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Kouroshh Posted 10 years ago
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What does '' fairly clumsy pumping'' mean in the sentence below

Hardin reflected that it didn't require a great deal of acumen to tell that his eminence was indulging in a bit of fairly clumsy pumping. He replied casually, "No – nor nobility."
  

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kouroshh What does '' fairly clumsy pumping'' mean in the sentence below Guessing: "His eminence" was asking a lot of questions to extract information from Hardin (pumping him), but he didn't want Hardin to realize that he was doing that. However, he did it so obviously (He was clumsy about it) that Hardin noticed immediately. CJ

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  • kouroshh What does '' fairly clumsy pumping'' mean in the sentence below Guessing: "His eminence" was asking a lot of questions to extract information from Hardin (pumping him), but he didn't want Hardin to realize that he was doing that.
  • However, he did it so obviously (He was clumsy about it) that Hardin noticed immediately.
  • CJ
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kouroshh What does '' fairly clumsy pumping'' mean in the sentence below
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"His eminence" was asking a lot of questions to extract information from Hardin (pumping him), but he didn't want Hardin to realize that he was doing that. However, he did it so obviously (He was clumsy about it) that Hardin noticed immediately.

CJ
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