um-hum-m-m

Updated: June 16, 2025

Your work is ended. They told me at the store about your son loafing on you all these years while you took in washing. But how about the money in the bank? Couldn't you get it?" "Oh, yes, John," she answered simply. "But Sammy took it to Boston to deposit, and was robbed of it." "Um-hum-m-m," grunted Quinbey. "The savings of twenty years at sea!"

Morgan Robertson - The Grain Ship