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Updated: June 16, 2025
A clergyman may be a very stupid, hum-drum, tiresome fellow, as well as any other man. Don't pretend to deny that." "I would as lief not hear them called so but this was not Mr. Hughes." "Oh, no! I remember now you were not in his parish. If you went down Briarwood-lane far enough you would be in Briarwood parish. Mr. Thomas, perhaps." "No." "Mr. Thomas's curate. Oh! of course the curate.
The girls could tell from Meggy's popping eyes that the delicacies they drew forth from Miz Cummins' lunch basket had never been dreamed of in all her hum-drum, joyless life.
"An introduction to Miss Clarice de Dear, who had appeared in the original Black Crook company with Lydia Thompson, was no every-day occurrence in my hum-drum existence, and I was perhaps visibly affected. She overlooked it, and greeted me with girlish enthusiasm. "'Tho glad, she lisped, 'to meet any friend of the dear Judge's, and ethpethially you.
She was only a girl, and she looked like a thousand others I have seen, but never a girl provoked such a novel and peculiar interest in me before. A strange, new sensation is a rare thing in this hum-drum life, and I had it here. There was nothing stale or worn out about the thoughts and feelings the situation and the circumstances created.
But now do tell me, that's a dear girl, what your adventure was." "I only saw a clergyman reading to a poor woman or rather I only saw a clergyman, a Bible, and a poor woman, and thence concluded that he had been reading to her." "Oh! you tiresome creature. Poor, dear, old Mr. Hughes, I'll be bound. Good old fellow but such a hum-drum. Nay, Lettice, my dear, don't look shocked and cross.
But first of all she must study geology, and especially the history of the extinct races of animals their natures, their habits, their loves, their hates, their revenges. She must " "Hold, h-o-o-old!" roared Hum-Drum. "It is certainly my turn now. My rooted and insubvertible conviction is, that the causes of the anomalies evident in the princess's condition are strictly and solely physical.
This has been especially the case when the hum-drum of the Boulevards has driven me from the fascinations of the Beau Quartier into the by-ways of the Marais and the fastnesses of what was once the Latin Quarter.
The queen laughed; but Hum-Drum and Kopy-Keck heard with humility and retired in silence. The consultation consisted chiefly in propounding and supporting, for the thousandth time, each his favourite theories. For the condition of the princess afforded delightful scope for the discussion of every question arising from the division of thought-in fact, of all the Metaphysics of the Chinese Empire.
This has been especially the case when the hum-drum of the Boulevards has driven me from the fascinations of the Beau Quartier into the by-ways of the Marais and the fastnesses of what was once the Latin Quarter.
I was working ten hours a day in the jute mills. It was hum-drum machine toil. I wanted life. I wanted to realise myself in other ways than at a machine for ten cents an hour. And yet I had had my fill of saloons. I wanted something new. I was growing up. I was developing unguessed and troubling potencies and proclivities.
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