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He says the Great White Father at Washington, D.C., has wished his children to be give an English education and learnt to write a good business hand, and all like that; and read books, and so on; and the Great White Father will be peeved if Pete takes it in this rough way.
Pete and Monte came in and drank. Monte had colic. We fed them and turned them loose but the blamed fools hung around all day and eat up some sour beans I throwed out. Cash was peeved and swore they couldn't have another grain of feed. But Monte come to the shack and watched Cash through a knothole the size of one eye till Cash opened up his heart and the bag. Cash cut his thumb opening tomatoes.
The daughter of the house falls in love with you; the son of the house languishes in chokey because he has a row with you in Piccadilly; and on top of all that you come here and camp out at the castle gates! Naturally the family are a bit peeved. Only natural, eh? I mean to say, what?" George listened to this address in bewilderment. Maud in love with him! It sounded incredible.
I hope the noble Miss Noble will hurry up and move out," wished Judith. "I can imagine how delighted she'll be." "She may care but little," shrugged Adrienne. "Of a truth, she has not been here so long. But a few hours! It is not much!" "I don't believe she'll relish it a bit," prophesied Judith. "She looks to me like one of those persons who get peeved over nothing. Isn't it funny, though? Mrs.
Hollyhocks, larkspur, pansies, and foxglove were ready to transplant, when a terrible catastrophe occurred a little neighbor girl called on me, and, finding me gone, was right peeved. She entertained herself by uprooting my posies. With a complete thoroughness she mixed plants and dirt together, stirring water into the mixture with my trowel.
"No, kid," he answered, "if I was peeved at you, you'd learn it without askin' questions." He turned slowly away. "Maybe I got jaundice, boys," he said to the crowd, "but it seems to me I see something kind of yellow around here!" The delightful subtlety of this remark roused another side-shaking burst of merriment.
You are unspeakably rude, and I ought to be furiously angry." The Texan appeared to consider. "No. You oughtn't to do that because when something important comes up you ain't got anything back, an' folks won't regard you serious. But you wouldn't have been even peeved if you knew what I was thinkin' about." "What was it?"
"Mind you own concerns, Jim Bender!" exclaimed the girl, both wrathful and hurt. "I can manage that pony if she's let alone." Then she raised her voice again and cried to Ratty: "M'Gill! you get off that horse! At once, I tell you!" "The Missus is sure some peeved," muttered Bender to one of his mates. "And why shouldn't she be? We'd never ought to let Ratty try to ride that critter."
Or he might say he would be at some station all the following day; which would be a clumsy falsehood, because he was at that moment pulling out, as Ed would find when he got there. The operating department must of thought them a couple of very busy men, wanting so much to meet, yet never seeming able to get together. Ed got peeved at last by the way Ben was putting him off.
"Don't nobody leave that boat!" he called, "or I'll shoot." "Dearie me," said Roy. "He seems to be peeved. What are we up against, anyway?" "Don't shoot, mister," called Tom. "You couldn't drag us out of here with a team of horses." "Tell him we are Boy Scouts and fear naught," whispered Pee-wee. "Tell him we scorn his er what d'you call it?" "Hey, mister," called Roy.
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