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She gave a cry of motherly compassion for Braintop, and began to relate the little deficiencies of his temper, while, as it were, simmering on her seat to go to him. Wilfrid sent out word for him to appear, which he did, unluckily for himself, even as Mrs. Chump wound up the public description of his character by remarking: "He's just the opposite of a lord, now, in everything."
Chump is here, you have quarrelled with her, and she has shut her door, and you have shut yours. It's quite intelligible and full of dignity. I really can't smother my voice in consequence." He laughed with unnecessary abandonment. The sensitive young women wanted no other schooling to recover themselves.
"And what on earth can that be?" interposed Arabella. "You may well ask. Could a genie have guessed that Mrs. Chump was at the bottom of it all? The conclusion of the dreadful discussion is this, that papa offers to take the purchase of Besworth into his consideration, if we, as I said before, will receive Mrs. Chump as our honoured guest.
Barrett ventured to play the intelligent Cornelia like a fish; but such a fish was best secured by the method he adopted: that of giving her signal victory in trifles, while on vital matters he held his own. Very pleasant evenings now passed at Brookfield, which were not at all disturbed by the wonder expressed from time to time by Mr. Pole, that he had not heard from Martha, meaning Mrs. Chump.
Tom stood at last with the handcuffs on. "It's your own fault, you damned little chump!" he said to me, as they went out. You lie, Mag Monahan, he's no such thing! He may be a hard man to live with, but he's mine my Tom my Tom! What? Latimer? Well, do you know, it's funny about him. He'd told the cop that I'd peached peached on Tom! So they went off without me. Why?
"It's bound to work. I've recommended it to Tuppy." "Young Glossop?" "In order to soften Angela." "Splendid!" "And to Gussie Fink-Nottle, who wants to make a hit with the Bassett." "Well, well, well! What a busy little brain it is." "Always working, Aunt Dahlia, always working." "You're not the chump I took you for, Bertie." "When did you ever take me for a chump?" "Oh, some time last summer.
Chump, for which they partly condemned themselves; but, as they said, "Only hear her!" The excitable woman was swelling from conjecture to certainty on a continuous public cry of, "'Pon my hon'r! d'ye think little Belloni's gone and marrud Pole?" Emilia's supposed flight had deeply grieved the ladies, when alarm and suspicion had subsided.
"Vat you standing there for? Vhy don't you do it if you're so light on your feet?" "Well, I can!" Skinny argued, still hesitating. "Den go ahead and chump chump I told you into the box!" Leon shouted excitedly. Skinny jumped. The eggs crushed under the heels of his riding boots. In an instant the box was filled with a squashy mass of whites, yolks and broken shells.
He especially hated his head, so big that he had trouble in buying his hats, and uncompromisingly square in shape; a perfect block-head. His name was another source of humiliation. Claude: it was a "chump" name, like Elmer and Roy; a hayseed name trying to be fine. In country schools there was always a red-headed, warty-handed, runny-nosed little boy who was called Claude.
They did not seek comfort in an interchange of glances, but dropped their eyes, and masked their sight as they best could. Caesar assassinated did a similar thing. "My dears!" pursued Mrs. Chump, in Irish exaggerated by wine, "I've found 'm for ye! And if ye'd seen 'm this afternoon the little peaky, shaky fellow that he was! and a doctor, too, feelin' his pulse.
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