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She was very good all day, and made no fuss about going to bed, though usually she fretted, and wanted to play, and called for water, and plagued poor Nursey in many ways. She got safely into her little nest, and then was in such a hurry to see what was under her pillow that she forgot, and called out crossly, "Do hurry and go away. Don't wait to hang up my clothes, you slow old thing! Go, go!"
The channel, however, was encumbered with asperities, over which the river fretted and foamed with thundering impetuosity. I pondered for a while on these stupendous scenes. They ravished my attention from considerations that related to myself; but this interval was snort, and I began to measure the descent, in order to ascertain the practicability of treading it.
Lower down, flights of rooks circled round the fretted niches, quaint windows, and grotesque gargoyles, while the great steps below swarmed with priests and soldiers, gay strangers and black-robed nuns, children and beggars. For an hour our pilgrims sat and studied the wonderful façade, or walked round the outside, examining the rich carvings that covered every inch of the walls.
Joe obliged him, and thanked him for his expression, but there were things in the past which were not so easily wiped from the memory especially a chafed ring around his left wrist, where the sheriff's iron had galled him when he had fretted against it during the tense moments of those past days. Sam Lucas offered Joe his hand. "No hard feeling, Joe, I hope?" said he.
For better or worse, Miss Mollie, it is evidently ordained that I must stay on at the Court!" The village doctor came to doctor Jack Melland's damaged ankle, and the patient fumed and fretted beneath his old-fashioned treatment. "Bandaging me and laying me up by the heels for weeks at a time; it's folly!" he declared angrily. "The man is twenty years behind the times.
And she asked him how much he "wanted" to pay! It was only a form of speech, but it grated on him. "I haven't time to figure it out," he fretted. "I get twenty-five dollars a week darling. That's a hundred a month dear." His pet names came afterward, mere trailers.
And there, where Kings and Princes had held audience watched by their womenfolk through fretted screens was neither roof nor walls; only a group of marble pillars, as it were assembled in ghostly conference. The stark silence and emptiness not of yesterday, but of centuries smote him with a personal pang. From end to end of the rock it brooded; a haunting presence, tutelary goddess of Chitor.
She did not speak to him again, but she let him hold her hand because she thought she ought to and because she was sorry. The next morning the rain was pouring. The train rolled out without picturesque circumstance, the men cursing, the oxen, with great heads swinging under the yokes, plodding doggedly through lakes fretted with the downpour.
Ron had worked, fretted, and worried of late, and his health itself might break down under the strain, for his constitution was not strong. During one long, anxious year there had been fear of lung trouble, and mental agitation of any kind told quickly upon him.
On the contrary, the younger Beatrice, while absent, was the dear little granddaughter, the Queen of Bees, the cleverest of creatures; and while present, it has already been shown how constantly the two tempers fretted each other, or had once done so, though now, so careful had Busy Bee lately been, there had been only one collision between them for the last ten days, and that was caused by her strenuous attempts to convince grandmamma that Fred was not yet fit for boiled chicken and calves' foot jelly.
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