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Do you feel strong enough to go with me in your gig a little way?" "A professional call?" "Yes, and a difficult case; also a confidential one." "Ah! confidential!" said the little man, in his painful, husky irony. "You want to get me into the sort of scrape I got our 'professor' into, eh?" "Possibly a worse one," replied the amiable Creole. "And I must be mum, eh?" "I would prefer."
"I would have been out long ago to call on you a sort of relation as you are now, as I may say but it was kept all so mum, one never knew the time to drink your health; and my Cousins Treforth wouldn't so much as give me a hint. But la! says I, why should you talk about artfulness? I'm right glad poor Mr. Amyas should find a sprightly young lady to cure him of his mopishness.
Gamp and her tribe into' Mum, is in substance equivalent to' Your exalted, or' Your Highness. Ma Dame originally meaning high- born or stately, and being applied only to ladies of the highest rank. "To turn to our every-day forms of salutation. We take off our hats on visiting an acquaintance. We bow on being introduced to strangers. We rise when visitors enter our drawing-room.
And you, my dear Jack, perhaps half the sum may be of use to you!" "To me! my dear brother," cried Uncle Jack "to me! Why when my new speculation has succeeded, I shall be a millionnaire!" "Have you a new speculation, uncle?" said I, anxiously. "What is it?" "Mum!" said my uncle, putting his finger to his lip, and looking all round the room; "Mum! Mum!" Pisistratus.
"Not these you can't, mum. It's like this: You and me, we don't start, so to speak, from the same basin. I don't mean it as any reproach to you, but you can't deny you're an Eathen, and, worse than that, an Eathen goddess. Now all my family have been brought up as chapel folk, Primitive Methodists, and I've been trained to have a horror of superstition and idolatries, and see the folly of it.
It was: "Oh, my poor pet Mumpsy, and he didn't like a nasty great big ugly heavy foot an his poor soft silky mum mum back, he didn't, and he soodn't that he mum mum soodn't; and he cried out and knew the place to come to, and was oh so sorry for what had happened to him mum mum mum and now he was going to be made happy, his mistress make him happy mum mum mum moo-o-o-o."
"Er rum!" coughed the Doctor. "My good woman," he cried severely, "what is the meaning of this intrusion?" "You may call it what you like, sir," cried Cook sharply; "and you too, mum," she continued, turning to Mrs Doctor, "and give me my month, or distant ismissal if you like." Cook meant to say, "instant dismissal," but she was excited, and, giving a defiant look round, she went on,
Now don't think this is good-bye just because I'm sailing but remember the Atlantic Ocean isn't a one way street. Just chalk that up on the wall, and speaking about oceans don't forget about the water by the woodshed and do what I told you. So now good-bye dear old Mum and don't worry, and I won't go near Paris like you said. Hicksville is good enough for me. Your loving son. Old Mrs.
"It's made such a difference up here, there being so much less smoke, that upon my word the curtains will do another three months quite well!" "Well, mum, I never did!" observed Maria, meaning that so shocking a proposal was unprecedented in her experience. Yet she was thirty-five. "Quite well!" said Mrs Garlick, gaily. Maria said no more.
He twice examined each word in the dictionary, from beginning to end, in his ardent desire to master the English language. John Philpot Curran The well-known case of John Philpot Curran should give encouragement to every aspiring student of public speaking. He was generally known as "Orator Mum," because of his failure in his first attempt at public speaking.
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