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He was burning with a desire to do more, to drive his fist into the face of this rascal, who grumbled whenever one's back was turned, and had to be driven to every little task. Here was all the servant-worry that embittered his existence dissatisfaction with the fare, cantankerousness in work, threats of leaving when things were at their busiest difficulties without end.
Pennington returned to his stock-market reports, and silence reigned, but presently two hands rested on his shoulders, and a velvet cheek touched his for a moment. "Thank you, Uncle Gerry," said Margaret Elizabeth. Which shows Miss Bentley recovering from a fit of what Uncle Bob calls Cantankerousness; in which a shipwrecked letter is brought to light, and Dr.
But Papa wouldn't let her go out much, and she didn't know any of the people she wanted to know only quite common ones whose husbands kept stores or had other businesses which she didn't consider refined. I'm afraid I was never much comfort to poor Mamma either. That cantankerousness of mine which makes me see how funny people and things are, always came between us, and I expect it always will.
In fact Margaret Elizabeth was suffering from the irritability that so often accompanies convalescence. Cantankerousness was Uncle Bob's word for it, and he defended it with all the eloquence of which he was master, his finger on the page in the dictionary where it was to be found in good and regular standing.
I was feeling all-overish and rather cross myself towards evening, and found Alister's cantankerousness and Dennis O'Moore's chaff almost equally tiresome.
I fancy our love of paradox makes us prone to associate noble-mindedness with cantankerousness at all events, nobody ever called me noble-minded. But such is life." "Then this new situation is a permanent thing for him?" suggested the boundary man. "For Alf? No; I'm sorry to say, it's not." "Why?" "Because Stewart's about sixty, and Alf's somewhere in the neighbourhood of thirty-seven.
He began to drive her, and there wasn't a speck of doubt that Prissy liked him. Then Emmeline just put a stopper on the affair. It was pure cantankerousness in her. Stephen was a good match and nothing could be said against him. But Emmeline was just determined that Prissy shouldn't marry. She couldn't get married herself, and she was sore enough about it.
You let us know when visiting day is there's sure to be a visiting day to a home; and we'll come and see you." Millicent's face grew a little brighter. The Honourable John Ruffin congratulated Pollyooly warmly on her success; then he said: "I trust you were not driven to use the weapon I suggested. Osterley's cantankerousness didn't go so far as that?"
There was no wind not even a catspaw. The season of the southeast trade was drawing to an early close, and the northwest monsoon had not yet begun to blow. "They can't dance worth a damn," said McAllister. I had happened to mention that the Polynesian dances were superior to the Papuan, and this McAllister had denied, for no other reason than his cantankerousness.
I didn't get much riding in Goldfield. I think I'll stop and rest and get acquainted." "You won't get much satisfaction but growls." "That will be all the more fun for me," rejoined Prather. "But don't let me keep you." "No. I must be going on. I've got some things to look after before nightfall," said Bob, while Prather, in a humor proof against any hermit cantankerousness, rode into the yard.
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