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"And to think of you sitting there saying it! And I reckon they've got a pretty rummy old Pa if the truth was only known." Pa's grin, if possible, stretched wider. Again that terrible chuckle, which suggested a derangement of his internal parts, or the running-down of an overwound clock, wheezed across the startled air. "Maybe," Pa said, with some unpardonable complacency. "Maybe."
"Why on earth," Jim reflected, "couldn't she have left the old chap alone? The party was all right without him we didn't want any one else least of all an odd oddity like this." And though the other boys were loyal to Norah, she certainly suffered a fall in their estimation, and was classed for the moment with the usual run of "girls who do rummy things."
"If any rummy thinks he can butt in on you an' me, he'll learn different, an' I'm the little boy that'll learn 'm. Friday night, eh? Where?" "I won't tell you." "Where?" he repeated. Her lips were drawn in tight silence, and in her cheeks were little angry spots of blood. "Huh! As if I couldn't guess! Germania Hall. Well, I'll be there, an' I'll take you home afterward. D'ye get that?
Such translucent beings never considered their unhappiness. They never considered anything at all but just engaged in their habits, instincts, preoccupation, and general movement. She was just beginning to get the knack of avoiding her stray thoughts through Gin Rummy games, and winning some of them too, but then Hispanic Betty also left.
It's rummy how the passage of time sort of changes a fellow's point of view. Why, when she told me about her engagement, I congratulated her as cheerfully as dammit! And only a few weeks ago...." "Her engagement!" exclaimed Sam, leaping like a stricken blanc-mange. "Her en-gug-gug-gagement!" "To Bream Mortimer, you know," said Eustace Hignett. "She got engaged to him the day before yesterday."
One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room. He's like one of those weird chappies in India who dissolve themselves into thin air and nip through space in a sort of disembodied way and assemble the parts again just where they want them.
Miss Elton, I didn't mean a word of all that about your being so clever. You're all right." "Thanks for the tribute," Madeline smiled as he disappeared down the drive. "Dick, I wish you'd always be on hand when he comes. He makes my brain feel like a woolly dog." "Rummy chap," said Norris.
"I'm gettin' the hang of the geography of that place," he said to himself, as he shaved next morning. "I must have made some sort of circle. Let's see. And that atlas-country lies at the back of the Thirty-Mile Ride, somewhere out to the right beyond the hills and tunnels. Rummy things, dreams. 'Wonder what makes mine fit into each other so?"
They don't have much to do with me neither, 'n' she don't fall fur De Mott, so her 'n' me sees each other a lot. "She's a bug over hosses 'n' the track. She wants me to tell her all about trainin' a hoss 'n' startin' a hoss 'n' fifty other things besides. "'I always lose, she says. 'But then, I'm a rummy. Can you tell which horse is going to win, Blister? "'Sometimes, I says.
After being lonesome for a month or so they begun fillin' their 20 odd bedrooms with guests of their own choosin'. Course, some of 'em that I saw arrivin' looked a bit rummy, but it was plain the Zoscos didn't intend to bank on the neighbors for company. Maybe they didn't want us crashin' in either, as Mr. Robert suggests. You couldn't worry Mrs. Robert with hints like that, though.
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