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Updated: May 18, 2025
Educated in the hugger-mugger way in which are educated the girls who will not have to use their knowledge to earn a livelihood; with, it must be confessed, the great and rare in these days asset of perfect manners and courtesy towards all mankind, yet had she never been taught the rudiments of self-control and deliberation.
And here Ranny's difficulties began; for neither Violet nor her parents would hear of their living in two rooms. Violet, who had lived in one room, said that living in two rooms was horrible, and Mrs. Usher said that Violet was right. It was better for all parties to begin as you meant to go on. Begin in hugger-mugger and you may end in it.
'But, mater, protested Dick, 'I can't go about asking who'll buy a whole bandbox full of jewels! 'Oh, very well, then; I suppose we must go on living this hugger-mugger life when we have the means of being as rich as princes, just because you are too lazy and selfish to take a little trouble! 'I know something about these things, said Dick.
The assassin, tortured and torn by four horses, was supposed to have revealed nothing and to have denied the existence of accomplices. The great accused were too omnipotent to be dealt with by humble accusers or by convinced but powerless tribunals. The trial was all mystery, hugger-mugger, horror.
Work can only be got through by method. Muddle flies before it, and hugger-mugger becomes a thing unknown. Method demands punctuality, another eminently business quality. The unpunctual woman, like the unpunctual man, occasions dislike, because she consumes and wastes time, and provokes the reflection that we are not of sufficient importance to make her more prompt.
It instinctively rejects, on the contrary, whatever shall call up the image of our race upon its lowest terms, as the partner of beasts, beastly itself, dwelling pell-mell and hugger-mugger, hairy man with hairy woman, in the caves of old.
'I'm going to cut your comb. And he took the old horse by head, and rammed him at us slap-bang, like riding at a bull-finch; and the whole blanky lot after him." The Parson was stamping up and down, roaring out his story, his eyes laughing and battle-lusty. "Such a hell of a hugger-mugger you never saw! They rolled in on us like the sea.
Every one knew it was a retreat, and the knowledge was colder than the mist of night. The carts, carrying the quick and the dead, rumbled by in a long convoy, the drooping heads of the soldiers turned neither to the right nor to the left for any greeting with old friends; there was a hugger-mugger of uniforms on provision carts and ambulances.
Suddenly from a tunnel, hidden by a fold in the ground, an avalanche of bombs was hurled over our heads, and before we could collect our wits ten of our men had fallen dead and wounded, all hugger-mugger. I opened my mouth to shout a word of command when a pebble, knocked by a piece of shell, struck me on the head and I fell, quite dazed. But my unconsciousness only lasted a second or two.
"They can't do it, by Act of Parliament, except in a hugger-mugger left-handed way, that wouldn't suit you at all." "Mr. Longstaff, you must forgive me if I say that of all the gentlemen I have ever met in this country or in any other you are the most obtuse."
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