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"An' potaters b'iled all over this good kitchen stove! I declare, this room's a real hog's nest, an' I left it as neat as wax!" Perhaps no man was ever more amazed than this invader. He stood staring at her in silence. "Can't you shet the door!" she inquired, fractiously, beginning to untie her cloud. "An' put a stick o' wood in the stove? If I don't git het through, I shall ketch my death!"
And it seemed as though the dear, obedient girl had come at his bidding, for, as he turned back into the room again, Melissa was standing in the open door. After the pretty Greek greeting, "Joy be with you," which she faintly answered, he asked her, as fractiously as though he had spent hours of anxiety, where she had been so long.
She rose up and sat down on the sofa facing him. The hectic of her cheeks had turned to scarlet. "You do love her! You care for her more than you care for me. Can you deny it?" "What part of my conduct has ever told you so?" "I don't care for conduct," she fractiously retorted, "I remember what papa said, and that's enough. He said he saw how it was in the old days that you loved her.
"What should they do at Heartburg?" she fractiously asked. "They went over yesterday to remain until to-day, I hear." Subsiding into silence, she lay quite still, save for her panting breath, holding Lionel's hand as he bent over her. Some noise in the corridor outside attracted her attention, and she signed to him to open the door. "Perhaps it is Dr. Hayes," she murmured. "He is better than Jan."
Write to him now, will you, an' you'll catch the evenin' mail!" Henry got writing materials and wrote the letter in his father's room. "Will that do?" he said, passing it to Mr. Quinn for inspection. "That'll do fine," Mr. Quinn replied, when he had finished reading it. "Matier'll take it to the letterbox!" "I don't know what the world's comin' to," he went on, a little fractiously.
And when, presently, he turned on his side and hid his face in the pillow and groaned, she had small pity to spare for him. "Are you not well?" she asked. "Can't you be seeing?" he answered fractiously; but for very shame he could not face her eyes. "Cannot you be seeing I am not fit to get up, let alone be meeting that devil? See how my hand shakes!" "What is to be done, then?"
The dogs thus personally conducted are of many varieties; but they are one in fatness, in pampered, diseased vileness of temper, in insolent, snarling capriciousness of behaviour. They tug at the leash fractiously, they make leisurely nasal inventory of every door step, railing, and post.
"I've been planning them," admitted Hepatica. "Mr. Hodgson's readings were entirely new to me; were they to you? I had never heard of the authors." "Few people can have heard of them, I think. Several were original." "Indeed!" "Would you mind taking off your society manner?" requested Hepatica, a trifle fractiously. "I'm a little tired of seeing you wear it so incessantly."
"For Art's sake, son," he said, fractiously, "don't spend any more money for paint. It isn't a picture at all. It's a gun. You hold up the state with it, if you like, and get your two thousand, but don't get in front of any more canvas. Live under it. Buy a couple of hundred ponies with the money I'm told they're that cheap and ride, ride, ride. Fill your lungs and eat and sleep and be happy.
And it seemed as though the dear, obedient girl had come at his bidding, for, as he turned back into the room again, Melissa was standing in the open door. After the pretty Greek greeting, "Joy be with you," which she faintly answered, he asked her, as fractiously as though he had spent hours of anxiety, where she had been so long.
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