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So long as he was silent he was a source of inspiration that is to say, her feeling for him was inspiring; but when she tried to get anything out of him, they generally squabbled. Beth lived her own life at this time almost entirely. Since that startling threat of rebellion, her mother had been afraid to beat her lest she should strike back; scolding only made her voluble, and Mrs.
Wasted and fallen away, poor dear, I daresay! I had not the courage to disillusion the sick man; and, indeed, why should he know that his Dasha was now broader than she was long, and that she was living under the protection of some merchants, the brothers Kondatchkov, that she used powder and paint, and was for ever swearing and scolding?
Her husband is softened by the additional cleanliness and peace of his home. He does not now occasionally take refuge in a public-house, to get out of the way of noisy children, an unswept hearth, and a scolding wife. Once when Tom was ill for a day or two, his uncle missed the accustomed grace, and began to say it himself.
"You're absolutely unprepared!" said Miss Mitchell scathingly. "A nice example for a monitress to set to the rest of the form! Come to the study at eleven, and report yourself! I'm astonished at you, Merle!" A very depressed and humiliated monitress entered the study at 'interval' to receive her scolding. "I can't understand you! You have been doing so well.
Inside the cart circle, men were shouting last orders to women, squaws scolding half-naked urchins, that scampered in the way, and the whole encampment setting up a din that might have scared any buffalo herd into endless flight. Grant gave the word. Pierre hoisted the flag, and the camp turmoil was left behind.
Lincoln's fears, Sally Ann made no advances whatever towards an intimate acquaintance, and frequently days and even weeks would elapse without her ever seeing her mistress, who spent nearly all her time in her chamber, musing upon her past greatness, and scolding Jenny, because she was not more exclusive. While the family were making arrangements to move from Glenwood to Chicopee.
When I came to my senses I was lying in bed, surrounded by all the appurtenances of a dying person. The first thing I heard was Mr. Tower scolding the men who put me on the horse, and threatening them with a law-suit for presuming to do such a thing without his permission. Mr. Tower considered himself holden to Capt.
There are those who could sleep. But not everybody could sleep. Well and heartily do I remember the moment when another friend of mine, in the midst of an interminable scolding that was being given by a nasal-voiced conductor to a passenger just before the dawn, exposed his head and remarked: "Has it occurred to you that this is a sleeping-car?"
"I'm thirsty," said Röse, "and now we can't expect to get any supper at the Sperbers' we'll be lucky if we get in without a scolding." Beate had an idea: "Let's go into the cow-stable and drink fresh milk." Every one was agreeable. "But we shall have to be very quiet, because the men sleep quite near." So they stole cautiously into the stable, Beate carrying the lantern.
Father made you take some physic?" "Yes, pills. Verbum nasticusis, and bully draught after." "What! Has he been scolding you?" "Scolding me! He never does anything else. I sha'n't stand it much longer. I shall run off to sea and be a cabin-boy." "Hi, hi, hi!" "What are you laughing at?" snapped Bob, turning sharply upon old Teggley. "At you, Mars Bob Chowne, going for a cabin-boy." Whop!
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