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'More like they would find too much earnest in the midst of their sham? returned Geordie. 'You had best tell your English Marquis, as he calls himself, that he had better not trust a lance in a Scotsman hand, if he wouldna have all the shams that fret me beyond my patience about their ears.
"Thou art made to weight, John, more than order. How much dost thou tip the scales to?" "Only twelvescore pounds, my lord, when I be in wrestling trim. And sure I must have lost weight here, fretting so long in London." "Ha, ha! Much fret is there in thee! Hath His Majesty seen thee?" "Yes, my lord, twice or even thrice; and he made some jest concerning me." "A very bad one, I doubt not.
We need a lot of money now, too, don't we?" "A whole lot," said Gilfoyle, who was beginning to fret over the probable cost of the breakfast. It cost more than he expected as he expected. But he was in for it, and he trusted that the Lord would provide.
And I became quick of temper too, for my nerves seemed all of a fret, and when my mother would ask me what ailed me, or my father would speak of my turning my hand to work, I would break into such sharp bitter answers as I have often grieved over since.
"You will, and so will Miss Briggs. I am not so certain about the others." "When you get to know us better, Mr. Lang, you will find that, though some of us complain and fret, all are true blue." "Humph! Beckon I know something about that myself. What I saw to- day shows me that I don't have to worry about you and Miss Briggs.
Jack had been glad to notice that the unknown had used pure English in addressing him. In a moment he asked: "Who are you?" "A friendless American boy who has been hunted down like a dog because " "Fret Offut!" broke in Jack recognizing the other's voice. "Jack North!" gasped the fugitive "You have betrayed me, Jack!" "Not a bit of that. I am here on account of you."
Ochterlony could not have been expecting one, and it is not at all likely that he desired one certainly not until Clive and Hastings should be supplied. Every day Clive and Hastings lean on the battlements of heaven and look down and wonder which of the two the monument is for; and they fret and worry because they cannot find out, and so the peace of heaven is spoiled for them and lost.
"Wait till you meet the bush-raiders," said Jack. "I reckon I can take any medicine that you can," was the answer, and the boy engineer realized that he had filled Fret Offut's place with a companion of altogether different make-up.
"It is easier to come," I answered irritably, "than to know that you sit here making yourself miserable because I don't." "Have I ever fretted you about coming, Esmerald? I did not know it." "It would be easier if you did fret!" I cried crossly. "I'd rather you'd say a thing than look it. Any man would."
"If I could only see how it went " she would fret, "I can't see which one of them it is." For in the back of the Garden book were many folded charts and maps, so big that they stretched out enormously over the counterpane of the bed.
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