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"Well, hows'ever that may be, there he was alongside o' the driver. But what staggers of me is, that there wa'n't no Lord Vincent nowhere to be seen! He was 'mong the missin'. And that was the rummest go as ever was. A new bride a-comin' home to her 'pa without no bridegroom. And so I jest axed Mr. Frisbie, Esquire, and he telled me how his lordship missed the trail. What trail!
There ain't nothing so bad when anything's up against one as letting on that one wants to bolt. He knows all that. He'll stand his ground. He won't bolt." "I don't suppose as he will, Gager. It's a rum go; ain't it? the rummest as I ever see." This remark had been made so often by Mr. Bunfit, that Gager had become almost weary of hearing it. "Oh, rum; rum be b What's the use of all that?
"That is just how I feel, Jim," Arthur replied, and Jack agreed. "Well, this is the rummest affair!" Jim said more cheerfully, now it seemed that none of them had sustained any very serious injury. "It seems like a dream," Arthur said. "It is a good deal too real to be a dream, it is a mighty unpleasant reality.
The owls, no doubt, live on little prairie-dogs, and the rattlesnakes may sometimes eat an old one. Still, there it is; they never seem afraid of each other, and no one, as far as I knows, has ever seen a prairie dog fifty yards away from his town. The rummest thing about them is as every town has got its well.
"There's nothing decent nearer than Godbury," he said. "Twenty-three miles. There's an inn at Hurley of a sort. There's no town there to speak of, you know. It's only a junction." "Oh! well, I'll risk the inn at Hurley for one night," I said. "What about your things?" he asked. "Blast!" was my only comment. "Rummest go I ever heard of," Banks interjected thoughtfully.
I wished myself well out of the job when I saw how cut up he was." Bernald thrilled at the words. Pellerin had shared his pang, then the "old woe of the world" at the perpetuity of human dulness! "But what did he say to the charge of plagiarism if you made it?" "Oh, I told him straight out what Howland said. I thought it fairer. And his answer to that was the rummest part of all." "What was it?"
You might do worse, you know, than make a friend of me." "You won't publish them?" "Certainly not. I shall only refer to them." Then Lopez pulled a bundle of papers out of his pocket. "There they are," he said. "Well," said Slide, when he had read them; "it is one of the rummest transactions I ever 'eard of. Why did 'e send the money? That's what I want to know.
"When the invisible guests appeared to have had all they could eat, she began the chatty part again, and never seemed to be disturbed but once, when she requested some one not to sing so loud for fear of disturbing the family. "Altogether it was the weirdest and rummest thing I'd ever seen in my life. We watched it for one full hour, and then we quit because she did.
Yet when it does rain, then I find that I love the rain too, that I love it just as much as the sun, it is so fresh, it smells so good, the raindrops are so pretty, and they make such a pretty sound where they fall, and the grey light is so pleasant." "Our loves," said John, "are always very strange. Love is the rummest miracle of them all.
"Rummest card, sir, I ever lagged in my natural," he said. "How's that? inquired Mr. McEachern amiably. "Why," grinned Mr. Galer, "you'll hardly believe it, sir, but he had the impudence, the gall, if I may use the word, the sauce to tell me he was in my own line of business. A detective, sir! Said he was going into the room to keep guard. I said to him at the time, I said, it's too thin, cocky.
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