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And besides that, just imagine, gnadige Frau, what a humiliating position to be the servant in a house! Always to depend on the caprice or the disposition of the spirits of the masters! And the master always pesters you with foolishness. Pfui! .. And the mistress is jealous, picks, and scolds."
Even her mother at last formed his acquaintance; and, as the artist listened to the garrulous lady for half an hour with scarcely an interruption, she pronounced him one of the most entertaining of men. As Mrs. Mayhew was chanting his praises that evening, Ida broke out petulantly: "Was there ever such a gad-fly as this artist! He pesters me from morning till night." "Pesters you!
The poor girl is so ashamed now: she comes to me in her merino frock, and pesters me all day to let her do things for me. I am at my wit's end sometimes to invent unreal distresses, like the writers of fiction, you know; and, aunty, dear, you will not have to pay for the stuff: to tell you the real truth, I overheard Mr.
Blake would not like to meet him. I told him you would be willing to let bygones be bygones, and help him start off with a new tally card." "Lafayette Ashton working as a cowboy!" murmured Mrs. Blake. "He is still a good deal of a tenderfoot. But he is learning fast; and work! the way he pesters Daddy to find him something to do!" "He certainly must be a changed man," dryly commented Blake.
She stooped it was perfectly amazing how spry she was and pulled out from under the stove a half-grown kitten, very sleepy, yawning and stretching, and blinking its eyes. "There, Betsy!" said Aunt Abigail, putting the little yellow and white ball into the child's lap. "There is one of old Whitey's kittens that didn't get given away last summer, and she pesters the life out of me.
He didn't answer. "Will you sleep with Cat tonight?" "I hate the smell of that dog." "Hmm maybe you should give a friend a call." "I don't have any. I don't like people and they don't like me." "I can't believe that. Is there no one at St. Michaels whom you play with?" "It isn't called St. Michaels." "Whatever. Answer my question." "There is a Russian kid who pesters me."
He looks in the glass and imagines all kinds of monstrous changes in his person. His fears have no foundation in fact or should I say in the flesh? A year after the duchess makes overtures, the chorus girl threatens to throw up her engagement for him, and the chambermaid pesters him with unnecessary questions concerning baths and towels.
Lady Bertie was in great tribulation this year at Paris: that was the reason she did not come over before Easter; and Villebecque extricated her from a scrape. He would assist her now if he could. By-the-bye, the day that I had the pleasure of making your acquaintance, she was here with Villebecque, an hour at my door, but I could not see her; she pesters me, too, with her letters.
Why, I might have known he didn't know, because he is always trying to be friendly with us, as little encouragement as we give him. More than once people have twitted me with it. There's the Wilsons, and the Wilcoxes, and the Harknesses, they take a mean pleasure in saying 'Your friend Burgess, because they know it pesters me.
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