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Oh, what will she say when she finds out dear little Aunt Sally? I couldn't bear to have her angry with me." The next day Willard came up from the harbour and took Miss Sally down to see Eden. Eden was a tiny, cornery, gabled grey house just across the road and down a long, twisted windy lane, skirting the edge of a beech wood.
I cannot honestly say we ever wished her back; though we certainly did miss her missed many a joke at her oddities, many a laugh at her cornery ways. It takes all sorts, as the saying goes, to make a world. Possibly enough if only we perfect folk were left in it we would find it uncomfortably monotonous. As for Amy, I believe she really regretted her.
"We expect very shortly very shortly indeed," explained Peter Hope, "to turn the corner." "Ah! that 'corner," sympathised Miss Ramsbotham. "I confess," smiled Peter Hope, "it doesn't seem to be exactly a right- angled corner. One reaches it as one thinks. But it takes some getting round what I should describe as a cornery corner."
Then I saw the stone we had put over the rope rolling off the rock, joggled off by the boat's pulling harder when a wave lifted it. The stone rolled in cornery bounces, with a dull noise, and the rope slipped after it slowly. I thought Jerry would be in time. I couldn't believe that I really saw the rope floating its whole length on the water, dry at first, then darkening wetly. "Hang on, Chris!"
I think I must have been almost asleep, because I know the real rain surprised me, like something I'd forgotten, and a very sharp, cornery rock was poking into my back. It was then that Greg said: "Want Simpson." That frightened me more than anything almost, for Simpson was a sort of stuffed flannel duck-thing that he'd had when he was very little, and he hadn't thought of it for years.
And he did, and by its weird and unscrutatious light looked down into the precipice. Its bottom transpired to be not much more than six feet below, so Oswald turned the other end of himself first, hung by his hands, and dropped with fearless promptness, uninjured, in another cellar. He then helped Denny down. The cornery thing Denny happened to fall on could not have hurt him so much as he said.
In his brooding imaginativeness he was like the most youthful of lovers, seeing his treasure menaced on every hand by the hazards of life. He warned Karen against cliff-edges; he warned her, now that motors were every day becoming more common, against their sudden eruption in "cornery" lanes; he begged her repeatedly to keep safe and sound until he could himself take care of her.
Not only hyacinths and tulips and such well-known ones in endless sizes and varieties, but little roots with six and seven syllable names she had never heard before, and big roots, too, and strange cornery roots, a never-ending quantity. Mijnheer told her they were not yet all in; many were in the ground and had still to be lifted.
"I owed it to myself to find some good in Hannah, and this was the only thing I could think of at that moment. "'Oh yes, she's that, he assented. 'A little too much so for our sized house, I sometimes think. "'You see, he went on, 'she's a bit cornery in her temper, Hannah is; and then her mother's a bit trying, at times. "'Her mother! I exclaimed, 'but what's she got to do with you?
'Don't tell me that in your country there are no children's rooms. 'There are nurseries, said Anthea doubtfully, 'but the furniture's all cornery and hard, like other rooms. 'How shocking! said the lady;'you must be VERY much behind the times in your country!
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