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Tell me something about Oglethorpe, can't you? I want to hear about him. Quit all that other business!" "Why, Jem Oglethorpe, he why, say, he's one of the best fellows going. If he were only an ass! If he were only an ass, now, you could feel easy in your mind. But he isn't. No, indeed. Why, blast him, there isn't a man that knows him who doesn't like Jem Oglethorpe! Excepting the chumps!"
Kitty knit or crocheted or something of that sort; and Carrie and the Captain and I took cat naps. At length, the sun's rays no longer striking warm from overhead, the Captain aroused us sternly. "You're a nice, energetic, able lot of sportsmen!" he cried with indignation. "Have I got to wait until sunset for you lazy chumps to get a full night's rest?" "Don't mind him," Mrs.
As, bathed in joy and bliss, he watched her up the stairs, a little, obscure compartment of his brain was thinking: 'If anyone had told me two hours ago that before midnight I should be engaged to be married to the finest woman I ever saw, I should have said they were off their chumps. Curious, I've never mentioned her at home since she called! Rather awkward!
And the funny thing is that I keep right on admiring him though I can see all the while that he's the most perfect chump. He is a chump, you know. That's what I love about him. That and the way his ears wiggle when he gets excited. Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his forehead first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate.
Only a sharp click followed, and all in a flash Snap remembered that in the evening he had cleaned the firearm, but had not loaded it. The fox heard the click, caught sight of Snap, and whirling around made a leap for the woods and was out of sight in a twinkling. "Well, of all the chumps in this world, I'm the worst!"
The men in the boat were Moran, the slow-moving character whom Cora had seen in the store; Bruce, the "society" chap; Kelly, a blunt and unscrupulous Irishman, who handled the money for the factory interests, and a man to run the boat. He had been brought in at the last minute. "We lost a lot of time, towing those chumps," grumbled Moran, as the Pickerel forged ahead.
Unless the public occasion appeals strongly to the sympathies or the passions, a picked-up sheriff's posse is not likely to have very good metal in it. Peter Biggin laughed. "Don't be no ways nervous," he said in an aside to Winton. "Them professional veniry chumps couldn't hit the side o' Pacific Peak."
"Well, to look at her as she is now," said Gerald, "why, it would send any one off their chump except us." "We're different, said Jimmy; "our chumps have had to jolly well get used to things. It would take a lot to upset us now." "Poor old Cathy! all the same," said Gerald. "Yes, of course," said Jimmy. The sun had died away behind the black trees and the moon was rising.
Hereward, otherwise "Chumps," put his feet together in the second position, flung out his arms in what was intended to be a graceful attitude, and made a mock bow worthy of the cinema stage. "Have them by all means, Madam!" he replied in mincing accents. "Your humble servant has no wish to disturb your ladyship's elegant repose.
Nobody but chumps, he said, would want to hurt his feelings by making him do trick-mule acts at poor old Bill's funeral 'specially as him and Bill always had been friendly, and nobody was sorrier than he was about the accident that had occurred. Santa Fé was a first-rate talker, and everybody but Cherry allowed what he was letting out had a good deal of sense in it.
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