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Updated: May 27, 2025
And the material turned out was of the coarsest kind, generally second-hand, a hash-up of stories already published, imitations of Monk Lewis, Maturin, Mrs. Radcliffe, and French writers of the same school, with a little shuffling of characters and incidents.
The thoughts of both men flew to Christine as she had been when she first came to London; so happy so radiantly happy. And Jimmy could look farther back still; could see her as she had been in the old days at Upton House when she had been his first love. Jimmy gave a great sigh. "What a damnable hash-up, eh?" he said. "It'll all come right I'm certain it will." Jimmy looked at him affectionately.
She had set the questions not only as a test of memory, but with a view of drawing out original thought. But, to judge from her groans and lamentations, the result was poor. "Of all the dull, stupid, unimaginative sheep! Not an original idea between them. Every answer exactly like the last a hash-up of my own remarks in class.
You see, the Herald lost no money, for they had a fine scoop all to their little selves, while the other papers gnashed their teeth and looked on. Nor was the whole truth told by a long way, but a garbled version about foreign coves who worked the business and bolted, and a doting father who never consented to it and such a hash-up and hocus-pocus as would have made a pig laugh.
To the old pastor of the village, Seraphita-Seraphitus talks with assurance of the essence of phenomena and the invisible world, but, forsooth, only to initiate the shades that visit spiritualistic seances, and to say what is either obscure verbiage, or a hash-up of philosophies often digested without much sustenance derived from them.
The long and short of it was, he must prepare himself and Chaffey's for the inevitable farewell. Why, it wasn't as if they had supplied the rag-tags with a good supper. You should have seen the stuff put before them; every blessed dish a hash-up of leavings and broken meats. No man with a vestige of self-respect could continue to wait at such entertainments.
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