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"Shall I show you some of my pets? You may not have another opportunity." "I do not understand birds." "Will you not look at the new one caught only to-day?" "Ah, the aristocrat! I had forgotten her. Where is she caged?" "Yonder, a small cage, and with three others not of her breed. She does not sing, citizen, she scolds.
"No! he declares that it is the language of barbarians and bear-catchers; scolds about us, and despises us, and yet knows as little of us as the man in the moon. He adores his Voltaire. Old Fritz knows the French poet by heart, but Lessing he knows nothing of. He abuses 'Goetz von Berlichingen, and 'Werther's Sorrows." "Oh! I know it all I know the king's adjutant-general, von Siedlitz.
Johnny, accordingly, soon repeats it, "Mother! mother! what makes the rainbow?" At length her attention is forced to the subject, and she either tells Johnny that she can't explain it to him that he is not old enough to understand it; or, perhaps, scolds him for interrupting her with so many teasing questions.
In the country the nights are so black; the birds at dawn too noisy; and Nature when she storms and scolds, is a fish-wife. Possibly you can learn to endure it all but will the game be worth the candle? Without true fondness for outdoors and an inner urge for a measure of seclusion, life in the country is drear. Don't attempt it.
Such nice bits as those good old gentlemen have left for you! There is no quarrelling with a man who prefers broken victuals. That's what the rougher sort will say; and then, where one scolds, ten will laugh. But, mind you, I don't either scold or laugh. I don't feel sure that you could very well have helped doing what you will soon do.
I have had high wages for some years, and since I and Heloise came together, I have not wasted a sous out of doors, except in the way of public duty, such as making converts at the Jean Jacques and elsewhere; a glass of beer and a pipe don't cost much. And Heloise is such a house-wife, so thrifty, scolds me if I buy her a ribbon, poor love!
"And does your mother let him beat you, poverina? You said you were afraid of being beaten." "Ah, my mother herself scolds me: she loves my young sister better, and thinks I don't do work enough. And the men in the Mercato laugh at me and make fun of me. Nobody ever kissed me and spoke to me as you do; just as I talk to my little black-faced kid, because I'm very fond of it."
When I come to think of it," said the Marionette to himself, as he once more set out on his journey, "we boys are really very unlucky. Everybody scolds us, everybody gives us advice, everybody warns us. If we were to allow it, everyone would try to be father and mother to us; everyone, even the Talking Cricket. Take me, for example.
Like an equitable judge he pardoned neither of us; he did not forgive himself and he dared not condemn me. Since this sad time of desertion and sorrow, into which the new state of things had brought me, MM. de Mortemart, de Nevers, and de Vivonne had been glad to avoid me. They found my humour altered, and I admit that a woman who sulks, scolds, or complains is not very attractive company.
At nine o'clock he is in the bosom of his family, flings a jest to his wife, snatches a loud kiss from her, gulps down a cup of coffee, or scolds his children. At a quarter to ten he puts in an appearance at the Mairie.
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