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The Count took the opportunity of cursing the peasantry for a quarrelsome, worrying lot, and offered the police officers a snack and a glass of wine. He was hardly sorry for the loss of his bailiff, as Erös Béla had been rather tiresome of late bumptious and none too sober and his lordship anyhow had resolved to dispense with his services after he was married.
He had begun the adventure in the strength of the desire born of his visit to the scene of his father's work at Hankow to do a little good. True, it was an impulse of which he was more than half ashamed. Its mere formulation in words rendered it bumptious and presumptuous. Beyond the confession made to Rodney Temple on the night of his arrival no force could have induced him to avow it.
I shall not have done with you yet awhile, Vandean, and you'll have to attend very strictly to my orders if I'm to make a man of you. Did you take my medicine?" "Yes, sir." "Sure?" Mark coloured. "Yes, sir, I told you." "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" cried the doctor. "Dear me, how bumptious we are, young fellow. There, I believe you, but that's more than I'd do for some of your tribe.
"And it's the heathen that repeateth a prayer oft; thou hadst better say 'God, have mercy upon my untowardness! once, from thy heart, than to say thy rosary from now until doom with thy mind upon a bumptious Russian." "What is the day, Janet?" "'Tis as bleak and stormy as one could wish." "What is the hour?" "Eleven." "Eleven? and I was to meet Count Adrian at this very hour.
Mtesa, he said, was so mad to see us, that the instant he arrived at the palace and told him we wished to visit him, the king caused "fifty big men and four hundred small ones" to be executed, because, he said, his subjects were so bumptious they would not allow any visitors to come near him, else he would have had white men before. 27th.
"She was always not exactly proud like, but what I calls Bumptious." "I never heard that word before," said the parson, laying down his knife and fork. "Bumptious indeed, though I believe it is not in the dictionary, has crept into familiar parlance, especially amongst young folks at school and college."
"My boy," he said, "of all the God-forsaken, out-of-the-world, benighted holes, this Bildborough of yours absolutely takes the cake! For sheer ignorance for sheer, thick-headed, bumptious, arrogant ignorance give me your farmers!" "What's wrong?" I asked him. "Wrong? Listen!" he exclaimed, almost dramatically.
Get friendly with the police and newspapers and you'll be all right." So then we all shook hands, and Miss Malloy left us. Me and Buck also rose up and sauntered off a few hundred miles; for we didn't care to be around when them marriage certificates fell due. With about $4,000 between us we hit that bumptious little town off the New Jersey coast they call New York.
There seems to be a bellicose element in the very atmosphere; for every dog in every village I ride through verily takes after me, and I run clean over one bumptious cur, which, miscalculating the speed at which I am coming, fails to get himself out of the way in time.
"Remember, kill me with hard work, but don't let the Souths score!" Ted Teall went to bat first for his side. Teall's grin, as he swung his stick and waited, was more impudent than ever. He meant to show the bumptious Centrals a thing or two. Then in came Dick's wickedest drop ball, and it looked so good that Captain Ted took a free chance. "Strike one!" remarked Umpire Tozier.
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