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Celia inclined her head; she could not speak; the blood surged to her face, then left it white; her eyes closed, she felt as if she were going to faint; the revulsion from terror to relief had been almost too great for her. The old gentleman saw the effect his words had upon her; he looked at her curiously, his eyes piercing in their keenness. "Tut! tut! What is the matter?
'Scratched only, he answered, betraying no surprise on learning who it was had come up so opportunely; as he no doubt did learn from my voice, for he continued with a bow, a slight price to pay for the knowledge that M. de Marsac is as forward on the field as on the stairs. I bowed my acknowledgments. 'This fellow, I said, 'is he much hurt? 'Tut, tut!
"Tut, we just said that was Miss Lucy Bertram of Ellangowan, that should ance have had a great estate in the country and that was Miss Jowlia Mannering, that was to be married to young Hazlewood See as she was hinging on his arm we just spoke about our country clashes like he was a very frank man." "Well, and what did he say in answer?"
"Assuredly, my Polly, assuredly." The doctor was pacing up and down the office now, hands in pockets, eyes on floor. "The world is your oyster; open it, my dear, open it. By the way," with a sharp turn, "with what do you propose to open it?" "I don't know yet, but not with boarders, Dr. George." "Tut, tut, child; must n't despise small things!" "Such as Mr.
Frank had never before been so much praised and flattered, at least not since his mother weaned him; but he pretended not to care. He said: "Tut, tut, it's not worth mentioning. Say no more about it. I would of course have done as much for anybody." Of course he could not leave the ladies again to the mercy of the Parson, so he waited until the shepherd returned with his flock.
"So far as I know, it is Venus Anadyomene." A flash of laughter passed across his face and left it still angrier, still more indecorously defiant. "I like her best, anyhow. I do, indeed. But, Lord! I feel that almost any of them " "Tut, tut!" said Benham. Prothero flushed deeply but stuck to his discourse. "Wasn't it always your principle, Benham, to look facts in the face?
'He says you're wrong! cried Anthony to the old clerk. 'Tut, tut! was Chuffey's answer. 'I know better. I say HE'S wrong. I say HE'S wrong. He's a boy. That's what he is. So are you, Mr Chuzzlewit a kind of boy. Ha! ha! ha! You're quite a boy to many I have known; you're a boy to me; you're a boy to hundreds of us. Don't mind him!
Five pints! why that is two quarts and a half; that is too much to drink if it was water; and if any thing else, it is beastly drunkenness. Have nothing to do with them." "Oh! no, Sir, it is five points of law." "Tut tut tut! what have you got to do with law, my dear?" "By gosh, Aunty," said Mr.
"You may call the devil for aught I care, you little fool," he answered her, very pleasantly. "Do you think Duplay will be mad enough to lay hands upon a Deputy of the Convention in the discharge of the affairs of the Nation?" "It is a lie!" "Why, of course it is," he admitted sweetly. "But Duplay will not be aware of that." "I shall tell him." "Tut! He won't believe you.
"How my brain throbs!" he said; "surely you said the throbbing brain was a sign, mother; and my brain does throb." "Tut, tut! it's nobbut some maggot thou's gitten intil it." "My pulse, too, it gallops, mother. You said the galloping pulse was a sign. Don't say you did not. I'm sure of it, I'm sure of it; and my pulse gallops.
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