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Brent paced the floor, occupied with his own thoughts. It was more than mere frustration. It went deeper. There was his resentment of the dressing-down he'd taken from Authority; the subtle coolness that had begun to permeate his relations with those upstairs. He jerked his mind away from such thoughts. Nerves. That was it. He was tense. He was imagining things.
"Blame it all, I'm getting to be a regular old granny. What Master Frank needs is a first-class dressing-down, and here the little cuss has got me bluffed to a fare-you-well so that I'm mum as a hooter on the nest," he admitted to himself ruefully.
"Parties" as heerd tell young gents "as passed and wants fer to get the horder for his h'uniforms, sir, yezsir!" Having thus eased his mind, my old friend bustled out of the room as quickly as he had entered, no doubt afraid of my father giving him another "dressing-down." Dad, however, was not thinking of the waiter or his cheeky manner for the moment.
Coming out again, the grim and forbidding doctor ordered Jimmie into his car, and oh, what a dressing-down he did give him! He had Jimmie where he wanted him right over his knees and before he let him up he surely did make him burn!
There was a scathing dressing-down then and there, followed by a visit that evening from Mr. Daley. Steve was secretly uneasy, for more than one story of summary justice on the part of the Greek and Latin instructor had reached him, but he presented a careless front to the Hall Master. Mr.
"It's all right," said Luke, "I said you didn't tell me, but had given it away by blushing when I chanced to speak of it." "Couldn't you have thought of a better one than that?" "Oh, it's all right. And I don't mind telling you I've given him a pretty good dressing-down. I let him have the rough side of my tongue." "Ah," said Dobson, "now that really is something like a lie."
'Well, the bazar's out o' bounds. If we go there we'll get a dressing-down. You come back. 'How near can we go? Kim did not know what bounds meant, but he wished to be polite for the present. ''Ow near? 'Ow far, you mean! We can go as far as that tree down the road. 'Then I will go there. 'All right. I ain't goin'. It's too 'ot. I can watch you from 'ere. It's no good your runnin' away.
"That li'l' wild-cat of yours lost her head when I jollied her and Morse broke the door down like the jackass he is." The dressing-down that Angus McRae gave Whaley is still remembered by one or two old-timers in the Northwest. In crisp, biting words he freed his mind without once lapsing into profanity. He finished with a warning.
The good woman turned on her husband and rebuked him roundly for allowing such "goings-on." Bailey took his dressing-down silently. He felt that the fun had been worth it. Pete himself was rather proud and obviously afraid he would show it. But the atmosphere settled to normal when the men went to work. Pete was commissioned to skin and cut up the deer.
Which, I take it, is why Shakespear's Isabella gave such a dressing-down to Judge Angelo, and why Swift reserved the hottest corner of his hell for judges. Also, of course, why Jesus said "Judge not that ye be not judged" and "If any man hear my words and believe not, I judge him not" because "he hath one that judgeth him": namely, the Father who is one with him.
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