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They didn't want to start any rumpus and thus lose their places at this attractive table. And that is one way that virtue is its own reward. Only the well-behaved fellows were tipped off to the pie bonanza. From this I learned that the better manners you have, the better fare you will get in this world.
"Yes. It sounded like the voice we heard at the grave." "I thought I heard it from the library," Robinson put in. "Then the rumpus up here started, and I forgot about it." "The woman in black is very brave," Paredes mused. "We should have had a visit from her long before this." "Do you know who she is?" Robinson asked. "And as Rawlins says, no tricks. We haven't let you go yet."
These words plunged the scholars of the whole class in such consternation that they all wistfully and absently looked at him. "Ming Yen," hastily shouted out Chia Jui, "you're not to kick up a rumpus." Chin Jung was so full of anger that his face was quite yellow. "What a subversion of propriety! a slave and a menial to venture to behave in this manner!
If he will let us have them without rumpus, all well and good; if not, it will be the worse for him.
A pause for a moment ensued, and then the elder Hennion spoke: "Waal, Meredith, hev yer rumpus with yer servant, but fust off let me say the say ez me and Phil come fer." "And what 's that?" "I rayther guess yer know areddy," continued the father, while the son's face became of the colour of the hickory embers.
Tom said nothing till they had breasted a hill, at the top of which he paused panting, and confronted David. 'Noo yo'll not mak a rumpus, Davy, he said, mistrustfully. 'An if do, can't a hundred or two o' yo kick me out? asked David, mockingly. 'I'll mak no rumpus. P'raps yor Mr. Dyson'll convert me. And he walked on laughing.
She safe an' soun'. Jes' yuh come in de back way, an' I'll git yuh some dry things. An' Sylvy won't say nothin'. I jes' know she wont, an' yuh can git dry by de kitchen fire. I reckon Miss Flo'ence mighty 'shamed o' herse'f, kickin' up all dis rumpus 'bout nothin'." But Dimple shook her head. "It wasn't about nothing. I behaved just as mean as could be, and I'm the one to be ashamed.
Terence said, in a tone of surprise. "Well, as, fortunately, I was sitting here when this row began, you cannot suspect me this time." "I don't know; you and Ryan came in together, which was suspicious in itself, and it was not two minutes after you had come in that the rumpus began. Just give me a wink, lad, if you had a finger in the matter.
"Back again, brother," Jack observed, as he clasped the extended hand of his partner, then, gave a queer grimace upon taking note of the splintered coaming of the sloop as well as the badly pockmarked barricade of mahogany logs. "Say, what's all this mean, I want to know looks like you might have been mixed up in some sort of rumpus while I was away!" Perk grinned and nodded his head cheerfully.
Jim leaned back upon one elbow. "What was that rumpus last night," he inquired, "right after we started?" Then he showed his thoughts. "I mean, the horse." Johnson swung his head around. For a moment he appeared not to understand. Then suddenly his eyes lost their good-humored twinkle and grew hard. "Lost one," he answered, abruptly. "The horse stalled."
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