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In the evening the robbers arrived very tired, and crosser than they had been yesterday, for their luck had turned and they had brought back scarcely anything. 'Someone has eaten our dinner again, cried they. 'It is the man under the barrel, answered the captain.
"No, certainly not; I shall go home in the cool of the evening." "But you may come again in the cool of to-morrow morning." "No It will not be worth while. If I come, I shall be cross." "Then pray stay at Richmond." "But if I do, I shall be crosser still. I can never bear to think of you all there without me." "These are difficulties which you must settle for yourself.
She just knew he would. Even Mary Rose's staunch and friendly soul was a bit daunted by Mr. Wells' very unfriendly appearance but she tried to speak to him as usual. "Good morning, sir." He looked down at her and his shaggy brows drew nearer together. Mary Rose had thought he could not look crosser but he managed to look considerably crosser as he grunted: "So you're back?"
"I know what you mean," said Peggy defiantly, "and we may as well have it out now as any time. If you throw him at me, I shall quarrel with you. I detest Rice Jones. He makes me crosser than any other person in the world." "How can you detest a man like that? I am almost afraid of him. He has a wonderful force.
The combined effect of the rug and the head and the thought of Cuthbert had made him hotter and crosser than he ever remembered having felt before. He was conscious of a wild and unreasoning indignation against the world in general.
Very likely all these guesses were partly right and all partly wrong. When our bodies get out of order, our souls are apt to become disordered too, and at such times there always seem to be little imps of evil lurking near, ready to seize the chance, rush in, fan the small embers of discontent to a flame, make cross days crosser, and turn bad beginnings into worse endings.
Harding and his wife laughed at the manner in which the tables had been turned upon Jack, but the latter had his wits about him sufficiently to answer: "I've always heard, Aunt Rachel, that the crosser a child is, the pleasanter he will grow up. What a very pleasant baby you must have been!"
Just then out came Mrs. Vane and Alie. They both looked pleased and bright, and this made Biddy still crosser. 'Well, now, said her mother consideringly, 'is that all, Alie? Yes I think it is. I must call at the grocer's on the way home, but I think we pass that way. No I don't remember anything else. At this Bridget could no longer keep silent.
I knew that would make him crosser than anything." "Poor chap!" said Tommy suddenly. Tessa came a step nearer to him. "Ayah says the man who did it will be hanged if they catch him," she said. "If it is the Rajah, will you manage so as I can go and see? I should like to." "Tessa!" exclaimed Stella. Tessa turned flushed cheeks and shining eyes upon her. "I would!" she declared stoutly. "I would!
He sang it until the other children heard and laughed, too; and the crosser Mary got, the more they sang "Mistress Mary, quite contrary"; and after that as long as she stayed with them they called her "Mistress Mary Quite Contrary" when they spoke of her to each other, and often when they spoke to her. "You are going to be sent home," Basil said to her, "at the end of the week.
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