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Updated: June 9, 2025
"Havin' said I would clean house, I will clean house," she mused, "in spite of all the ingratitude and not listenin'. 'T won't take long, and it'll do my heart good to see the place clean again. Evelina's got no gumption about a house never did have.
Genius makes many enemies, but it makes sure friends friends who forgive much, who endure long, who exact little; they partake of the character of disciples as well as friends. Experience. 'Tis a pity that the more one sees, the more suspicious one grows. One does not have gumption till one has been properly cheated one must be made a fool very often in order not to be fooled at last!
Dr. dear, and a man should be master in his own household, and his women folk should bow to his decrees. I flatter myself that I am becoming quite efficient in economizing" Susan had taken to using certain German terms with killing effect "but one can exercise a little gumption on the quiet now and then.
I can give my experience, can I? Well, that's jest what I'm a-doin', says she; 'and while I'm about it, says she, 'I'll give in some experience for 'Lizabeth and Maria and the rest of the women who, betwixt their husbands an' the 'Postle Paul, have about lost all the gumption and grit that the Lord started them out with.
I'd never blame you for leaving an old man without any gumption." He must never think that again, she replied. Wasn't she, too, middle-aged? Linda admitted, definitely, the loss of her youth; and yet a stubborn inner conviction remained that she was unchanged. In this she had for support her appearance; practically she was as freshly and gracefully pale as the girl who had married Arnaud Hallet.
The big, white light-house on the red sandstone cliff had its good points; but no stork possessed of any gumption would leave a new, velvet baby there. An old gray house, surrounded by willows, in a blossomy brook valley, looked more promising, but did not seem quite the thing either. The staring green abode further on was manifestly out of the question. Then the stork brightened up.
And as soon as the proper persons have been fixed upon, everything will be square enough." "What you say is all very well," T'an Ch'un rejoined, "but it will be necessary to let your lady know something about it. It has never been the proper thing for us in here to scrape together any small profits. But as your mistress is full of gumption, I adopted the course I did.
When we move to a new place they pick up what they can about it by hearsay; not one of our lot has the gumption to possess a contoured map or a Michelin guide. They have hearsay minds. They are fussy and petty and wasteful and, in the way of getting things done, pretentious. By their code they're paragons of honour.
Tio Mariano listened to the Rector with eyes half closed and a vertical line knit between his eyebrows. "Be d d, be d d! Of course! Not a bad idea at all, not at all!" That's the way he liked people with some gumption!
He did not have the gumption to see that Whitman made the experience of all men his own, and that his scheme included the evil as well as the good; that especially did he exploit the unloosed, all-loving, all-accepting natural man, the man who is done with conventions, illusions and all morbid pietisms, and who gives himself lavishly to all that begets and sustains life.
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