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"Did you really have a feeling?" "A feeling? No, goosey; of course I didn't. Why do you ask?" Dorothy pinched her arm to hush her, and nodded significantly at Uncle Jerry, who was just ahead of them with Betty and Ruth. Charlotte looked surprised and then scornful. "I hate to see any one getting up a romance out of nothing," she whispered almost crossly.
And I had mother." The tears would come into his eyes. The hired men were scattered over the extensive alkali tract, and were pounding the clods. Claude chose to work near a man called Neil. The boy liked Neil better than the other men, because he did not speak crossly. Claude sorrowfully pounded the alkali clods. How tiresome the work was, and how uncomfortably warm the sun!
I think you will find Madame Riano at the palace, and may resume your journey to-morrow." "Then," cried Francezka, rather crossly, "the only real danger seems to be from the toads in the tunnel! Come, Monsieur Cheverny, let us begin our promenade."
He had been strictly desired to do this by Mrs Proudie, and had not dared to disobey her injunctions, thinking, however, himself, that his doing so was inexpedient. "I have got nothing to say to you about it; not a word," said the bishop crossly. "I thought that perhaps you might like to see me before I started," pleaded Mr Thumble very humbly.
"Who said she was?" snapped the Dodo, crossly; "she is as likely to be anybody's son as a robin is to be like a waterbut, and besides, I didn't say she was; I said, if she was, you know." "Well, let's work it out," said the Eterædarium, spreading out his fingers.
'Well, who are you? snapped Slivers, crossly, after waiting a reasonable time for an answer and getting none. 'I'm his landlady, retorted the other, with a defiant snort. 'Matilda Cheedle is my name, and I don't care who knows it. 'It's not a pretty name, snarled Slivers, prodding the ground with his wooden leg, as he always did when angry. 'Neither are you.
"I s'pose you've got to enforce the rule against passengers riding on the platform, too, even if we are stuck in a snowdrift?" Bess said a little crossly. They had come out into the vestibule, and she was cold. The conductor broke into open laughter at this; but Nan was serious. "Suppose anything happens to the poor little fellow?" she fumed. "He may get cold. And he certainly will starve."
Parker, joyously; "I have brought you along capitally, have not I? but I am afraid we are a little late eh, Mrs. Huntley? I hope we have not kept you long." "Is it late?" she replies, with a smile and a fine hypocrisy for she looks hungry "I did not know; we have been quite happy!" Roger has risen, and is coming to help me down, but I say, crossly, "Do not, please; Algy manages best!"
The leech's pretty Greek greeting "Rejoice!" sounded rather like "May you choke!" as he flung aside his upper garment; and to the old man's answer and anxious exclamation: "How badly you look, Philip!" he answered crossly: "Like a man who deserves a kick rather than a welcome; a booby who has submitted to have his nose pulled; a cur who has licked the hand of the lout who has thrashed him!"
Angry at the merriment which this created, the boy hastily grabbed the food, but his mother interfered. "Don't be so greedy, uak, 'urchin. Remember Those Above," she said; and Shyuote, imitating the example of Okoya, crossly muttered a prayer, and scattered crumbs before him. Then only, both fell to eating.
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