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"I'm sick and tired of hearing about your Aunt Jane," said Felicity crossly. Peter looked grieved but held his peace. Felicity was very hard on him that spring, but his loyalty never wavered. Everything she said or did was right in Peter's eyes. "It's all very well to be neat and tidy," said Sara Ray, "but I like a little style too."
The sudden entry of Mary Hampton deprived the discussion of its immediate interest. "Some one has mesmerised me," she exclaimed crossly; "I found myself in the game larder, of all places, being fed with sugar by Lord Pabham. I hate being mesmerised, and the doctor has forbidden me to touch sugar."
"No doubt! no doubt!" said she, a little crossly. She added with one of her gushes of naivete, "and I shall be unhappy too if you go and displease mamma." "What could I do? A gang of snobbesses were detracting from somebody. To speak plainly, they were running down the loveliest of her sex. Your mamma told me to keep quiet.
Cutter if he would let her do some scrubbing for a bit of fish, because she hadn't any dinner for her children, and had been disappointed of a day's work. Mr. Cutter was in a hurry and said 'No', rather crossly, so she was going away, looking hungry and sorry, when Mr. Laurence hooked up a big fish with the crooked end of his cane and held it out to her.
"I can't either," said Jeremy crossly. "It would be better perhaps if I read it myself." "It will be all right in a minute," said Mary confidently. "'Was she in a shop? And was that really was it really a ship that was sitting on the counter?" she finished with a run. "A what?" asked Jeremy. "A ship " "A ship! How could it sit on a counter?" he asked. "Oh no, it's a sheep. How silly I am!"
As he had himself forgotten to call for the key at the farm, no one replied. He also wanted to know who had left the front gate open, since a cow had strayed in from the road, and was spoiling the croquet lawn. Then he said rather crossly: "Margaret, you wait in the dry. I'll go down for the key. It isn't a hundred yards. "Mayn't I come too?" "No; I shall be back before I'm gone."
Some one will come and take her away some one very distinguished. She has been promised from the cradle to a fine gentleman." "What nonsense!" said Pelle crossly. "But that's really true! When it rained we used to sit under the gallery in the corner by the dustbin and she used to tell us and it's really true! And, besides, don't you think she's fascinating?
"I thought you were my child now, and anxious for better things than tag," said Miss Inches gravely. Johnnie had to submit, but she pouted, shrugged her shoulders, and looked crossly about her, in a way which Mamma Marion had never seen before, and which annoyed her very much. "Now it is time to go to supper," she announced. "Form yourselves into a procession, children.
At a very little after nine Silverbridge was in the breakfast-room, and there found his father. "I suppose Gerald is not up yet," said the Duke almost crossly. "Oh yes he is, sir. He'll be here directly." "Have you seen him this morning?" "No; I haven't seen him. But I know he'll be here. He said he would, last night." "You speak of it as if it were an undertaking." "No, not that, sir.
"And where was Sir Roger meanwhile?" "Sir Roger was there, too, of course," reply I, still a little crossly, "except once or twice certainly not more than twice he said he did not feel inclined to come, and so we went without him."
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