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Updated: September 29, 2025
"Take an oar, Captain," one of the men had said to him as soon as he had placed the ladies. "Not to-day, Jack," he had answered. "I'll content myself with being bo'san this morning." "The best thing as the bo'san does is to pipe all hands to grog," said the man. "I won't be behind in that either," said the captain; and so they all went on swimmingly.
"If you find it does sound hollow, will Colonel Lisle let us punch a hole?" "Sure," said Max encouragingly. "I know jolly well he will. Uncle Dick will be game for any investigation. Only he'll have to be convinced that I'm not pulling his leg. If that north wall resounds like a tomb, I'll tow Uncle down to hark for himself. Why, man, we're getting on swimmingly!
Affairs went swimmingly, and I believed the balloon to be going upward with a speed increasing momently although I had no longer any means of ascertaining the progression of the increase.
He changed the subject abruptly. "You and Clyde Burnaby seemed to be getting on swimmingly." "Clyde is that her name?" said Dunne. "Seems like a nice girl." "She's all of that. You know who she is, of course?" "Not a bit. Just her name." "Niece of old Jim Hess, with a fortune of her own." "Pretty lucky," Dunne commented. "Pretty and lucky," said his host.
"It ain't much I ask of you in return for your keep;" and then he would scowl at her with bloodshot eyes till she shook in her shoes. But this did not happen often, as experiences had made her careful. But on this present Christmas festival all went swimmingly to the end.
Matters were going on swimmingly, and I had three times ventured a remark, when Anna, who was sitting near the window, exclaimed, "Look here, girls, did you ever see a finer-looking gentleman?" at the same time calling their attention to a stranger in the street.
"That's the way to talk," he said, with satisfaction. "Just you keep on that tack, Ida May, and things will go swimmingly, I've no doubt." In ten minutes he was briskly on his way to the town. The girl watched him from the back stoop as long as he was to be seen in the morning mist.
It was admitted by all who envied or admired her that she could enter a church more gracefully, move more swimmingly up the aisle, and pray better than any girl on Plutoria Avenue. Mr.
"Really," said I, "you are getting on swimmingly." "Oh," said the postillion, "I was not a gentleman's servant nine years without learning the ways of gentry, and being able to know gentry when I see them." "And what do you say to all this?" I demanded of Belle.
"Going swimmingly." "So I judged by the bills. How is the lord?" "Now don't be vulgar, Tom. You must keep up your end. Lord Montague is very nice; he is a great favorite here." "Does Evelyn like him?" "Yes, she likes him; she likes him very much." "She didn't show it to me." "No, she is awfully shy. And she is rather afraid of him, the big title and all that.
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