I've a good mind to take that tip of yours and have a drink." I smiled. He little knew, about summed up what I was thinking. "Oh, you'll be all right," I said. He became fevered again. "How do you know I'll be all right? I'm sure to blow up in my lines." "Tush!" "Or drop a prize."
"Nay, wait till Knyphausen comes up, and then we'll " "'T is no time to play a waiting game." "Tush! Lord Cornwallis," replied Sir William, irritably. "The infantry have done their twenty miles to-day. I'll not jade my troops into the runaway state of the rebels. What use to kill our men, when the rebellion is collapsing of itself?"
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