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Everybody knew she nagged at and overworked and half-starved that ragged little Sims orphan she'd adopted, but here she was making the biggest noise of all! However, much as she wished old Mrs. Lemon to stop, Missy could not approve of what she, just then, saw take place in her own pew. Genevieve was whispering and giggling again. Missy turned to look.
Drake wheeled, ungraciously, and returned to the doorway, while Dundee again consulted his watch, mentally subtracting the minutes which had been wasted upon this interruption, from the time he had marked upon his memory as the moment at which Drake had interfered. But an undercurrent of skepticism nagged at his mind. Why had Drake chosen to walk?
They must be nearly perfect, I mean mechanically. The steering gear, for instance " His voice trailed off into silence. "What a pity," said Miss Gibson, "that the King can't be here. I suppose now there'll, be no royal salutes fired and we shan't see his yacht." "All Mr. Gorman's fault," I said. "If he had not nagged on in the way he has about Home Rule, the King would be here with the rest of us.
At once, David Cable called a halt in his demoralising career and saw the situation plainly. He forgot that she had "nagged" him to the point where endurance rebelled; he forgot everything but the fact that he cared for her in spite of all.
But Violet wouldn't hear of a lady. Ladies gave too much trouble; they nagged at you, and they beat you down. Well, then, if she liked, a gentleman. A gentleman who would be out all day, and whose hours of occupation would coincide strictly with his own. But he impressed it on her that no rooms were to be let in his absence to any applicant whom he had not first inspected. So they settled it.
Some of the boys have nagged a little lately in work. We must keep them up to it not by bullying nobody will work for that but by working on their ambition, and making the cause of each boy the cause of the whole house." Railsford, as he uttered these words, seemed to forget how soon he would have to say "you" instead of "we." He had hardly realised yet what that meant.
She was not at all sure that that old home fashion was not the sweeter after all. While the apportioning of gifts was going on in the morning-room, the cook and her kitchen maids were busy at work in the great nagged kitchen, manufacturing all sorts of dainties to be packed away in the hampers ranged in readiness along the walls.
Perkins bowed his head upon his hands for a moment; then, with a sigh, lightly dropped out of the open window. The name of Uncle Ebeneezer seemed to be one to conjure with. "Dorothy," said Harlan, "might an obedient husband modestly inquire what you have done?" "Elaine and I found Uncle Ebeneezer's diary to-day," explained Dorothy, "and the poor old soul was nagged all his life by relatives.
The husband who is nagged; the husband whose wife is a spendthrift; the husband whose wife wins prizes at bridge and neglects her home; the husband whose wife has deserted him when he needed her most.... Naturally the stories you hear from the "aspirants" are always plausible; and so they go by, the endless passing show.
What was he to do now? Into this atmosphere came Jennie, bringing with her the lightness and comfort of her own hopeful disposition. Nagged to desperation by his thoughts, Brander first talked to her to amuse himself; but soon his distress imperceptibly took flight; he found himself actually smiling. "Ah, Jennie," he said, speaking to her as he might have done to a child, "youth is on your side.
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