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Those persons who did not scold did what was worse and harder to bear; for they ridiculed her, and mocked at her, and ceased neither day nor night from their witticisms and jeerings and laughter.
And then the men were there, and they saw David laughing. "Hello," said one of the men. "What's so funny?" "I was laughing at the squirrels," David said; "they make their tails go." "Yes," said the man, "I hear them, and I see some of them. How they do scold! But we wouldn't hurt them." He put his cans down, and he leaned his pole against a tree, and he stood the ladder against the tree.
It is possible for one and the same man to fluctuate between the two attitudes, to alternate between them possible, though inconsistent. The child, or even that larger child, the man, may beg and scold, almost in the same breath. The savage, as is well known, will treat his fetish in the same inconsequential way.
As soon as he carried him out of the room where the guests were he began to kiss him, and he repeated: "Oh, my dearest! Oh, my dearest!" And he said to mamma, who walked behind him: "Just think of the boy!" Mamma said: "That is all due to your whist. You were scolding each other so, that the child was frightened." Father began to laugh, and answered: "Yes, he does scold harshly.
At first, this looked like rough treatment for a lovely girl, thus to be strapped to a brawny big fellow; but after a while, the girls thought it was great fun to be married and each one to have a man to caress, and fondle, and scold, and look for, and boss around; for each wife, inside of her own hut was quite able to rule her husband.
Dixon cried after church: "Oh, Merivale, what a beautiful sermon! How earnest you were. I hope it will do good." Mr. Dixon swallowed his port with great decorum, but his wife fuddled herself every evening with cheap sherry. She was quite unaware of the fact, and sometimes wondered in a dim way why she always had to scold the children after dinner.
The last memory of her he takes away with him is of a little slender figure standing at the window, with her hands clasped behind her back. She does not look back at him. "Well?" says Margaret, coming into the room half an hour later. "Why, what a little snowflake you are! Come up to the fire and warm those white cheeks. Was it Maurice made you look like that? I shall scold him.
Peeps into their interiors reveal dirty, poorly furnished rooms, and large families, pigging squalidly together at meal times, while unkempt men and slatternly women lean from open windows, and scold in French, or chatter with crowds of ragged and bare-legged children, playing in the gutters.
Simms couldn't plaster the nymph together somehow, he was always so ready to do things for her. "Well," said her father, after a moment's thought, in which he had been struggling with a sense of disappointment at the destruction of his statue, that would have made a less kind-hearted man scold. "Well, it can't be helped; and as to the climbing trees, I suppose your mother knows best.
They would scold you; they would tell you that this young man is of a rich and distinguished family; that his mother has great ambitions for him; that you have only your old black dress and beautiful eyes, and to-morrow, when you return to the Louvre, Madame Gerard will establish herself near your easel and discourage the young gallant.
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