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"What what was the Cornal saying to you?" at last she queried, busying herself as she spoke with some uncalled-for kitchen office to show the indifference of her question. "Oh, he was not angry," said Gilian, thinking that might satisfy. "I did not think he would be," she said. Then in a little again, reluctantly: "But what was he talking about?" The boy fobbed it off again.
With a few thousands in his pocket, he might aim at something more to his taste than a life of trading. Five thousand it should be, not a penny less! This time he was not to be fobbed off with bluster and posturing. He spent the day in Bristol, and at nightfall journeyed towards Polterham. No; even yet nothing had happened.
Caldigate, said the official. 'No doubt you have called in reference to your son. The squire had determined to be very indignant, very indignant even with the Secretary of State himself, to whose indifference he attributed the delay which had occurred; but almost more than indignant when he found that he was to be fobbed off with Mr. Brown.
But business over, she put several straight questions about the boy, little Johnny Polly still blamed herself for having meekly submitted to the child's removal from her charge and was not to be fobbed off with evasions. The unfavourable verdict she managed to worm out of John: "Incorrigible, my dear Polly utterly incorrigible!
There had been certain injuries, either real or presumed, respecting which these delegates had been sent to the city. There they had been delayed, and fobbed off with official replies which gave no satisfaction, and were supposed to be ready to do any evil possible to the Republic.
Then I'll jump out, 'Right yer are, guvner, sez I, and with that he 'ands me up the other two poun' ten and the extry half-suvering. I fobbed it and whipped up the old 'oss. Next moment we was around the corner, and a-drivin' as if we was a trying to ketch a train. Then we comes to a little side street, an' I slows down.
"If she means to throw Eugene over, why doesn't she do it right out? I don't believe she does. She's afraid he'll throw her over. And, by Jove! she fobbed that fool off again! We're no further forward than we were. If he makes trouble about this she'll deny the whole thing. Miss Bernard is a lady of talent. But no, can I? Yes, I will. Rather than let her win, I'll step in.
There was one thing requisite to the intrigue, a native pretender; and the very man, you would have said, stood waiting: Mataafa, titular of Atua, descended from both the royal lines, late joint king with Tamasese, fobbed off with nothing in the time of the Lackawanna treaty, probably mortified by the circumstance, a chief with a strong following, and in character and capacity high above the native average.
When they had gone about a rod the cub hung back and kept stopping and looking back to the earth, and at last turned and ran back home. But her mother was not to be fobbed off so, for she quickly overtook her child and gripping her by the scruff began to drag her along with her. Mr.
But I feel that the writer who was perhaps the greatest essayist that England has ever produced must not in these letters be fobbed off with so slight a notice and quotation. What has always seemed to me the supremest passage that flowed from his wonderful pen is to be found in his paper on Warren Hastings which appeared originally in the Edinburgh Review.
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