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"Should say so," returned 'Zekiel. "The less you think the better, I should suppose, if that's the case. I've got to be going now." "And you'll send the telegram surely, and you won't speak of it to any one?" "Mum's the word, and I'll send it if it's the last act; but don't put all your eggs in one basket, little kid. I know Dr.
"Mum's the word, of course, and I swear a shaven face becomes you most deyvilishly!" "Perhaps you will be so obliging as to tell me what you mean?" said I, frowning. "Oh, by gad!" he cried, fairly hugging himself with delight. "Oh, the devil! this is too rich too infernally rich, on my life and soul it is!"
"Well, THAT'S all right then, thank goodness." Says I, kind of timid-like: "Is something gone wrong?" The king whirls on me and rips out: "None o' your business! You keep your head shet, and mind y'r own affairs if you got any. Long as you're in this town don't you forgit THAT you hear?" Then he says to the duke, "We got to jest swaller it and say noth'n': mum's the word for US."
Oh, mum's the word, is it?" as Tom laid his finger on his lips. "Come here, then, and let's have a look at you!" and he catches both Tom's hands in his, and almost shakes them off. "I knew you were coming, old boy! Mary told me she's in all the old man's secrets. Come along, Mary, and see your old playfellow. She has got a little fruit for the old gentleman.
"That's jist what I think, too, Tam," put in another voice. "I'd mak' sure work that the collier ate pork for yince. Come on, boys, an' mum's the word," and he proceeded to drive the pig further along the village, followed by a few enthusiastic backers.
"Mum's the word, Cappen." Gillie had been shorn of his blue tights and brass buttons, poor Mrs Stoutley having found it absolutely necessary, on her return home, to dismiss all her servants, dispose of all her belongings, and retire into the privacy of a poor lodging in a back street.
"I hope you won't think I'm actin' forward, because I ain't one o' the presumin' kind. I just wanted to do somethin' to help out because your mother was a very lovely lady. Three times a day for ten years she give me my change an' there never was a time when she didn't have a decent, kindly word for me the only good woman in this town that'd look at me God bless her! Mum's the word, Miss Donnie.
"Well, then, Dom, it's agreed on, that we are to go on as if we knew nothing about this matter, and take no notice of it whatever to any one not even to Pina." "Yes, Otto, that's it. Of course I don't like to have any sort of secret from Pina, but it would be cruel in us to fill her mind with alarm for no good purpose. No mum's the word. Take no notice whatever. Morris may repent.
While you eat your dinner, I will go into the kitchen; and if he is not there, Phoebe will be sure to tell me all that she has heard." "Do not say that I am here, Oswald, as I do not wish to see the intendant." "Mum's the word, sir; but you must stay in the cottage, or others will see you, and it may come to his ears."
"Is it to-morrow night you want the boat, Miss Biddy?" said Neil. Bridget dropped her voice to a whisper. "Look here, Neil," she said, "mum's the word; you are not to let it out to a soul. You and Mike shall come with us, and Miss Nora is coming too." Neil cast a bashful and admiring glance at handsome Nora, as she stood very erect by Biddy's side. "All right, miss," he said.
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