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"I presume they have sufficient paint," answered Smith stiffly, as he flapped his brush across the bright head of a big rivet. "Why yes," agreed Madden, a little taken aback, "but you look like you might be getting up a grouch at something " "About time to pull up, isn't it?" interrupted Smith.
Bobby Wilbraham would celebrate the attainment of his majority by a big fête on the 17th of next month. Everybody knows that Mr. Blank is Mr. Wilbraham's trustee until he comes of age. It was easy enough to surmise from that what the nature of the trouble was. Two and two almost invariably make four, Mr. Grouch."
That his old friend was just recovering from his consequent grouch, and, anyway, folks mustn't expect anything more than common civility from him as yet. He said that he hoped to make Fort Wrigley on the Mackenzie River some time in the summer, and maybe even Fort Simpson. But that would be the limit. By that time, he guessed Bill would have mutinied and probably murdered him.
At four o'clock the following afternoon Carroll received from Chief Leverage a detailed report on Gerald Lawrence: "He's a manufacturer," said Leverage. "President of the Capitol City Woolen Mills. Rated about a hundred thousand maybe a little more. He's on the Board of Directors of the Second National. Has the reputation of being hard, fearless and considerable of a grouch. Age forty-two.
It's the primest game you've ever thought out! Rat! Rat! Don't get a grouch on! We'll keep still, Rat! Primest lark of all 'll be the sneakin' about an' keepin' quiet. Aw, Rat! Keep it up!" "Keep it up yourselves!" snarled The Rat. "Not another cove of us could do it but you! Not one! There's no other cove could think it out. You're the only chap that can think out things.
Grouch." he remarked, "in case you wish to consult me professionally." "Hah!" sneered Grouch. "You think you can put me off this way, do you?" "I think so," said Holmes, with a glittering eye. "No gentleman or other person may try to raise a disturbance in my private apartments and remain there." "We'll see what the police have to say about this, Mr.
"Getting a grouch on or being sorry for what you can't help cuts no ice," he sometimes said. "When it does, me for getting up at daybreak and keeping at it! But it doesn't, you bet your life on that."
"By the way," said Jimmy, as he was preparing to leave with the rest, "I had a run in with Buck Looker when I was coming here to-night, and he said he was going to lay for me and do me up." "He did, did he?" asked Bob. "What was he sore about?" "Oh, he's had a grouch ever since the day of the fire," replied Jimmy.
"I'm glad you're not one of those women that wears a frowsy, lacy, ribbony, what-do-you-call-'em-boudoir-cap down to breakfast. They always make me think of uncombed hair. That's just one reason why I'm glad." "And I'm glad," said Emma, looking at his clear eyes and steady hand and firm skin, "for a number of reasons. One of them is that you're not the sort of man who's a grouch at breakfast."
"Do not be rude, Thomas," said Miss Alicia, with dignity. "Dunnot be rude thysen," replied Tummas. "I'm noan o' thy lad." Tembarom walked over to the sofa. "Say," he began with jocular intent, "you've got a grouch on, ain't you?" Tummas turned on him eyes which bored.
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