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Over and over again she asked herself the question, but she never found any answer thereto; and she was fain to believe her father's easy-going verdict: "There's no accounting for your mother's tantrums; they've got to be visited on somebody." She wondered what would happen when she was no longer at hand to act as scapegoat, and yet it seemed to her that her mother longed to be rid of her.
He could even throw the right shade of disgust into it. "Is this another one of your tantrums, Elizabeth? By heavens, I'm growing tired of 'em. You continually throw in my face that you hold the strings of the purse. Well, tie them up as far as I'm concerned. I won't whine. I'd rather have that happen than be tyrannized over any longer." She was much shaken.
Miss Betsy mused awhile, with an unusual gravity on her long face. "I dunno," she remarked, at length; "I've noticed that some men have their vapors and tantrums, jist as some women have, and Gilbert's of an age to well, Mary, has the thought of his marryin' ever come into your head?" "No!" exclaimed Mary Potter, with almost a frightened air. "I'll be bound!
Now they were at the top of the hill, and the horse broke into tantrums again; requiring all of Master Joseph's skill to prevent his toppling himself and his two riders over one of the many boulders that obstructed the road. "If you do not hold on to me more tightly, Sister Ann, you will be thrown off," said Master Joseph, putting back his right hand to steady her.
"They say she's been no better all her life," replied the other; "a rat would not live in the house with her: at last, in one of her tantrums, she nearly murdered old Spinney, the clerk at Overton. The report went out that he was dead; and conscience, I suppose, or summut of that kind, run away with her senses." "Oh, he warn't killed then?"
India is going through an inevitable stage of political transition, and we must not hastily judge her peoples for the most part so gallant, so kindly, so law-abiding, so lovable by the passing tantrums of political puberty. As things stand at present, there is a remarkable lull. It would be futile to predict whether it will last.
When the cabman demanded whether he should knock, he could not answer; and when the maid-servant at the door greeted him, he almost ran away. "Who's at home?" said he, asking the question in a very low voice. "There's missus," said the girl, "and Miss Spruce, and Mrs Lupex. He's away somewhere, in his tantrums again; and there's Mr " "Is Miss Roper here?" he said, still whispering. "Oh, yes!
He rested one hand, not unkindly, upon my arm, and his tone instantly changed from that of command to generous courtesy. "You will accompany me, and permit me to advise you, for your own sake, to be as civil as possible in your answers to-night, for the 'old man' is in one of his tantrums."
That's just letting her down easy. Miss North's dead tired of her, herself." "Who's going to take her place?" "Miss North didn't take us into her confidence," Mary said flippantly. "But I shouldn't wonder if Joy Cross substituted until they get somebody. Joy's a whiz in German. She's had us two or three times lately when Fraulein was having one of her tantrums beg pardon, nervous break-ups."
There was a great deal of joking about the unpopular young recluse who, as the cook said, "had found his master, and good for him." The servants' hall had been very tired of the tantrums, and the butler, who was a man with a family, had more than once expressed his opinion that the invalid would be all the better "for a good hiding."
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