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Yes, at those seasons they bring such shoals of children ah, preserve us from the children! yes, and grown-up people too, for that matter; and they all want graves just at the wrong time of year! They always choose the wrong time! It would not be so bad if one could only skimp the measurements a bit; but, you see, no one is so particular as the poor about the measurements.
The children, of course, would "run together", nor did the parents take steps to prevent them, sure that they would, as they grew up, take their own sides as naturally as they themselves had done in their day. Meantime "children were children", and they need not be worried with things like grown-up folk.
"If you had your way, indeed!" he grumbled, pushing his chair back from the table and preparing to leave the room. "When do you not get your way, I'd like to know? It's a case of serving two masters with a vengeance, when a man has a wife and a grown-up daughter! Settle it to please yourselves, and don't take any notice of me.
Bernadine complained; "he called us little devils." "All right," Beth answered casually. But Bernadine was disgusted. She was one of those pious children who like to stand high in the estimation of the grown-up people; and she disapproved of Beth's conduct when it got her into trouble.
The Captain was so busy with his own thoughts that, for the moment, he did not notice the papers. "Zoeth," he said, "our Mary-'Gusta's changed into a grown-up woman. Even this last summer has changed her.
"If you please, ma'am, is Mr. 'Olly at 'ome?" "No, he ain't." "I knew it," said Tilda tranquilly. "But by all accounts 'e's got a son." "Eh?" The woman still stared, divided between surprise and mistrust. "You're mistakin'," Tilda pursued. "I ain't come with any scandal about the fam'ly. A grown-up son, I mean with a 'orse an' cart.
Yet, though she and Woloda were thus grown-up, they never made friends with one another, but, on the contrary, seemed to cherish a mutual contempt.
'But I do wish auntie had given you tea, she said. We told her not to be too hard on her aunt, because you have to make allowances for grown-up people. When we parted she said she would never forget us, and Oswald gave her his pocket button-hook and corkscrew combined for a keepsake. Alice and me capturing the pig was never put in.
"They bear it," he says, "by a direct sufferance;" that is to say, they submit to just what discomfort exists at the moment, without fidgetting about either a cause or a consequence," and decidedly without fretting about what is to come. For a grown-up person to attain to the same state of unanxious resignation, is one of the high triumphs of Christian faith.
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