"My only worth will be in always remembering to do the thing that pleases you; and yet, although I don't really like Adie, it has a more home-like, more whisperable sound than Adrian. Adrian is a grand, heroic sort of a name, yet what a beautiful name it is.
She was always—not exactly proud like, but what I calls gumptious.” “I never heard that word before,” said the Parson, laying down his knife and fork. “Bumptious, indeed, though I believe it is not in the dictionary, has crept into familiar parlance, especially amongst young folks at school and college.” “Bumptious is bumptious, and gumptious is gumptious,” said the landlord, delighted to puzzle a parson. “Now, the town beadle is bumptious, and Mrs. Avenel is gumptious.” “She is a very respectable woman,” said Mr. Dale, somewhat rebukingly. . “In course, sir; all gumptious folks are; they value themselves on their respectability, and looks down on their neighbours.” PARSON (still, philologically occupied):-Gumptious—gumptious. I think I remember the substantive at school—not that my master taught it to me. “Gumption,”—it means cleverness. LANDLORD (doggedly).-There's gumption and gumptious! Gumption is knowing; but when I say that sum un is gumptious, I meanthough that’s more vulgar like—sum un who does not think small beer of hisself You take me, sir?”
I describe it as a stunt that went horribly right because it was designed to fail, in the sense that Chas was going to be the comic relief, to be deployed when we got stopped.
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