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Updated: June 2, 2025
I was rather surprised to find such an old man in command, for he was gray and stooped, but he surveyed me over his glasses with kindly eyes, although I knew he was being harassed with difficulties in getting routine established on board the Kut Sang, for she had been in dry-dock and everything seemed topsyturvy. "Glad to meet ye, Mr. Trenholm," he said. "I'm up to my scuppers with business.
I do not know how many days or weeks passed by: I was in a different world all that time. How can I describe it to you? Well, it was a world of chaos. It was all jumbled together: father, mother, military service, ikons, lashes, lambs slaughtered, Peter, bullets, etc., etc. It was all in a jumble, all topsyturvy. And in the midst of that chaos I felt as if I were a thing apart from myself.
"To-morrow, and the next day, and the next, and then it will all be over," said Marjorie pensively. "I honestly haven't had time to think about it, this last week," said Allie. "We've been so topsyturvy and busy that I haven't thought of anything but packing and the wedding."
Like the dove from the ark, a man finds no place where he can rest the sole of his foot. Twice a year, regularly, have I to pass through this trying ordeal, willy-nilly, as it is said, in some strange language. To rebel is useless. To grumble of no avail. Up come the carpets, topsyturvy goes the furniture, and swash! goes the water from garret to cellar.
That was the very tar of shame. Peter knew that in the moral categories of Niggertown Cissie would suffer more from such a rebuff than if she had lied or committed theft and adultery every day in the calendar. She had been refused marriage. All the folk-ways of Niggertown were utterly topsyturvy. It was a crazy-house filled with the most grotesque moral measures.
The whole world is topsyturvy, and you don't think there is a smile in your make-up, as that dear American man who carried you here would say." Helen recovered her senses with exceeding rapidity. Mrs. de la Vere was already leading her to the door. "What! Mr. Spencer did he " "He did. Come, now.
This little lecher was always groping his nurses and governesses, upside down, arsiversy, topsyturvy, harri bourriquet, with a Yacco haick, hyck gio! handling them very rudely in jumbling and tumbling them to keep them going; for he had already begun to exercise the tools, and put his codpiece in practice.
I smiled to myself, for it was my first introduction to the romantic part that lights and the lack o' lights is playing in this great World War. Then my friend continued his observations as we stood there on the aft deck watching the white waves break, glorious with phosphorescence. He said: "What a topsyturvy world it is.
"Alone and unaided," she quoted, smiling mockingly up into his face. "Absolutely alone and entirely unaided," said Billy Magee. "I'll swear to that in court." Mrs. Norton panted up to them. "Hello, dearie!" she cried. "Thank heaven you're safe. Have you been up to the house? How's Sadie getting along? I just know everything is topsyturvy." "Not at all," replied Miss Rhodes.
Peter was afraid of her as of the plague, especially in his sober hours. All her power lay in her eyes. When that strong man he who had the whole village in the palm of his hand felt her eye fixed on him, his strength left him. It seemed as if some devil were ready to jump out of that eye and turn the house topsyturvy.
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