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Raffles Holmes," Grouch shrieked, as he made for the door. "Very well," said Holmes. "I've no doubt they will find our discussion of the other sinners very interesting. They are welcome to the whole story as far as I am concerned." And he closed the door on the ashen face of the suffering Mr. Grouch. "What shall I do with your share of the $30,000, Jenkins?" said Raffles Holmes a week later.
What's the matter with you?" Benton gnawed at a finger nail in silence. "Hang it, I guess you're right," he admitted at last. "But I can't help having a grouch. I'm going to fall behind on this contract, the best I can do." "Well," she replied tartly. "I'm not to blame for that. I'm not responsible for your failure. Why take it out on me?" "I don't, particularly," he answered.
I got a new engineer. He won't last, but he'll last long enough for Mac to forget his grouch an' listen to reason," and with this optimistic remark Captain Scraggs dropped into the engine room to get up enough steam to keep the winch working.
I would like to see you." "All right," said Bertha, "I'll send you a line." And her frank smile made him sorry to say good-bye even for the day. As Mart was going up the elevator he sighed and said: "It takes all kinds of people to make up a world Mr. Hummockstone is wan of the t'others. He has a grouch agin the universe. Sure but he's been housin' a gnawin' serpent. How 'twill all end I dunno."
Four of the men I did not know, but the fifth I recognized at once, having often seen his portrait. He is Admiral Sir John Pendergest, popularly known in the service as 'Old Grouch, a blue terror who knows absolutely nothing of mercy. The lads in the service say he looks so disagreeable because he is sorry he wasn't born a hanging judge.
He polished his shoes briskly, and Gertie smiled there in the darkness of her own room in sympathy. Poor kid, he had his beauty struggles, too. Gertie had never seen the Kid Next Door, although he had come four months ago. But she knew he wasn't a grouch, because he alternately whistled and sang off-key tenor while dressing in the morning.
The near-by bawling of cattle always aroused in him ebullitions of rage. "Solomon's got an awful grouch agin any noise bigger than what he can make hisself," was the saying of the ranch hands. When Joe Hartranft's sister, Mrs. Murray, and her two boys, Rufe and Perry, came to the ranch to spend the month of June, Solomon was promptly hustled into his stall in the barn.
So Pink, having accomplished his purpose, was content to turn the subject. "There's old Liney" he pointed her out to Rowdy "fresh as a meadow-lark. I had a big grouch against her yesterday, just because she batted her eyes and kept putting one foot ahead uh the other. I could 'a' killed her. But she's all right, that old girl. The way she led out down that black coulee last night wasn't slow!
Twice the trainer spoke to him before he heeded; but then he assumed instantly an air of mildest subservience. The expression of a new-weaned puppy is not more innocently mild than the look which a bear can assume when it so desires. "Ah, ha! old sport! So it's you that's got a grouch on to-night; I'll keep an eye on you!" he muttered to himself.
I have preferences, even if I CAN'T afford them. If you were a tippler instead of a plain grouch I could tell you precisely how you'd act and what you'd talk about as the evening goes on. First you'd be gallant and attentive; then you'd forget me and talk business with Mr. Wharton he's nearest you. About that time I'd begin to learn the real names of these lords of finance.
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