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As for misjudgin', I've often an' over again heard 'em say I was the crossest feller they ever did meet with, but they never was more out in their reckoning." Corrie did not smile; he did not betray the smallest symptom of power either to appreciate or to indulge in jocularity at that moment.
I have tried to do right, but it was of no use. When I tried the hardest, he was the crossest, and made me do wrong whether I would or not. I don't care what becomes of me now!" As Andrew uttered these last words, a reckless spirit seized him, and starting up, he walked away with a firm step.
But a kind-hearted girl or two found her out, several lively old maids, as full of the romance of the past as ancient novels, a bashful boy, three or four invalids, and all the children, for Christie had a motherly heart and could find charms in the plainest, crossest baby that ever squalled.
But, Mr. Temple, to comfort you for I never saw a man, gallant or ungallant, look so impatient I shall not be able to stay above a moment Thank you, Mrs. Percy, I can't sit down Mrs. Crabstock, the crossest of Crabstocks and stiffest of pattern-women, is in the carriage waiting for me.
"I must make an end of this," the young fellow burst forth. "It has lasted too long already! I only wonder that it has not killed me! You say you do not know me? And all this time you must have seen me pass you like a madman, my whole heart full of what I had to tell you; and then you only made your crossest mouth, and turned your back upon me." "What had I to say to you?" she curtly replied.
"When Nettie went out to tea, we made as much noise as we liked," said Freddy, "but there was papa there. Now there's only mamma, and she's so cross. I hate Chatham mamma is always crossest when Chatham's there. What do you want to talk to people for, Nettie? Come in, and say there's to be toast, and let us have tea."
"I will point him out to you. You must see him, and, also, Mr. Bodeffer, the oldest inhabitant and crossest." "Will you present them to me?" "No; they might talk to you and take some of my time with you away from me." Her eyes sparkled into his for the merest fraction of a second, and she laughed half mockingly. Then she dropped his lapel and they proceeded.
The three little girls looked inquiringly into each other's faces. "What is the matter? what has Elsie done?" asked Carry in a whisper. "I don't know; nothing I guess," replied Lucy, indignantly. "I do believe he's just the crossest man alive! When I was here last summer he was all the time scolding and punishing poor Elsie for just nothing at all."
Frewellen, the oldest and crossest and greediest of the five box-wallahs, declared that he would lay fifteen rupees to five annas that she was under thirty; that her eyes were sad, and it was probably trouble that had turned her hair. At his time of life, he could tell a young woman when he saw one. No painted old harridan could deceive him.
I loved to talk then not less than I do now, and in a few minutes I had told all I knew and more, too, most likely. At last Mrs. Hudson asked about Mr. Gilbert, and how I liked him. "Not a bit," said I. "He's the hatefulest, crossest, big-feelingest man I ever saw, and Adaline is just like him!"
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