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"I think it more likely that it was Griffin herself," said Elinor with spirit. "She's such a wild, harum-scarum thing, and she does love to tease." Patricia was silent, weighing this suggestion. They both broke into negation at once as they reached their own front door. "It couldn't be Griffin," said Patricia earnestly. "She was too disgusted with it."
Amy being gone, Laurie was her only refuge, and much as she enjoyed his society, she rather dreaded him just then, for he was an incorrigible tease, and she feared he would coax the secret from her. She was quite right, for the mischief-loving lad no sooner suspected a mystery than he set himself to find it out, and led Jo a trying life of it.
"You will never find it if you stand talking forever." "You won't go away?" "Perhaps not." He looked at her doubtfully, but she would not meet his eye. Then he started on his search, but kept looking back so often that she laughed, and said, "I'm not a chestnut burr." "I'm afraid of you." "Then you had better run away." "Sisters shouldn't tease their brothers." "Well, forgive me this time."
"You're a funny little thing, aren't you?" she said. Anne's eyes were glassed. She shook her head fiercely and spilled tears. Jerrold had come up on to the terrace. Colin trotted after him. They were looking at her. Eliot had raised his head from his book and was looking at her. "It is rotten of you, mater," he said, "to tease that kid." "I'm not teasing her.
"Well, I won't have time to tell you every little thing, only that as Bernard and I grew up together, I did not love him any better. He was almost always kind and good." "Now Dud, you must not say so," said Bernard, blushing. "I did everything to tease you." "You must not interrupt," cried Dudley. "This is my story, remember.
I ought to have asked. But I'm getting an old woman." "We were just arguing whether you were thirty-eight or thirty-nine, auntie," said Edwin. "What a tease he is with his beard!" she archly retorted. "Well, your old aunt is sixty this day." "Sixty!" the nephew and niece repeated together in astonishment. Auntie Hamps nodded.
If any one say this is dangerous doctrine, I answer, 'The law of God is enough for me, and for laws invented by man, I will none of them. They are false, and come all of rebellion. God and not man is our judge. Verily it is not to thwart or tease the poor self Jesus tells us.
"Surely we would not go away without visiting the whispering gallery?" solicitations which troubled the silence and sanctity of the place, and must tease others as it then teased us, who wished to contemplate in quiet this great monument of the national grandeur, which was at that very time beginning to take a station also in the land, as a depository for the dust of her heroes.
"You may tease me as much as you like," said Tom, "if you'll only say you are glad to see me." "Oh, you will be invaluable," replied Elsie; "I was getting bored with watching other people's love-making. Can you row a boat and teach me to play billiards, and be generally nice and useful?" "Just try me, that's all!" said Tom. "Don't be afraid.
She was very fond of making fun and liked very much to tease, and said that I could try and if she saw that I could not do the work, she would scold me and put someone else in my place. After all this that she had said, I accepted the appointment and went over to her bed to see how it was made, and I found that it was very easy work to do.
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