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I'm goin' 'ome. And she left Sally in the midst of her explanation. 'I dunno wot's up with Liza, remarked Sally to a mutual friend. 'She's always got the needle, some'ow. 'Oh, she's barmy, answered the friend. 'Well, I do think she's a bit dotty sometimes I do really, rejoined Sally. Liza walked homewards, thinking of the play; at length she tossed her head impatiently.
'Yer might give us a chanst, Liza, you come aht with me one evenin'. You oughter give us all a turn, just ter show there's no ill-feelin'. 'Bli'me if I know wot yer all talkin' abaht. You're all barmy on the crumpet, said Liza indignantly, and, turning her back on them, made for home. Among other things that had happened was Sally's marriage.
It would 'ave lighted up a 'appy 'ome if I 'adn't been a barmy idiot. It would 'ave showed me the face of my 'usband leanin' to kiss me in our blessed marriage-bed, an' my baby smilin' in its cradle-sleep 'ard by.... Oh! Oh!"
I really thought Kast was going to forget his Swiss blood, and chase a whole peso of custom right out of the place." "If you ask me, I think the blighter is barmy," asserted the Briton. "Well, I'll ask you," proffered the elegant one kindly. "Why do you consider him 'barmy, as you put it?"
There was a snap about his work which I had never witnessed before, even in Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps on New Year's Eve. Jeeves, when I discussed the matter with him later, said it was something to do with inhibitions, if I caught the word correctly, and the suppression of, I think he said, the ego.
There was a touch of monotony about the new life, and the good deeds that accompanied it, which, to a man of ardent temperament, was apt to pall. And Elk Street, instead of giving him the credit which was his due, preferred to ascribe the change in his behaviour to what they called being "a bit barmy on the crumpet."
There was a touch of monotony about the new life, and the good deeds that accompanied it, which, to a man of ardent temperament, was apt to pall. And Elk Street, instead of giving him the credit which was his due, preferred to ascribe the change in his behaviour to what they called being "a bit barmy on the crumpet."
"Eh?" roared George. "Eighty quid! Eighty quid! Flamin' blind o' Riley! D'you think I'm up the pole? Eighty quid? You're barmy!" "Eighty-ten," murmured Sin Sin Wa. "Eighty jimmies opium; ten bob lead." "I give more'n that for it!" cried the seaman. "An' I damn near hit a police boat comin' in, too!" Sir Lucien spoke a few words rapidly in Chinese.
Come, bathe, old fool, and be young, and a companion fer me, and we'll stay here fer ever! "'Course, I knew he must be barmy though 'ow he got me up that cliff certainly is a mystery! Any'ow, I thought I'd better 'umour 'im a bit. So I starts to undress; and then I pauses. "'Any beer here? I asks. "'Beer, what do you want vile beer for, when there's necktie fit fer the gords to drink? says 'e.
Harold remained in the doorway, puzzled. 'Don't stand there gaping at me, man, cried Mr Bickersdyke, 'Go away. Harold retired and informed his brother, William, that in his, Harold's, opinion, Mr Bickersdyke was off his chump. 'Off his onion, said William, soaring a trifle higher in poetic imagery. 'Barmy, was the terse verdict of Samuel Jakes, the third messenger.
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