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Sarah broke off from asylum conjurations and turned upon her sister-in-law. "Who's quarreling? Can't I open my head without bein' jumped on by the two of you?" Saxon shrugged her shoulders despairingly, and Sarah swung about on her husband.
What I can't understand, if you care for me, is how you can take so much interest in all these affairs? It certainly isn't devotion to your art that's impelling you, is it?" "Oh, are you going to go on quarreling with me?" asked Stephanie, naively. "Won't you believe me when I say that I love you? Perhaps " But here her histrionic ability came to her aid, and she sobbed violently.
"No," demurred Peter, "you were quarreling in the kitchen the first morning I came here, and you didn't know I was on the place." "Well I got my tribulations," she snapped, staring suspiciously at these unusual questions. There was a pause; then Peter said placatingly: "I was just thinking, Aunt Rose, you might forget your tribulations if you didn't ride them all the time." "Hoccum!
Don't forget the royal neckties," urged Cap'n Bill. "We'll have all the fun there is going," continued the girl, "for we are to entertain the Army of the Pinkies." "The Pinkies!" exclaimed the Captain of the Guards. "Why, they're our enemies, your Short Highness." "Not any more," replied Trot. "I'm Queen of the Pinkies, an' I'm also Queen of the Blues, so I won't have my people quarreling.
"Pray put some animation into your face, or Mrs. Grandon will certainly think we have been quarreling," Wilford whispered, as he lifted his wife from the carriage, and with a great effort Katy tried to be gay and natural. But all the while was she fighting back her tears and wishing she were away.
Love-making, drunkenness, cheating, quarreling, the mere idleness of sitting drowsily in a chair, the gross life of the farmyard and the fields, civic dissensions, the sordid provincial dance of the seven deadly sins, he saw in the same direct, unilluminating way as the Dutch painters; finding, indeed, no beauty in any of these things, but getting his beauty in the deft arrangement of them, in the mere act of placing them in a picture.
"No, Mel, if you'll forgive me, we'll not talk of something else," Lane informed her. "We can argue without quarreling. Come over here and sit down." She came slowly, as if impelled, and she stood before him. To Lane it seemed as if she were both supplicating and inexorable. "Do you remember the last time we sat together on this couch?" she asked. "No, Mel, I don't."
"Here hath been Increase Faith Higginson twice coopered up in a barrel, once for drunkenness, and a second time on suspicion thereof; Jonathan Makepiece hath lain in the stocks for quarreling with, and using contumacious language toward David Battle; Susannah Silence hath sat tied in a chair, before her door, with a cleft stick upon her tongue, for being too free in the use of that member; divers godly persons have connected themselves with the congregation, and two unworthy Achans been driven therefrom the one for incontinence, until he repent thereof, and the other for denying the just power of the elders."
But its rival, the canal, had inherited from the old Potomac Company the only earthly asset it possessed of any value the right of way up the Maryland shore. Five years of quarreling now ensued, and the contest, though it may not have seriously delayed either enterprise, aroused much bitterness and involved the usual train of lawsuits and injunctions.
One of the scoundrels wanted to kill him, and persuaded the others that it ought to be done; but they got to quarreling about how they should do it, and before they had their minds made up Grandison escaped, and, keeping his back steadily to the North Star, made his way, after suffering incredible hardships, back to the old plantation, back to his master, his friends, and his home.
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