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Updated: June 23, 2025
"I'll tell them, back at the office, that you expect a legacy, and when that comes you must pay." "Yes, yes! I'll pay!" promised Mrs. Golden. "Only give me a little more time and I'll pay." "Well, see that you do!" grumbled the black-bearded man, who appeared to be crosser than ever now. "When I come again I want money!"
'Pears like he just grew crosser, every day; kep me up nights till I got farly beat out, and couldn't keep awake no longer; and cause I got to sleep, one night, Lors, he talk so orful to me, and he tell me he'd sell me to just the hardest master he could find; and he'd promised me my freedom, too, when he died." "Had you any friends?" said Emmeline. "Yes, my husband, he's a blacksmith.
She had said it quite at random, although she was so vexed in being disturbed in her nap that she wished for a moment that they would. She stood in her front door and looked at her dead Christmas-trees, and that always made her feel crosser, and she had not at any time a pleasant disposition.
But I am sure it was only kindness that prompted him on this dreary day to set the fire in the grate to blazing and arrange the tea-table, the steaming kettle close by, and turn on all the lights. How cozy it is! How homelike! Jack grows stronger each day, and crosser, which is a good sign.
'HE ought to have his heart's desire, too, said Anthea, in a sort of stubborn gentleness. 'HIS heart's desire, said the Psammead, 'is the perfect Amulet you hold in your hand. Yes and has been ever since he first saw the broken half of it. 'We've got ours, said Anthea softly. 'Yes, said the Psammead its voice was crosser than they had ever heard it 'your parents are coming home.
Elizabeth asked, noting the fagged and heavy face, and the gathering tears. "Oh, nothin' more 'n 'as happened many a time; only 'e grows crosser, seems to me, as 'e grows older. He was particular bad last night, and I didn't sleep none. It's awful hot weather t' lay awake."
Ray had been crosser and more horrid than usual, she said 'yes'. Cassim ben Halim was Mohammedan, of course, but he and Saidee were married according to French law. They didn't go to church, because he couldn't do that without showing disrespect to his own religion, but he promised he'd not try to change hers.
In the morning, when Arch came down, she had indeed gone away drifted out with the tide and with the silent night. After Mat's death the home at Grandma Rugg's became insupportable to Arch. He could not remain there. The old woman was crosser than ever, and, though he gave her every penny of his earnings, she was not satisfied.
Well, I'll be shot...." Ingram cut short his tale. "I can't go into what followed. Much of it was irrelevant, all of it was preposterous. It ended by Mirza directing me to the nearest hotel, in perfect English. The crosser he got, the better his English. That's odd, you know. Of course, I chucked the chap. He lost a soft billet." There were no comments from the auditory, save such as Mrs.
The sealskin lady looked crosser than ever. The khaki boy said, "Just my luck," and two of the children began to cry. Aunt Cyrilla took some apples and striped candy sticks from her basket and carried them to them. She lifted the oldest into her ample lap and soon had them all around her, laughing and contented.
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