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Updated: June 25, 2025
"Well, of all the pot calling kettle black as ever I knowed on," said Tom Fillot, "that's about the rummest. Why, your head's all o' one side like an ugly turmut, and your eyes is on'y two slits." "We ain't none on us got much to boast on, 'cept our orficer," said Dick Bannock. "Pass that there tin." "To be sure," said Tom Fillot, "and handsome is as handsome does.
Half the people who go to the Haverstocks don't wear evening dress on principle. That's their way of showing their contempt for conventionality. I suppose you'll come with me?" John nodded his head. "Good! We'll start off immediately after we've had our dinner. You'll get a good dose of Truth to-night, my son. There was a couple went there once ... the rummest couple I ever saw in my life.
"I have created birds," he said in a low voice. "New birds. Improvements. Like no birds that was ever seen before." He resumed his attitude during an impressive silence. "Enrich the universe; rath-er. Some of the birds I made were new kinds of humming birds, and very beautiful little things, but some of them were simply rum. The rummest, I think, was the Anomalopteryx Jejuna.
Instead of pulling out a book, however, he pulled open a cupboard, only inhabited by a lazy housemaid's broom and duster, at which he looked exceedingly discomfited; while Nelson Collingwood, losing all respect, burst into a roar of laughter. 'That's the rummest book I ever saw, says Nelson. 'I wish we'd no others at Merchant Taylors'. 'Hush, Nelson! cries Mrs.
And what business had he to be offen the trail, when his wife was on it? That's what I want to know. And, anyways, it's the rummest go as ever was. Did you hear anythink about it, Ishmael?" "I chanced to overhear Lady Vincent say to her father that she was alone. That was all. I did not even see her ladyship." "Well, now, that's another rum go. Didn't wait to see her. And you sich friends? Owtch!
"A man at the point of death does not stop to think about etiquet. She saved my life." "Saved your life! That sounds romantic." "There was precious little romance about it, though I owe my being alive now to her presence of mind. It happened in the rummest way. I was brought behind the scenes one night by a Cambridge chum. We were painting the town a bit red.
'And what, said Ralph, hesitating a little, 'what was the cause of quarrel? 'You are the demdest, knowing hand, replied Mr Mantalini, in an admiring tone, 'the cunningest, rummest, superlativest old fox oh dem! to pretend now not to know that it was the little bright-eyed niece the softest, sweetest, prettiest 'Alfred! interposed Madame Mantalini.
He had tried hard not to think what "Booster's" face would look like; he had tried hard not to laugh as long as Peggy's head was on his shoulder, for fear of hurting her feelings; but when she took it off he did give one half-strangled snort; for it really was the rummest thing that had ever happened to him.
"This is the rummest thing I ever saw," he muttered; "the fellow can't have flown away; yet, he certainly has not walked off." Thinking it over, an idea suddenly occurred to him. When sailing along the coast with Bill, the latter had one day pointed out to him a hole in the cliff some twenty feet above high-water mark. "Do you see that hole, Mr. Julian?" "Yes, I see it plain enough. What of it?"
It is the rummest case on record! Mr. Raymond," and his eyes, in his excitement, actually met mine for the first time in my experience of him, "prepare yourself for a disappointment. This pretended confession of Hannah's is a fraud!" "A fraud?" "Yes; fraud, forgery, what you will; the girl never wrote it." Amazed, outraged almost, I bounded from my chair. "How do you know that?" I cried.
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