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He opened his eyes, and a dazed look came into them, then he said: "Oh, yes, I remember, it began to rain and we were lost, your old crosspatch Garibaldi and I, so I found this nice little place, and I was going to pretend that I was a gypsy brigand, but I fell asleep." Lucia was far too happy to attempt the scolding that she knew Beppi deserved.
"I know I'm an old bear, and a crosspatch, and everything horrid, but I'm nervous, Dotty, I AM." "I know it, old girl, but you'll get over it. I believe this city life is wearing you out! I believe it's time you went home." "Oh, I think so, too. I wish we could go tomorrow!" "Well, we can't. What has got into you, Dollyrinda? I believe you're homesick!" "I am, Dotty!
What is the matter?" "I I wish I were dead!" "Oh Isobel!" "So would you if you had to lie here day in and day out a a helpless cripple and left all alone " Jerry looked around the quiet room. There was something very lonely about it and that patter of the rain "Isn't Mrs. Hicks " "Oh Hicks. She's just a crosspatch! You all leave me to servants because I can't move.
"She hasn't been telephoning all this time at all. Now, crosspatch!" "You know much! Can't you see she just lit up? Effie!" A voice came down to them, clear and with a quality to it like the ring of thin glass. "Coming, pop!"
The Lord had his plans when he took away all her other relations an' I ain't one to interfere." "It means the loss of my job," objected Larry sullenly. "It does not." There was another flourish of the scrub-cloth. "Listen to me, Larry Donovan. Is there anyone in this house 't knows how old Mary Rose is? Does Mrs. Bracken or that crosspatch Miss Adams or the weepin' willow, Mrs.
"The first one that goes in will have to watch his head," said Bill, "for I've heard that seals are very fierce when they have young ones around." "This seal is Trullya, and she will know us. Anyway, she never was a crosspatch, and I'll go first," replied Harry the wise and brave. "And I don't see," he added, "that any one else need go in there.
At another hotel I heard a similar little minx, in a fit of infantile rage, address her mother as "You nasty, mean, old crosspatch;" and the latter, who in other respects seemed a very sensible and intelligent woman, yielded to the storm, and had no words of rebuke.
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