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Jimmie declared, and the marines looked as if the lad had echoed their own thoughts. "We may as well halt a little while," Captain Martin said to Ned, "as my boys are beginning to look empty. They have had a hard night of it, and we can't afford to cultivate any grouches!" Ned, although he was anxious to go forward, saw good judgment in this and ordered a halt.
"What's the matter?" he asked, dropping into his chair and testing the soup Winnie instantly placed before him. Hugh was her idol and she always managed not to keep him waiting. "Heat too much for you?" he added. "Grouches is what ails 'em," volunteered Sarah. "I've asked her not to use that word, but no one pays any attention to my wishes," sighed Aunt Trudy.
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He was afraid I found it very trying to live among a lot of old grouches with their best feet in the grave, but he begged me to put up with it because he would miss me so. He liked having me about, not only to read to him but to look at. I reminded him of Grandmother when she was young, and life was worth living. "I cried then. I couldn't help it more for his sake than mine.
"Because," he said, "with all his faults, his queerness and his grouches, Bill has done more than any man living to well, to keep something alive in me in my work, I mean that I want later on as soon as I've made money enough." She stared at him. "You mean that he your partner wants something more than money?" It was a slip, but she was stunned.
So there they were, fighting the war again; Peter had to take up her burden, be a hero, and a martyr, and a "Red." That same afternoon, as fate willed it, three "wobblies" out of a job came to call; and oh, how tired Peter was of these wandering agitators insufferable "grouches!" Peter would want to say: "Oh, cut it out!
"'Not till that is done will our sons and daughters see that the ideal of American manhood and culture isn't a lot of cranks sitting around chewing the rag about their Rights and their Wrongs, but a God-fearing, hustling, successful, two-fisted Regular Guy, who belongs to some church with pep and piety to it, who belongs to the Boosters or the Rotarians or the Kiwanis, to the Elks or Moose or Red Men or Knights of Columbus or any one of a score of organizations of good, jolly, kidding, laughing, sweating, upstanding, lend-a-handing Royal Good Fellows, who plays hard and works hard, and whose answer to his critics is a square-toed boot that'll teach the grouches and smart alecks to respect the He-man and get out and root for Uncle Samuel, U.S.A.!"
I've had to hold my own against chronic grouches too long to have nerves, so I went to the door and looked out. The man came around the corner just then and I could see him plainly in the firelight. He was covered with snow, and he wore a sweater and no overcoat, but he looked like a gentleman. "I beg your pardon for spying," he said, "but the fire looked so snug!
Why, I've been waitin' for him to show up again like a hired girl waits for Thursday afternoon. It's Mr. Pepper, all right; but it looks like he's been let in bad, for after one or two gasps in chorus that bunch of lady grouches gets their second wind and closes in on him with a whoop. "Where's my dividends? I want to draw out my money!
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