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"Well, anyhow, Hollie," exclaimed the younger sister, "you didn't explain a thing about how literary men came to be so peculiar, and that's what you started out to do, you know." "Well," said Hollanden crossly, "you must never expect a man to do what he starts to do, Millicent. And besides," he went on, with the gleam of a sudden idea in his eyes, "literary men are not peculiar, anyhow."
We don't understand the joint possession of an artificial frontier," he added, with an air of quoting from some book. "Did you get that from Marker?" Holm asked crossly. "He once said the same thing to me." His temper had suffered badly among the hills. "We'd better get you to bed, my dear fellow," said Thwaite, looking down at him. "You look remarkably cheap.
"Time that was no longer is," answered the other, crossly; then to me, "Send down my goods by some of those black fellows, and no more parleying, sir." "But, sir," I said, "'twill be a good fifteen pound for Mistress Watson and the little ones when the merchant be paid." "Go to," he growled out, "what will that avail if I be put in prison?
Eleanor flushed at these words and said haughtily, "I did not ask for advice, I asked for information." "Very true," replied Miriam calmly, "but you see I have given you both." "You are the most ill-bred lot of girls I have ever seen," returned Eleanor crossly, "and I think you are making a great deal of unnecessary fuss over a small matter.
An instant later she saw that when he turned back from the rough, unpainted gang-plank to the steerage-deck to the more exclusive bridge, railed, hung with canvas at the sides and carpeted with red, which led to the first-cabin quarters, a lady seized his arm with a proprietary grasp and spoke a little crossly to him because he had delayed to do this tiny service for the pair of steerage passengers.
She nodded to many acquaintances, but George Tressady was not to be seen; and she sat down finally in no mood either to listen or to enjoy, though the magician of the evening was already at work. "There's something very special, isn't there, you want to see Sir George about to-night?" Tully inquired humbly when the next pause occurred. "Of course there is!" said Letty, crossly.
There was no one in the room; and as soon as the page had closed the door, Elizabeth exclaimed, 'I declare, Anne, there is the bone of contention itself St. Augustine in his own person! Oh! look at King Ethelbert's square blue eye; and, Kate, is not this St. Austin's Hill itself in the distance? 'Nonsense, Lizzie! said Katherine, crossly; 'you know it is no such thing. It was in the pattern.
"There!" said Letty, almost crossly, handing him her book, and pointing to the sonnet, as she rose to go. Tom took the book, and sprang to his feet. He had never read the poem, for Milton had not been one of his masters. He stood devouring it.
"Nonsense!" she exclaimed crossly, "You don't stay in bed because you've scratched your ankle." "No. But you must remember you've had a bit of a shock." By this time Kitty and Roger had joined them, overhearing the last part of the conversation. "Of course you'll go to bed at once," asserted Kitty firmly. "Will you give her a hand upstairs, Barry?"
She turned away annoyed, and answered them crossly, following the landlord into the house and questioning him eagerly. She had suddenly arrived at the conclusion that she must see Mrs. Brownleigh and know if she looked like her son, and if she was the kind of mother one would expect such a son to have.
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