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Updated: May 29, 2025
He knew why Aggie always contrived to meet him in the street, and he thought that she was a poor fool of a girl to do it. And her brother Willie was a "great gumph of a fellow," to go capering up and down the road in the evenings after any girl that would say a civil word to him or laugh when he laughed!... All the same, women mattered to men.
"I wish you wouldn't talk so to me, now," she said, "as if I didn't care anything when you're all going away and have been so good to me and father. And I don't care about Obadiah either, and you needn't say so. He's just a great gumph." At this point, the conversation was abruptly broken off by the noise of the latchstring being pulled. Both turned.
After a moment he said, 'It was just an accident then, after all. 'Yes ... Clare was talking to him when he fell.... She's only just told about it, because you were being suspected. But I never know whether to believe Clare; she's such a gumph. I had to ask you.... What made you suspect me, by the way? 'Your manner, that first morning.
I tell you there's a queer differs these times between schooling from what there was when I was a scholar, and you'd be the great gumph if you didn't take advantage of your good fortune!" "But I'd like to help you, Uncle William. Do you not understand me? I want to be doing something for you!" John insisted. "I understand you well enough, son.
As Submit released her and she rushed away, Obadiah followed her. "Haow'd ye like it?" he said, with a sickly grin of jealous irony. "I see ye didn' cover yer face very tight, he! he! Took keer to leave a hole, he! he!" The girl turned on him like a flash and gave him a resounding slap on the cheek. "Take that, you great gumph!" she exclaimed.
"You are making love to Priscilla; but the joke is, you have been persuaded to do it for somebody else, when all the time you would like to do it for yourself." "I wouldn't be such a gumph as that!" muttered Alexander as he fell back into position. "Who am I, to begin with?" "A highly respectable old Puritan. The lady was surprised at him and he came to his senses, but that is not in the picture.
"What am I doing?" said Alexander, breaking from his prescribed attitude to turn round and face the company. "You are making love to Priscilla; but the joke is, you have been persuaded to do it for somebody else, when all the time you would like to do it for yourself." "I wouldn't be such a gumph as that!" muttered Alexander, as he fell back into position. "Who am I, to begin with?"
John repeated the poem entitled "Life" to Hinde. "What do you think of that?" he asked. "I don't think anything of it," Hinde replied. John felt reassured. "I asked him where the rest of it was, and he nearly ate the face off me," he said. "I was afraid he'd think me a terrible gumph!..." "If you let a humbug like that impose upon you, Mac, I'll never own you for my friend.
But, personally, it was a blow to the filibuster, because he knew that the governor would not hesitate to execute his friend if his fancy or his fears ran that way, and the big, red-headed Celt would not have let Bucky go to death for a dozen teapot revolutions if he could help it. "And do you think you're fit to run even a donation party, you great, blundering gumph?"
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