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He pished and swaggered, and made some remark to his men with the obsequious smile with which child or man asks for the support of his mates in his wrong-doing. The men did not smile back; they merely watched soberly to see what Watusk was going to do about it. The hail was repeated. "Ho, Watusk! Inspector Egerton orders you to come and talk to him!"
He could not as yet bring himself to tell her that Mr Maguire and the visit should go altogether for nothing. He shook his head in his trouble, and pished and pshawed. "The truth is, Margaret, you can't go to-day." "Indeed I shall, John," said she, smiling. "You would hardly wish to keep me a prisoner, and the worst you could do would be to keep my luggage from me."
Denys at first pished and pshawed, but dared not play the braggart, for he said to himself, "That young vagabond will break in and say 'twas the finger of Heaven, and no mortal arm, or some such stuff, and make me look like a fool." But now, seeing Gerard unconscious, he suddenly gave this required information.
Hayes on the green; and, telling him that some repairs were wanting in his kitchen begged him to step in and examine them. Hayes first said no, plump, and then no, gently; and then pished, and then psha'd; and then, trembling very much, went in: and there sat Mrs. Catherine, trembling very much too. What passed between them?
"Should you like the Duke for a cousin?" says Mr. Secretary St. John, whispering to Colonel Esmond in French; "it appears that the widower consoles himself." But to return to our little Spectator paper and the conversation which grew out of it. Beatrix pished and psha'd over the paper; Colonel Esmond watching with no little interest her countenance as she read it. "How stupid your friend Mr.
"The governor pished a little, and would rather I had come to live with him in the old Hall, and take to farming. Time enough for that, eh? By Jove, Randal, how pleasant a thing is life in London! Do you go to Almack's to-night?" "No; Wednesday is a holiday in the House. There is a great parliamentary dinner at Mr. Egerton's.
'But Adolphus wants money as much as any one, Lady Pomona had said. He had shaken his head, and pished and pshawed. Women never could understand anything about money. Now he walked down sadly from Mr Melmotte's office and was taken in his brougham to his lawyer's chambers in Lincoln's Inn.
My father suddenly drew in and pished a little, for he saw that he was caught in the web of his own eloquence. Then Roland took down from the wall his son's sword. Stealing to the cradle, he laid it in its sheath by the infant's side, and glanced from my father to us with a beseeching eye.
At this the squire pished a little; but as it was quite clear that the land would be all the more valuable hereafter for the fruit-trees, he consented to permit the "grass-land" to be thus partially broken up.
"So off was she to the King again, and though he and his master pished and pshawed, and said if one and another were to be set free privily in this sort, there would be none to come and beg for mercy as a warning to all malapert youngsters to keep within bounds, `Nay, verily, quoth I, seeing the moment for shooting a fool's bolt among them, `methinks Master Death will have been a pick-lock before you are ready for them, and then who will stand to cry mercy?"
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