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But two years in Canada and one run home will make him free of the Brotherhood in Canada as it does anywhere else. He may grumble at certain aspects of the life, lament certain richnesses only to be found in England, but as surely as he grumbles so surely he returns to the big skies, and the big chances.
Claxton was, therefore as just said, a particular friend, and in a certain sense a confidante. "The old trouble," replied Mrs. Ellis to the closing question of her friend. "With your husband?" "Yes. He pinches me in money matters so closely, and grumbles so eternally at what he calls my extravagance, that I'm out of all patience.
"Whoever," he said, "is nobly born is a man to be suspected. Every priest, every frequenter of the old court, every lawyer, every banker, is a man to be suspected. Every person who grumbles at the course which the Revolution takes is a man to be suspected. There are whole castes already tried and condemned. There are callings which carry their doom with them.
"Hush, hush!" said Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes, "Grandpa Grumbles is talking." Grandpa Grumbles went on, "On long winter evenings I sat and mended and glued and pasted the toys and soon they looked as good as new." "Rap-a-tap," sounded on the door, "Rap-a-tap." Bunny took the candle and went to the door. There stood Doctor Cotton-Tail. He said, "Good evening, how are the Seventeen Little Bears?
Because the Englishman grumbles when the Indian is two hours late in keeping his appointment, the latter thinks that it is only part of the former's natural unreasonableness. This Indian habit of unpunctuality would soon produce confusion and disaster on the railway.
It is fun to go riding along, Singing and whistling a right merry song." The umbrella came to the chimney of Grandpa Grumbles' house. It began to close up a little. "Help, help!" cried Snubby Nose, "we shall be squeezed to death!" Tippy Toes sat very still. He made himself as small as possible. Grandpa Grumbles said, "Down my chimney every one goes, How we shall travel the umbrella knows!"
You must wear a pink wrapper, and drink tea out of a pink cup, and eat pink wintergreen candy!" Snubby Nose liked the idea of wintergreen candy. He hugged Doctor Cotton-Tail and stopped crying at once. Susan got a pink wrapper and got a pink china cup for his tea. Grandpa Grumbles felt in his overcoat pocket and took out sixteen pieces of Wintergreen candy. It was pink wintergreen candy of course!
And if the old man grunts and shakes his head and grumbles about waste of ammunition, you just ask him if he'd mind you bringing one of your canisters of powder as you and your uncle's got for your double guns. He might let you then, if your old man don't mind. We could divide it into about four goes as wouldn't make much noise, and there'd be some sense in it.
She will not dance that, but sends Eugene in quest of another partner, at which he grumbles. The Latimers are not here, a sick baby has prevented, though now Violet begins to feel quite at home with many of the dwellers in the park and about. Even madame searches her out presently. "My dear child," she says, in that soft, suave tone, "are you not well this evening? You are such a little recluse."
But that fails to explain why you should invent for our benefit any such colossal whopper as that treasure-island fiction." "No fiction about it," grumbles Rupert, his voice a bit husky, either from indignation or chicken sandwich, we couldn't tell which. "And I'll find it yet," he adds. "You will have ample opportunity," says Old Hickory, "for when we leave here you will be left also.
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