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The average girl has little love of sozzling and mussing with the elements, and cooking involves problems in organic chemistry too complex to be understood very profoundly, but the rudiments of household chemistry should be taught. Physics, too, should be kept to elementary stages.
She made no demand upon him for admiration on this occasion, she seemed sufficiently satisfied with herself; but after a time, when they were sitting together on the sofa, and he still pursued the lines of her garment with questioning eyes, she recalled him to the conventionalities of the situation. "You needn't be afraid of mussing it," she said.
Butler did not pass on Greg's side of the street, but passed rather close to the tent opposite. Certainly the yearling's eyes were not on the ground. He saw not the cord on this side of the street. There was a catch, a trip, and Mr. Butler went to the ground, mussing the knees of his spooniest pair of white ducks. Moreover, he cut the palm of his right hand, slightly, on a sharp pebble.
"I was half afraid of that young person who was just down here, Frances. I can kiss you now without mussing you all up, eh?" Pratt had stolen out of the room through one of the windows to the veranda. His heart was swelling and salt tears stung his eyes.
Those were the early days of the war when you could go anywhere, if you did it nicely. The Belgians are a friendly people. They can't bear to say No, and if they saw a hard-working man come along with his eye on his job, they didn't like to turn him back, even if he was mussing up an infantry formation or exposing a trench. They'd rather share the risk, as long as it brought him in returns.
And one of the most amusing features is to watch how a man's disposition crabs with the mussing of his clothing. No wonder the men who live out here wear things that won't muss, or there wouldn't be but one left and he'd be just a concentrated chunk of unadulterated venom. Really, Winthrop, you do look horrid, and your disposition is perfectly nasty.
Kennedy's words seemed to have a bracing effect on Reginald and a few moments later he left, much calmer. "I hope I have given him something to do which will keep him from mussing things up again," remarked Kennedy, mindful of Reginald's former excursion into detective work.
Then from across the years a mocking voice rang out shrill and cold and cruel: "Now don't you go mussing up my apartment, Pipo!" He drew back his hand with a jerk, and clutched the chair; and sat bolt upright, while every nerve rang with the alarm. Minutes passed.
It was a long-standing habit, to save back-breaking work for mother, to fold my napkin neatly after meals. Unlearning that and acquiring the custom of mussing up one's napkin and leaving it carelessly on the table was the meanest work of my life. Interesting guests came to Tom's house, and I would grow absorbed in their talk.
Severence, as she entered the drawing-room. "She'll be down presently if you care to wait." This, partly because she hoped he would go, chiefly because he seemed in such a hurry. "I'll wait a few minutes," said Craig in his sharp, irritating voice. And he began to tour the room, glancing at pictures, at articles on the tables, mussing the lighter pieces of furniture about. Mrs.
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