Crossword-Solution: FIDDLESTICK 11 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 22

Just now you declared Montraville's happiness was what you prized most in the world; and now I suppose you repent having insured that happiness by agreeing to accompany him abroad.” “Indeed I do repent,” replied Charlotte, “from my soul: but while discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.” “Ruin! fiddlestick!” said Mademoiselle; “am I not going with you? and do I feel any of these qualms?” “You do not renounce a tender father and mother,” said Charlotte.

Didn’t she, rather, do you the honor to say, ‘A fiddlestick for your phrases! There are better reasons than that?’” “Other reasons were discussed,” said the marquis, without looking at Valentin, but with an audible tremor in his voice; “some of them possibly were better.

Perhaps it’s a tower of mystery that covers the entrance to a subterranean vault with treasure in it.’ Dicky said, ‘Subterranean fiddlestick!’ and ‘A waterworks, more likely.’ Alice thought perhaps it was a ruined castle, and the rest of its crumbling walls were concealed by ivy, the growth of years.

For the moment, however, he recovered his freedom: breaking prison, he straightway conveyed a fiddlestick to his comrade, and in a twinkling was at Newcastle again, picking up purses well lined with gold, and robbing the bumpkins of their scouts and chats.

Foreign prince!--foreign fiddlestick!--you ought to be ashamed of such nonsense at your time of life.