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I told the old missus that I would take good care that the right side was kept uppermost; and that if any harm happened to the instrument, you could set it all right agin." "I am sorry," said I, "to hear such a poor account of the instrument. It is impossible to sing well to a bad piano " "Phoo, phoo, man! there's nobody here that ever he'rd a better. Bad or good, it's the only one in the village.
A fellow like that for manager? Phoo!" Was it the clairvoyance of imbecile hatred, or mere stupid tenacity of opinion, which ends sometimes by scoring against the world in a most astonishing manner? Most of us can remember instances of triumphant folly; and that ass Schomberg triumphed. The T.B.C. Company went into liquidation, as I began by telling you. The Tesmans washed their hands of it.
Those gentlemen both departed, as soon as they saw us in safety, and I am ready to swear that neither of them was Sir George Barkley; the person this Messenger mistook for him being a young gentleman of four or five and twenty years of age." "Phoo!" cried the magistrate, with a long sort of whistling sound "Sir George Barkley is a man of fifty, with a great gash on his cheek.
Well, when a man's MAD, to be sure, he's mad and that's all that can be said about it. And I know, if I had been MAD myself, I might have done a foolish thing as well as another. But now, my lord, that you are not mad Lord J. I protest, sir, I cannot understand you. In one word, sir, I'm neither mad nor a fool! Take care now; you are going mad with me again. But phoo!
They were men one could work with, and I am grateful to them. And, after all, they did not eat each other before my face: they had brought along a provision of hippo-meat which went rotten, and made the mystery of the wilderness stink in my nostrils. Phoo! I can sniff it now. I had the manager on board and three or four pilgrims with their staves all complete.
Joel bolted up at that, and began to smile through the tears running down the rosy face. "Will you, really?" he said, "just like Ben and everything?" "I can't be as good as Ben," said Jappy, laughing, "but I'll be a real brother like him." "Phoo phoo! Then I don't care!" cried Joel wiping off the last tear on the back of his chubby hand.
He began to charge a long-stemmed pipe busily and in silence, then, pausing with his thumb on the orifice of the bowl, looked again at me significantly. "Yes, my good friend. 'He struck a match, which flared violently. His thoughtful placid face twitched once. "Friend, wife, child," he said slowly, gazing at the small flame "phoo!" The match was blown out.
"Well, bad win to the bit of it he'd gi' me, and the ould chap begins bowin' and scrapin', and said something or other about a long tongs. "'Phoo! the divil swape yourself and your tongs, says I; 'I don't want a tongs at all at all; but can't you listen to raison? says I. 'Parly voo frongsay? "'We, munseer. "'Then lind me the loan of a gridiron, says I, 'and howld your prate.
"It's this way, Major Doyle," he now remarked, coolly. "I've been worried to death, lately, over business matters; and I need a change." "Phoo! All your business is attended to by Isham, Marvin & Co. You've no worry at all. Why, we've just made you a quarter of a million in C.H. & D's."
But they have a great many to provide for; and among the thousands that may just as well go to the bottom as not, it is impossible for them to distinguish the very set who may be least missed." "Phoo! phoo!" cried the Admiral, "what stuff these young fellows talk! Never was a better sloop than the Asp in her day. For an old built sloop, you would not see her equal. Lucky fellow to get her!
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