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Some of it got into the last cord we bought, an' one night it snapped out, an' most burnt up mother's nightgown an' cap while I was warmin' 'em. We had a real time of it. She scolded me, an' then she laughed, an' I laughed an' so, when I see a stick or two o' beech, to-day, I kind o' picked it out a-purpose." John's horse stamped impatiently from the gate, and John, too, knew it was time to go.
I lead a sedentary life. I don't take enough exercise. For three days I hadn't ..." "For goodness sake, hold your tongue," she interrupted, tears of annoyance in her eyes. His face fell, and he pouted his lips like a scolded child. He gave me a look of appeal, so that I might put things right, but, unable to control myself, I shook with helpless laughter.
Many a faithful dog has been scolded aye, and maybe struck, by his maister when he had quicker ears than the foolish man, and was giving warning of danger. "Ye think me, my lord, a silly and cankered auld haveril, and that my head is full of prejudices and fancies. Would to God that I were wrong.
But there seemed to be no more chance of Billy getting hold of the monkey than of the nuts, and the more he scolded and abused the curious animal the more loudly it sputtered at him, and seemed to expostulate and scold by turns. "There, it's of no good," said the boatswain; "give it up, my lad."
Mellows. "I only opened it to save you the trouble. Of course, I knew all along that it was Teddy Mahr I guessed why not? Really, Dorothy, you misinterpret my interest in you, really, you do." Dorothy laughed. "Now, now," she scolded, "don't say that. Here, I'll divide with you."
You must do the host a little, you know. You ought to have taken his hat and coaxed him into stopping, instead of letting him be swamped by screaming women." Tibby sighed, and drew a long strand of hair over his forehead. "Oh, it's no good looking superior. I mean what I say." "Leave Tibby alone!" said Margaret, who could not bear her brother to be scolded.
With your gifts you could have given to the world something better than a mere psychological debauch!" She laughed softly, but genuinely. "I adore sincerity," she exclaimed, "and it is so many years since I was actually scolded. A 'psychological debauch' is delightful. But I cannot help my views, can I? My experiences were made for me! I became the creature of circumstances.
What other children hear without an effort he has to strain every nerve to catch. He misunderstands the question that is asked of him, makes an absurd answer, and is either scolded or laughed at. It isn't long before he falls into the attitude: "Well, I can't get it right, anyhow, no matter how I try, so I don't care."
Jem plumped himself indignantly down, and began his. This was a new annoyance. Sally had scolded times out of number, and found fault with him for being so late, but this was the first time that she had ever begun a meal without his being present, and he felt bitterly hurt. "As if I could help it," he said, half aloud. "A man has his work to do, and he must do it."
This arose partly from a belief that the quarrel was final, and that, therefore, there would be no danger in aggravating Violet by this expression of pity, partly from a feeling that it would be better that her niece should marry Lord Chiltern than that she should not marry at all, and partly, perhaps, from the general principle that, as she thought it right to scold her niece on all occasions, this might be best done by taking an opposite view of all questions to that taken by the niece to be scolded.
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