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A young dwarf page entered the hall and announced that the carriage was ready. In another moment Hugo and Elsa found themselves standing in the forest in the moonlight. A carriage stood ready for them drawn by six stags. King Reinhold had dispensed with the ceremony of leave-taking; he hated fusses, and wanted to smoke his pipe in peace.
Holm became so light on his legs one might have thought he was treading on needles; when the derrick swung round over the quay and the chain came rattling down, he ran right back to the granary. Pelle wanted to take him on board, but he would not hear of it. "It looks a bad-tempered monster," he said: "look how it sneezes and fusses!"
"And, then, what is to become of Stoneborough school?" "I hate it," exclaimed Ethel; then seeing Richard shocked, and finding she had spoken more vehemently than she intended "It is not as bad for you among the boys, but, while that committee goes on it is not the least use to try to teach the girls right. Oh! the fusses about the books, and one's way of teaching!
"'I stands thar while the reb fusses away with some pine splinters an' lightwood, strugglin' to inaug'rate a holycaust. He can't make the landin'; them timbers is too green, that a-way.
The first flickering shadows show you the interior of Watts McHurdie's shop, and as your eyes take in the dancing shapes, you discern the parliament in session. Watts is working on a saddle, but his arms and his hands are not what they were in the old days when his saddlery won first prize year after year at the Kansas City Fair. So he puffs and fusses and sighs his way through his morning's work.
"Say, jever notice how Mrs. Kennicott fusses around the house? Other evening when I was coming over here, she'd forgot to pull down the curtain, and I watched her for ten minutes. Jeeze, you'd 'a' died laughing. She was there all alone, and she must 'a' spent five minutes getting a picture straight.
That precise and toothy little sub-deity does not seem extremely enthusiastic over his return. "Well, Mr. Crowe, so you got back? What detained you?" "Police" says Oliver with a faint smile and Mr. Alley laughs dutifully enough though rather in a "here, here, we must get down to business" way. Then he fusses with his pencil a little. "I'm glad you came in, Crowe.
"Matthew is a wonder, Ann, and you've got to come to this dance he is giving Corn-tassel Saturday all for love of you because you asked him to look after her. He is the sweetest thing to her just like old Mrs. Red here, spreads his wings and fusses if any man who isn't a lineal descendant of Sir Galahad comes near her. He's going to be awfully hurt if you don't come."
Whenever they have an inclination to quarrel she jumps between them and wiggles the yellow ear at the giant and the green ear at the dwarf, which fusses them both so that they promise to be good and rush off to get her a saucer of milk." "A green ear and a yellow ear! What a funny looking cat she must be!" exclaimed Belvy. "So she says to herself between purrs," concluded Jack.
"Fights and fusses are not conducive to the cultivation of a scholarly mind," Helen Trent agreed with mock solemnity. "They are not," returned Leila, with a strong Celtic inflection of which she, in her earnestness, was entirely unconscious. Naturally it evoked laughter. Leila's occasional slight lapses into a brogue were invariably amusing to her chums.
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