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"I didn't think I would," he said, struggling for composure, "but after a bit I got in no end of a bait. Curious, ain't it?" "Good for the temper," said the slow-moving Hogan, as they returned arms to the rack. "Did you ever?" said Foxy, hopelessly, to Keyte. "I don't know much about volunteers, but it's the rummiest show I ever saw. I can see what they're gettin' at, though.

Borrow said when I told him, I was describing your man, Corkran, whose place he took on your yacht Candace." "Well, I'm hanged! If that's not the rummiest go! I only hope he's not in that recess or deep doorway now, if it leads into your mountain.

Another, a quiet Georgian manor house, was owned by a London publisher, an ardent Liberal whose particular branch of business compelled him to keep in touch with the new movements. I used to see him hurrying to the station swinging a little black bag and returning at night with the fish for dinner. I soon got to know a surprising lot of people, and they were the rummiest birds you can imagine.

With a man callin' his-self by that name and advertisin' as he'd lecture on 'Measure for Measure, I thought I'd a little bit of all right. But he ran right off the rails an' chatted away about the rummiest things, such as theatricals. I forget what switched 'en off an' on to that partic'lar line: but I well remember his openin' remark.

"Of all rum ways o' treatin' a suspect, this 'ere is the rummiest." Another pause followed, save for a new outburst from Joe, concerning the kinds of vengeance he intended to shortly inaugurate; but presently Brereton and the doctor came across the green, the latter carrying a bottle and spoon in his hand.

It was Balling, one of the cleverest men they've got, but he drinks. I was out with him last night, and he let it out; he said it was the rummiest job they'd had in a long day, and that his chief wouldn't have taken it, but he had a lot of commissions from Mahr, and I guess, besides, he gave some reason for wanting it that sort of squared him. Anyhow, that's how it stands." "Have they got it?"

"It's the rummiest stuff!" said the Bush damsel, hopelessly. She turned to the cover, a dainty thing of pale blue and gold. "William Morris? Didn't we have a stockman once called Bill Morris? But I'm pretty certain he never wrote this. The name's the same, though!" thought Norah, uncertainly. She turned back, and read anew, painstakingly: No meat did ever pass my lips Those days.

I knew nothing of you until Herbert announced that he'd made your acquaintance " "Pray go on," said I, watching her troubled eyes. "It would be interesting to hear how he described me." "He used a very funny word. He said you were the rummiest thing in platers he'd struck for a long while. But, of course, he was talking of the other man."

"Be careful, Barin.... He doesn't know what he's about. He may not recognise you." "Oh, that's all right!" said Lawrence. He pushed the door open and walked in. To give for a moment his own account of it: "You know that room was the rummiest thing. I'd never been into it before. I knew the old fellow was a bit of a dandy, but I never expected to see all the pots and jars and glasses there were.

"Those thick mists," he continued, "always rise on the shores of Afrikey in the early mornings just as there was a thick one when Gil had seen his ghost, as he said and they comes up again when the sun sets; but you never sees 'em when the sun's a-shining bright as it was that arternoon. It was the rummiest weather I ever see.