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The men with us began to grumble at the long delay, and declared their intention of moving forward with the next emigrant train which should come by. But what was our dismay, one morning, to find that both the villains had gone, carrying off the cart, and a considerable amount of our property!
You are not down-hearted because we have had a bit of a venture or two? It's all experience, and you like it as much as I do, even if I do grumble a bit sometimes because it's so dull. Something's sure to turn up before long, and What did you do that for?"
Some of them say they would never have signed our articles if they had known they were going to sail with a dead man; others only grumble; but I'm afraid we shall have some trouble with them all, in case of rough weather, unless the boy is contradicted by you or the other gentleman.
With a new place, every touch makes a difference; and when some of those touches are given by the hand of a gardener, nature begins to help. It was so at our Georgia home. Every bit of time my father or Morgan could find to spare, they were digging, or trimming, or planting, till Sarah would set to and grumble to me because they would not come in to their meals.
As for the passengers, the saintly lot are bad enough. Yet it's only the food and the cabins and the attendance they grumble about. I'm shunted off the worldly lot onto them in future. But at their worst, they'll be a rest-cure! and Lark has the decency not to reduce my screw. It's the worldly lot that's going to make you curse the day you were born."
The night was still and the voices of the contestants sounded clearly into the village, the piping of the smaller being construed into "Colonel Dyer," and the grumble of the bull-frogs into "Elderkin, too." The "frog scare" was a subject of pleasantry directed against Windham for years afterward.
The invaders burned their village, for which the natives threatened retaliation, saying they would burn the houses of the Spanish settlement. Meanwhile the food problem assumed threatening dimensions, and the men became discontented and began to grumble because they were not allowed to take anything from the natives without pay.
Dick, though he had been inclined to grumble when his mystery had been taken out of his hands, who had, of course, been jealous when he saw that the lady had discarded her old hat and put on new ribbons, not for him, but for another, was too conscious of the desolation to which he would be subjected by quarrelling with his friend.
She dragged the particulars from me and no one, much less Ralph Lorimer, could refuse to answer Grace Carrington with a skill that came from practical knowledge of such details, before I even guessed what she wished to arrive at. Then she laughed at my confusion. "You have no need to blush. Starved yourselves and fed the cattle. It was well done. And didn't the new partner grumble?"
People began to grumble about "contraction of the currency." In every country there arose a party which demanded "free money." Demagogues pointed to the brief reign of paper money after the demonetization of gold as a happy period, when the people had enjoyed their rights, and the "money barons" borrowing a term from nineteenth-century history were kept at bay.
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