I think maybe it was the justification he used for that and how he treated my mum for having what he thought was an affair.
“mum was living in fear as well we were trapped,” Cumming tells me.
The family was "happy, but my parents were broke, my mum made my clothes, my dad said we moved when the rent was due," he told me.
He even took a few wobbly first steps (with a little assistance from his mum, of course).
Suddenly she is cast adrift without the bank of mum and dad.
You were the little clerk who sat so mum in the corner, and then cried fy on the gleeman.
Ye haven't; then I very much doubt if ye'll see him this day, mum.
"I'm afraid as how the house was too quiet for Mr. Grierson, mum," she wound up.
If you please, mum, it's below the waist; I think I can manage with the dummy.
And if you should chance to meet this party again, remember, mum's the word.'
"be silent," 1560s, from Middle English mum, mom (late 14c.), inarticulate closed-mouth sound, indicative of unwillingness or inability to speak. As an adjective meaning "secret" from 1520s. Phrase mum's the word is first recorded 1704.
abbreviation of chrysanthemum, first attested 1915 in the jargon of gardeners.
