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Now nine is the crossest of all cross numbers, and full to the lip of all crochets. So the wizard staggered back, and thought, and inquired again with bravery, 'Where can you find a man and wife, one going up-hill and one going down, and not a word spoken between them? 'In a cucumber plant, said the modest saint; blushing even to think of it; and the wizard knew he was done for.
Before thou crossest thy threshold, thy good fortune will have filled thy house." And so it was. His children had found a treasure in the ground, and, as he was about to enter his house, his wife met him and reported the lucky find. His wife was an estimable, pious woman, and she said to her husband: "We shall enjoy seven good years.
At length, tired out with their exertions, the two Sword-Fish gave up the chase, and being in a very ill-temper, and having no one else to vent it on, they began to quarrel with each other. "It's all your fault anyway," snarled Slasher, the biggest and crossest fish. "How often have I told you to take my advice in these matters!
"Lord bless 'ee," said Mrs Crump, the postmistress, and Mrs Crump was supposed to have the sourest temper in Allington, "whenever I look at thee, Miss Lily, I thinks that surely thee is the beautifulest young 'ooman in all these parts." "And you are the crossest old woman," said Lily, laughing, and giving her hand to the postmistress. "So I be," said Mrs Crump. "So I be."
After hesitating a moment which way to turn, she decided to visit the Snubnosed Princesses and passed through the big reception room to the sleeping room of Indigo. There this Princess, the crossest and most disagreeable of all the disagreeable six, was curled up in bed and slumbering cozily.
"I've hardly time to think. I think I am, though, happy as most people. Some days bright, some days cloudy, and now and then a storm. That's the way it is with all, I imagine. We all have our crosses, you know, but by and by all will come right." "I should be cross enough with all your crosses." "They might make you patient. The crossest people I know are those who shun all crosses."
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.
D'Artagnan launched at the master of the dogs one of his crossest looks, and said to him, "Monsieur, if any one told me you had eaten your dogs' meat, not only would I refuse to believe it; but still more, if you were condemned to the lash or to jail for it, I should pity you and would not allow people to speak ill of you.
I thought you'd scold me and be very cross. I came to you as a punishment, for Polly always said you were the crossest woman she ever met." "Polly said that? Humph! Now eat up your breakfast quickly, Daisy. I'm going out. Don't stir from this room until I come back." Mrs.
"I thought you would eat me up a while ago for bringing you a bowl of rich broth" "I suppose I do bore you at times, Jean," he said penitently. "Well, I should say you did," she sighed in mock heroism, "why, you are the crossest, and crankiest and sulkiest patient it was ever a woman's misfortune to nurse. Come now I am going to dose you with this beef tea, just for refusing me awhile ago."
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