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"Then she is as insipid as milk and water as insipid as you are, old Madame Grumpy. And papa he's big and loud-voiced, and red-faced and jolly, I suppose?" "Miss Rose Danton, be a little more respectful, if you want me to answer your questions." "Well, but isn't he? And Mr. Richards who's Mr. Richards?" "I don't know." "Isn't he here?" "Yes, certainly." "Then why don't you know?"
"You could pull me back," said Aleck. "And if you got through safely " cried the middy. "You would tie the other end round you," said Aleck, "ready for me to haul and help you out in turn." "Oh! What's the good of a fellow being grumpy?" cried the middy. "Why, we're enjoying ourselves. This is one big adventurous game. I'm getting to be glad those women took me prisoner.
"I said, 'him. I was answering your friend." Grumpy Weasel made a wry face, as if he did not care to have anybody speak of Mr. Meadow Mouse as a friend of his. And he did not quit the stone wall until he had seen Mr. Meadow Mouse venture forth in safety. "Just by accident I overheard your remarks a few minutes ago," Mr. Owl explained. "I'd like to watch this hole-crawling contest.
I'd looked forward to seeing her again she was always good, was mother." "Well," Johannes drawled, "she was rather grumpy." "Not when I was at home maybe she was ill a long time." "We didn't get on somehow. No, the old man for me, he was always in a good temper." "Does he still work at his old trade?" asked Lars Peter with interest. "No, that's done with long ago. He lives on his pension!"
The wife of the "odious person" was witless and fatuously conceited. Of the two girls of the house one was pious and the other a romp; both were coarse-minded if they may be credited with any mind at all. The rather numerous men of the family were dense and grumpy, or dense and jocose. None in that grubbing lot had enough humanity to leave her alone.
Certainly I could not have two more delightful companions, each so different and yet so entertaining. The Marquis was very aggressive and grumpy; but very amusing. In French one says, "On a le vin triste," or "On a le vin gai." He began by attacking me on the English language.
Taking up the receiver, she said in a grumpy tone, "Ach! What is it? Yes?" And then her face cleared, and she even smiled into the telephone receiver.
But givin' up Number One to the other man gives him a chance to pose a lot, an' mebbe it's got a heap of effect on Number Two, who sort of thinks that if she gets tied up to such a sucker she'll be able to wrap him around her finger. But if he loves Number Two, he'll be mighty grumpy to the next fellow that goes to makin' sheeps eyes at her."
Again the Cat shrieked, "STOP!" But Grumpy ignored the command. A scared mew from a kitten nerved the Cat, and she launched her ultimatum, which ultimatum was herself.
They are great cowards, and think if they can but protect their lives there is nothing else to care for. Unlike the jolly crabs we have just left, the hermits are cross and unsociable." "Oh, keep quiet and go away!" said one of the hermit crabs in a grumpy voice. "No one wants mermaids around here." Then every crab withdrew its head into its shell, and our friends saw them no more.
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