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I'll hold my hands to my heart, and keep in everything; but, oh, Mrs. O'Shanaghgan, if I am fit to burst now and then, you will let me run to the window and give a big sigh? It is all I'll ask, to relieve myself; but mum's the word for everything else." On these terms Mrs. O'Shanaghgan conducted her unwelcome guest through the rooms, and after a brief tour Biddy joined her companions in the yard.
And it's understood that mum's the word; but mind you're not through the wood yet. What do you say, Yaunie?" "I say you no speak so loud or so much. It is better not." "Very well, old skin-the-goat," said Farquarson playfully; "I suppose I am a bit noisy."
Lucy darling girl that she is has had pity upon me at last, and has condescended to set all my fears at rest; so you may congratulate me if you like." "Upon her having accepted you as as her future husband?" gasped Leicester, white to the very lips. "Exactly; I knew you would be glad to hear it, being an old friend of hers," was the reply. "But mum's the word for the present.
Well, since you've acted so handsome about that there pig, what's to be named for Stokes, I don't mind if I tells you something. Only mum's the word." We said we were quite sure it was. "Well, then," said he, leaning over the pig-stye wall, and rubbing the spotted pig's back with his stick. "It's an ill wind that blows no good to nobody.
"She's shamming, the little monkey." Jerrold thought he knew why. He turned into the old nursery that was the schoolroom now, and found Eliot there, examining a fly's leg under his microscope. It was Eliot that he wanted.. "I say, you know, Mum's making a jolly mistake about that kid. Trying to go on as if she was Anne's mother. You can see it makes her sick. It would me, if my mother was dead."
"Why, yes, no, that is, I'm going down along, little uncertain how far, depends on circumstances." "So, so, I see, mum's the word."
"I feel as if I must know his name," she said. "Madge, help me persuade the Colonel to tell us." She went to him and petted him. "Colonel, you will not refuse me!" Madge looked at him apprehensively, warningly. "An' I reckon you won't refuse me, Colonel." Then, going close to him, she whispered: "Remember, mum's the word!" "Away, you tempters, away!" the Colonel cried, and waved them from him.
"Why, boy, I owe you everything. No nonsense between friends, you see." "I don't see " began Frank. Old Dobbins placed a finger beside his nose in a crafty, expressive way. He winked blandly at Frank, with the mysterious words: "That's all right, Frank, boy. No need of going into particulars, but you know right enough. Mum's the word. Take the five dollars."
"Mum's the word; and we've only got to say she's goin' to visit one of your old friends in Anjer which'll be quite true, you know, for the landlady o' the chief hotel there is a great friend o' yours, and we'll take Kathy to her straight. Besides, the trip will do her health a power o' good, though I'm free to confess it don't need no good to be done to it, bein' A1 at the present time.
Is the offspring a-takin' his oats reg'lar? 'Lord! said Mrs. Mathews irrelevantly, subsiding into a chair, 'I thought you was dead. You never writ. 'That, said Mathews, 'was conseckens of a understanding clear and likewise to the point, atwixt me and Mas'r Dick. "Mum's the word," sez he. "Mum's the word," sez I. And that there was as it should be, no argifyin' provin' contrairiwise.
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