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I've got backbone lumps myself, and they used to stick out as much as yours do, until I began to get fatter, and I am not fat enough yet to hide them. There's not a lump as big as a pin! If you ever say there is again, I shall laugh!" No one but Colin himself knew what effect those crossly spoken childish words had on him.
The hum of distant voices certainly reached there, but that was all, for Bashford's Lane, a retiring thoroughfare facing a blank dock wall, capped here and there by towering spars, set an example of gentility which neighbouring streets had long ago decided crossly was impossible for ordinary people to follow.
The Glow-worm bore us onward like a gallant steed, and I compared our headlong flight with the King of Denmark's ride when his Rose of the Isles lay dying. "Think of something cheerful," said Sahwah, crossly; "Gladys isn't lying at the point of death." After all, the comparison didn't hold good, for the King's steed reached his destination and the Glow-worm didn't.
You proposed getting the plums, now let 's see you do it, answered Nelly, rather crossly, for she had bitten the green plum, and it puckered her mouth. "'Wait a minute, and you will see me do it, cried I, as a new thought came into my naughty head. "'What are you taking your shoes and socks off for?
"The Red Rider!" protested Ranson; "I don't see anything exciting in rounding up one miserable horse thief." "Only they don't round him up," returned Curtis crossly. "That's why it's exciting. He's the best in his business. He's held up the stage six times now in a year. Whoever the fellow is, if he's one man or a gang of men, he's the nerviest road-agent since the days of Abe Case."
"Well, I'll teach thee." "Oh, Jack!" and she leapt up with flashing eyes; "how good thou be'est!" "Doan't," Jack said crossly; "what be there good in teaching a lass to spell? There's twopence, run down to the corner shop and buy a spelling-book; we'll begin at once." And so Nelly had her first lesson.
"Isn't it getting rough?" asked Ellen. "The ship seems to be tipping." "Yes, it is," said Lottie, crossly. "Good-night." If the Rev. Mr. Breckon was making an early breakfast in the hope of sooner meeting Lottie, who had dismissed him the night before without encouraging him to believe that she wished ever to see him again, he was destined to disappointment.
He went to the old-fashioned gas-fixture, turned out the light, and muttered his way morosely into bed. "What?" said his wife, crossly, bothered by a subsequent mumbling. "More like hook-worm, I said," he explained, speaking louder. "I don't know what to do with him!"
I would have given you a letter to Farmer Landfried's wife in Allgau; and there you would have been treated like a son of the family." "Oh, don't talk to me about her!" said Damie crossly. "She has owed me a pair of leather breeches she promised me for nearly thirteen years. Don't you remember? when we were little, and thought we had only to knock, and mother and father would open the door.
An eminent Christian of his acquaintance thought in boyhood that an old woman looked crossly at him, and he went in dread of being bewitched for a whole summer. The mere terror might have caused fits, he would then have denounced the old woman, and she would probably have been burned. Twenty people were finally implicated, several were executed, and one killed himself.
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