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"Here! But look here!" Edwin protested. "I've just fixed you up " The old man ignored him, and one of those unnaturally white hands stretched forth to the night-table, which was on the side of the bed opposite to Edwin. Darius's gold watch and chain lay on the night-table. "I've wound it up! I've wound it up!" said Edwin, a little crossly. "What are you worrying at?"
For such a pretty maid as 'tis, this is a fine chance!" Tess smiled crossly. "I hope it is a chance for earning money. It is no other kind of chance. You had better say nothing of that silly sort about parish." Mrs Durbeyfield did not promise. She was not quite sure that she did not feel proud enough, after the visitor's remarks, to say a good deal.
"I'm going to stop wondering about it," exclaimed Felicity crossly, aggravated by the amused smile with which the Story Girl was listening to the various speculations. "I think Sara is just as mean as mean when she won't tell us." "I can't," repeated the Story Girl patiently. "You said one time you had an idea who 'Alice' was," I said. "Was your idea anything like the truth?"
His heart fell down with a dull thud. The third! This was the day of the trial! It couldn't be! He read again. Was it really the day of the trial? The paper that had the court program had been in his trousers pocket. He must have it at once. Perhaps he had made a mistake. Oh, gee! What it was to be helpless! Why, he was weaker than Aunt Saxon! He called the nurse crossly.
"Dud-don't remember," denied Racey. "Think," urged Luke Tweezy. "Am thu-thinkin'," Racey said, crossly. "What you wanna know for?" "I don't like to have folks talkin' so loose and free about me," was the Tweezy explanation. "Duh-hic-quite right," hiccuped Racey Dawson. "An' you are, too, y'old catawampus. You a friend o' mim-mine, Lul-luke?"
'And who was it gave Jim Wigson a box on the ears last fifth of November, in the lane just by the Dye-works, eh, Miss Louie? and danced with young Redway at the Upper Mill dance, New Year's Day? and had words with Mr. James at the office about her last "cut," a fortnight ago eh, Louie? 'What ever do you mean? she said, half crossly, her colour rising. 'You've been spying on me.
"Well, they are very silly, then!" she said, almost crossly. And as the thought expanded, she added, "But I don't see how anyone COULD! They must have thought my letting them help me out with the Flower Show and begging for the Old Paloma girls was a nice piece of affectation!
"You know," replied Pelle crossly. "She just lay there and looked at me as though she was thinking: 'That's what he looks like and he's come a long way here. I could see by her eyes that you had spoken of me and that she knew about all my swinishness." Sort nodded. "Then she held out her hand to me. How like she is to one of God's angels already I thought but it's a pity in one who's so young.
"In one way you can," said Flora. "When you want to come, just sit down and be as quiet as possible, and shut your eyes and think very hard about it. You can see everything you have seen to-day, if you try." "Then I shall be sure to try," Jem answered. She was going to ask some other question, but Baby stopped her. "Oh! I'm falling awake," she whimpered, crossly, rubbing her eyes.
'Choop! said the Maharajah crossly. You might almost guess that 'Choop' meant 'Be quiet! 'But it was an offence, he continued. 'Protector of the poor, I meant no harm. 'That is true talk. And you shall receive no harm. But you must leave the boy with me. I want him to play games with my son, to amuse my son.
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