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I can generally get the better of myself, but sometimes I can't. It always makes me so angry. I do hope you don't think I am such an awful coward, because I am not." "I think most girls whom I have known would have made much more fuss than you did," said James. "You never screamed." "I never did scream in my life," said the girl. "I don't think I could. I don't know how.
Agnes with vast self-possession took Mrs. Thornburgh in hand. She pointed out firmly that nothing would be so likely to make Catherine impracticable as fuss. 'In vain is the net spread, etc. She preached from the text with a worldly wisdom which quickly crushed Mrs. Thornburgh. 'Well, what am I to do, my dears? she said at last helplessly. 'Look at the weather!
As to the settlements that people talked of, she protested indignantly that she was not so mean as to fancy her future husband a thief, and that to tie up her money in all sorts of ways would be to imply as much. And then, as it was only a year since poor dear Tom's death, she had been anxious to marry without fuss or parade.
"This is only a phase," he said quietly. "She will fall asleep presently. You can get her a cup of tea if you can do it without making a fuss." Biddy turned from the bed. That glimpse of Isabel's face had been enough. She had no further thought of consequences.
There was some fighting, I understand, but they got out finally. Now they've said they're going to smash us." He grinned. Anketam said: "What's so funny?" "Oh, they won't do anything," said Russat. "They fume and fuss a lot, but they won't do anything." "I hope not," said Anketam. He finished the last of his spiked tea, and Memi poured him another one.
But Eleanor would have none of all this "pleasant fuss," as Mary Brooks called it. Suddenly and most inexplicably she reverted to her sarcastic, ungracious manner of the year before. She either ignored the pretty speeches that people made to her, or received them with a stare and a haughty "I really don't know what you mean," which fairly frightened her admirers into silence.
For a moment the man who can make music like no one else on earth listened to the girl and her pet. Then he sighed and said: "Oh, if I could only whistle!" Those who know Mr. Toscanini intimately find in those six simple words the key to his character. He is, they say, the most modest man who ever lived, a man sincerely at a loss to understand the endless fuss that is made about him.
"My Dear, I wish I could send you some of my good times. As I can't, I send you much love, and I hope you will try and be patient as I am going to, for it was our fault, and we must not make a fuss now. Ain't mothers sweet? Mine is coming over to-morrow to see you and tell me how you are. This round thing is a kiss for good-night. "Your Jack" "Isn't that spoony?
He did not know why, for at that moment a piece of green wood had sent a jet of hot, steamy smoke in his eyes, which gave him intense pain, and set him rubbing the smarting places in a way which made them worse. "Here, don't make such a fuss over a bit o' smoke," said Bob. "You'll soon get used to that. Mind, that one's tail's burning!"
"What is the use of that?" thought Rikki-tikki. "I have settled it all;" and then Teddy's mother picked him up from the dust and hugged him, crying that he had saved Teddy from death, and Teddy's father said that he was a providence, and Teddy looked on with big scared eyes. Rikki-tikki was rather amused at all the fuss, which, of course, he did not understand.
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