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Explanations they would never permit, though they made it abundantly clear to him that he was the rummiest burglar they had ever set eyes on. They said as much again and again. The fair man was of a taciturn disposition and irascible at play; but Mr. Bingham, now that the evident anxiety of his departure from England was assuaged, displayed a vein of genial philosophy.
"It's a rum case," said the superintendent, rising, "and if you don't mind my saying so, Mr. Beale, you're one of the rummiest men that figure in it. I can't quite make you out. You are not a policeman and yet we have orders from the Foreign Office to give you every assistance. What's the game?"
"Certainly," he rejoined, looking a little surprised, but evidently without suspicion. He was too simple, and too taken up with his shell. "It is such an odd name," I said, trying to recover myself. "Yes! those old pirate chaps certainly did think up some of the rummiest names." "One of the pirate haunts, was it?" I queried with assumed indifference. "Supposed to be.
"But the rummiest go I ever recollect in connection with a baby," continued Henry after a while, his gaze still fixed upon the distant snow- crowned peaks, "happened to me at Warwick in the Jubilee year. I'll never forget that." "Is it a proper story," I asked, "a story fit for me to hear?" On consideration, Henry saw no harm in it, and told it to me accordingly.
The letters giving them the miss-in-baulk in no uncertain voice were only despatched yesterday. But it cannot affect us how they writhe beneath the blow. There is no reprieve." Mike roared with laughter. "It's the rummiest business I ever struck," he said. "I'm jolly glad it's not my paper. It's pretty lucky for you two lunatics that the proprietor's in Europe."
It was a wedge of rock sticking out into the bay, thatched with vines, and with the rummiest old house on the very edge of all, a devil of a height above the sea: you might have sat at the windows and dropped your Sullivan-ends plumb into blue water a hundred and fifty feet below.
Then she whispered to herself: "It's 'cos of Adelaide. Course they don't want to say anything when Addy's there." She strolled away. "What was the child talking about?" asked Adelaide. "I'm sure I don't know," replied Briar. "She's the rummiest little thing that ever walked. But there's no good in taking any notice of what she says." "Of course no one does," answered Adelaide.
We wor a talkin' o' th' murder at th' time, and wonderin' what we wor to do fur another job o' work, things bein' moighty bad heerabouts, when, as we neared top o' th' rise, we heered the rummiest kind o' noise a man ever heerd, comin' from that theer wood by th' pits. Dick says to me, in a skeered kind of voice, 'That's fair a rum un, says he.
'It's a howitzer, said Ken. 'Rummiest looking howitzer I ever saw, Roy answered. 'Looks as if it came out of the Ark. 'Came out of the Crimea, I expect. They used this kind of thing sixty years ago. It's a muzzle loader, you see. 'And shoots real cannon balls, said Roy, pointing to a pyramid of huge iron globes, each about fourteen inches in diameter.
On my affording an opportunity, through the medium of the currency of the realm, of the allaying, at a later period, this beneficial evil, one of the men remarked, "That 'ere 'ouse, guv'nor, is the rummiest I ever was in. Blyme! But it ain't been touched sence a hundred years. There was dust that thick in the place that you might have slep' on it without 'urtin' of yer bones.
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