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Do you hear? 'Your cock, and your basket, Father Grumbler? But you have just 'MY cock and MY basket! interrupted he. 'And, if you are too deaf and too stupid to understand what that means, I have got something which may help to teach you. And opening the bag, he cried: 'Flack, flick, switch, be quick.
Dick, who persistently refused to be a grumbler, knew that a cause must exist for such an action, but before he could wonder about it long Colonel Winchester told him, Warner and Pennington to have their horses saddled, and be ready to ride at a moment's notice. "We're to be a part of General Sheridan's escort," he said, "and we're to go to a little place called Charlestown."
O-he! old grumbler beyond the ocean. Wait till Don Sabas comes again to the Koenigin Strasse. He will let you kneel and touch the folds of it with one finger. O-he! old spectacled ransacker of the world!" Forgotten was the impotent revolution, the danger, the loss, the gall of defeat.
I was certainly thinking so myself; but you always accuse me of being a grumbler, so I thought I would hold my tongue." Ralph laughed. "I don't think any one could deny that it is miserable, Stapleton; but some people keep up their spirits under miserable circumstances and others don't. This is one of the occasions on which it is really very hard to feel cheerful.
No doubt I should have cried out where the shoe pinched, and railed against laws that vex me; but from the moment you first talked to me I became a new man. You taught me to act, as Rousseau and Madame de Grantmesnil had taught me to think and to feel. There is my brother, a grumbler too, but professes to have a wiser head than mine.
'Suppose it is not mine at all; supposing Ah, the scoundrels! And without listening to his wife and children, who were frightened at his strange conduct and begged him to stay at home, he ran across to the tavern and burst open the door. 'Can I do anything for you, Father Grumbler? asked the innkeeper's wife in her softest voice. 'I have taken the wrong basket by mistake, of course, said he.
'Here is yours, will you give me back my own? 'Why, what are you talking about? answered she. 'You can see for yourself that there is no basket here. And though Father Grumbler did look, it was quite true that none was to be seen.
The Roman is a grumbler by nature, but he is also a "peace-at-any-price" man. Politicians and revolutionary agents have more than once been deceived by these traits, supposing that because the Roman grumbled he really desired change, but realising too late, when the change has been begun, that that same Roman is but a lukewarm partisan.
Naturally indolent, and a constitutional grumbler, it was with the greatest difficulty that Moodie could get him to do any thing beyond bringing a few pails of water from the swamp for the use of the house, and he has often passed me carrying water up from the lake without offering to relieve me of the burden.
I call it plumb equal to tellin' you you're a reg'lar tomnoddy to say a fellar's uther 'clever' or 'good. I 'low little stutterin' Monty Sturtevant could ha' done the chores well enough till I get 'round again, an' I could ha' bossed him." Then, after a moment: "But I can't boss the deacon." "No, you poor old grumbler! I reckon he isn't that kind.
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