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Clanfrizzle's establishment, the "enfant bleu," already mentioned, was the only individual of his sex retained; and without for a moment disparaging the ability or attentions of this gifted person, yet it may reasonably be credited, that in waiting on a party of twenty-five or thirty persons at dinner, all of whom he had admitted as porter, and announced as maitre d'hotel, with the subsequent detail of his duties in the drawing-room, that Peter, blue Peter his boarding-house soubriquet not enjoying the bird-like privilege of "being in two places at once," gave one rather the impression of a person of hasty and fidgetty habits for which nervous tendency the treatment he underwent was certainly injudicious it being the invariable custom for each guest to put his services in requisition, perfectly irrespective of all other claims upon him, from whatsoever quarter coming and then, at the precise moment that the luckless valet was snuffing the candles, he was abused by one for not bringing coal; by another for having carried off his tea-cup, sent on an expedition for sugar; by a third for having left the door open, which he had never been near; and so on to the end of the chapter.
And the bearing of the men was becoming fidgetty. My visits to the beach became quite interesting to me. One day the doctor came running out of his laboratory with so bright a face that I ventured to ask him about departure. "'Not so long, now, Percy, he said, in his old, kind manner. 'Not so long. The first real success. It iss made.
"Naw'm, 'tain' nuttin' 'tall de matter. She's des got fidgetty." "Well, I'll come in a minute. Are you better to-day? How's your heart?" "Lawd, Miss Cynthia, hit's des bruised all over. Ev'y breaf I draw hits it plum like a hammer. I hyear hit thump, thump, thump all de blessed time." "Be careful, then. Tell mother I'm coming at once."
Besides the ennui of a tête-a-tête, all flattery on one side and contradiction on the other, he was naturally of the fidgetty restless temperament which hates to be long confined to one place or one occupation, and can never hear of a gathering of people, whatever might be the occasion, without longing to find himself amongst them.
"Well, there, Miss," Jane ran on, putting a cushion to my back tenderly it was strange to be the recipient of so much delicate attention from a perfect stranger, "not exactly what you'd call harsh to us ourselves, you know: he was a good master enough, as long as one did what was ordered, though he was a little bit fidgetty. But to you, we all thought he was always rather hard.
"But they always make me fidgetty; and, beside, it came in right across my nose. Well, anyhow, it's cooler in the dark." "What in the world are you so quiet for!" exclaimed Kat, in despair, after a few moments, during which silence settled again. "I? Nothing," said Kittie, with a little start. "Nonsense!"
Why, I have seen good, healthy people, quite nice-tempered people, brought to a shadow by it and churned into so many pounds of incompetent irritability; so exacting about trifles, so fidgetty about catching the mail, and so careless of the health of the uninteresting majority.
But so fidgetty was she lest with the large number of inmates in the garden proper control should not be exercised that she specially sent for Pao-ch'ai and begged of her to keep an eye over every place, explaining to her that the old matrons were of no earthly use, for whenever they could obtain any leisure, they drank and gambled; and slept during broad daylight, while they played at cards during the hours of night.
Sheppard did not make her appearance quite so soon as he expected, the carpenter became a little fidgetty, and, having succeeded in tranquillizing the child, he thought proper to walk so far down the entry as would enable him to reconnoitre the upper windows of the house. A light was visible in the garret, feebly struggling through the damp atmosphere, for the night was raw and overcast.
"You do choose the most painful things to talk about." "I was only trying to be polite," Mr. Crow told him. "You're always complaining that I don't talk about matters you can understand." "I understand these only too well " Turkey Proudfoot said "especially at this season of the year!" It was well along in November. And Turkey Proudfoot was feeling fidgetty.
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