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"I hope you won't misunderstand me, Nanni," he said, apologetically. "I'm immensely proud of you; it isn't that. But, well, it's not my way to talk about things. I suppose it's crochety, but somehow, I like to keep things separate, you know. If you talk about a thing it usually spoils it."
Then there was the case of Pie-a-Pot, who from the earliest days of treaty-making was crochety and rather defiantly opposed to the incoming of anything or anybody that would interfere with his nomadic habits and general inclination to please himself.
"Fairy godmothers at least, in all the fairy tales I ever read are somewhat apt to be queer, crochety people, much more agreeable when wrapped up in mystery than when met face to face." "I'm convinced that mine is the very opposite, and that the better I became acquainted with her, the more charming a personage I should find her," said Sylvia gaily. Mrs.
This, at least, was the housekeeper’s point of view, a crochety one, be it said, not shared by the brothers Benton, whose hospitality was as genuine as it was primitive. To this same difficult lady the infants, who were too tender in years to be separated from their mothers, were as productive of anxiety as their elders.
To the world they must present an unbroken front, an unshaken and unshakable faith. A new attitude, and a strange one, for grumbling, crochety, gouty-souled England. A people who had for centuries insisted not only on its rights but on its privileges was now giving as freely as ever it had demanded.
We're just as good friends as ever. I'm ashamed of myself for having felt so put out. Forget anything I said that didn't seem quite kind. He's all right. It's me that's crochety.... Isn't that picture far enough along for you to let me see it?" "No, Mrs. Hawthorne." "Will you let me see it when it's far enough along?" "No." "I think you're real mean. How much longer will it take to finish it?"
Dulcie then spoke of her Aunt Hannah, who had been particularly amusing and crochety of late, but added that she was really such a "dear" at heart that people all loved her when they came to know her well. "My dear," she wrote, "Aunt Hannah has surpassed herself lately. You know what vigorous likes and dislikes she takes, all of a sudden?
He's a crochety old gent, you know, and he has notions about things. He might take the notion that it is not fitting or pleasant or convenient to go. He might think oh, he might think anything." "Yes, Jimmy, I know something about the peppery old gent. But you stand pretty strong with him. See if you can persuade him. I'm going to take it for granted that he'll come.
Diana intercepted a swift glance pass between him and Adrienne. "Yes," said the latter quickly. "I went to rehearse my song in 'The Grey Gown' with him. He was rather crochety that day," she added, smiling. Diana smiled in sympathy. "Well, if he was crochety with you, Miss de Gervais," she observed, "you can perhaps imagine what he was like to me!" "Was he so very bad?" asked Adrienne, laughing.
"Don't let me hear of either of you annoying Miss Putnam in any way," he said sternly. "I know how children can sometimes, without meaning it, bother an elderly and crochety person. Miss Putnam has every right to keep her house and yard for herself, and if she is 'cross, as you call it, that is her affair, too. My advice to you youngsters is to stay away from the Collins house."
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