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Absolute, peremptory facts are bullies, and those who keep company with them are apt to get a bullying habit of mind; not of manners, perhaps; they may be soft and smooth, but the smile they carry has a quiet assertion in it, such as the Champion of the Heavy Weights, commonly the best-natured, but not the most diffident of men, wears upon what he very inelegantly calls his "mug."
'Dinner ter cook? shouted one small boy. 'Why, they always cooks the cats' meat at the shop. 'You little so-and-so! said Liza, somewhat inelegantly, making a dash at him.
Absolute, peremptory facts are bullies, and those who keep company with them are apt to get a bullying habit of mind; not of manners, perhaps; they may be soft and smooth, but the smile they carry has a quiet assertion in it, such as the Champion of the Heavy Weights, commonly the best-natured, but not the most diffident of men, wears upon what he very inelegantly calls his "mug."
"Oh, Teddy, I'm sorry, so desperately sorry, I could kill myself if it would do any good! I wish you wouldn't take it so hard, I can't help it. You know it's impossible for people to make themselves love other people if they don't," cried Jo inelegantly but remorsefully, as she softly patted his shoulder, remembering the time when he had comforted her so long ago.
"Not if I know it!" graphically but somewhat inelegantly said Tom, who had one of his many prides hidden away somewhere in the flowing sweep of that ornament to the upper lip. "Then we must gray it!" said the costumer. "No objection to looking a little older?" "Make me as old as Dr. Parr or old Galen's head, if you like," was the answer.
Amos is soon too old to work it and you can't depend on hired help. Then what?" "Search me," said the boy inelegantly. "But I'm not worrying about it. We may not want to live here ten years from now. But, Mother," he veered suddenly, "got any pie left from dinner? I'm hungry. May I forage?" "Help yourself, Philip. There's a piece of cherry pie and a slice of chocolate cake in the cellar."
The noises . . . there's something dreadful about the noises, when you can't bar a door between you and them." Hansel grunted very inelegantly. "Noises!" he retorted. "That's just like a girl. The only noise that bothers me is the rumbling of my insides. I'm hungry." Grettel closed her eyes as if this were really too much. She seemed unable to think of a word to say.
"Tush," Henderson snorted inelegantly. "Salesmen are born, not made the real high-grade ones. And the factories are turning out mechanical experts by the gross." "I know that," his son grinned. "But I like Thompson. He gives you the feeling that you can absolutely rely on him." "Send him up to me," John P. repeated and when John P. issued a fiat like that, even his son did not dispute it.
"Good gracious me!" she exclaimed so inelegantly that it was well Miss Hepburn could not hear. "What things to find in this house! They're like like canary birds in an ironmonger's shop. Who could have owned them?" Suddenly the answer flashed into her head, and sent the blood to her face as if she had received a stinging slap such as Grandma used to give: "These things were my mother's!"
"You may think it's funny," she observed serenely, "but I have six towels and three aprons made and put away all ready." "My aunt!" sighed Bobby inelegantly, shaking her head. "You believe in starting young, don't you? Why, I'm fourteen, and I've never given a thought to a hope-chest."
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