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I have thought over things in this light, and I have thought 'em over in that light; and I'd rather incline to believe that she got acquainted with some stranger, poor dear! than that it was anybody known to us. Robin is in doubt; he has had some cause given him to suspect Mr. John Massingbird, but he is not sure, and it's that doubt, I say, that worrits him."
John Thresher wagered I would be a man before either of them reached that goal. But whenever he spoke he suffered correction on account of his English. 'More than his eating and his drinking, that child's father worrits about his learning to speak the language of a British gentleman, Mrs. Waddy exclaimed. 'Before that child your h's must be like the panting of an engine to please his father.
'Let him get married, and have done with it, she said to her husband. 'I shall have no peace till he does. He worrits my life out. 'He'll worrit you a good deal more afterwards, if I'm not mistook, remarked Jim, with a dry chuckle. But an unforeseen difficulty presented itself. Totty positively declined to visit Mrs. Poole at present.
John Thresher wagered I would be a man before either of them reached that goal. But whenever he spoke he suffered correction on account of his English. 'More than his eating and his drinking, that child's father worrits about his learning to speak the language of a British gentleman, Mrs. Waddy exclaimed. 'Before that child your h's must be like the panting of an engine to please his father.
I'm that obliged I " "Say," broke in the loafer, "that sort o' talk sort o' worrits my brain. Cut it out." Then he grinned. "Y'see, I ain't used to thinkin' hard. It's mostly in the natur' o' work, an' well, work an' me ain't been friends for years." But Scipio was devouring the elaborated information Sunny had so laboriously set out.
Standing stiffly erect behind Ruth's chair, Nurse Smith repeated all that the doctor and Mrs Clarkson had said. "And I think myself, sir," she added, "that Miss Ruth will be all the better of a cheerful change. She worrits herself with fancies." Ruth looked earnestly up at her father's face, but said nothing. "Worries herself?" repeated Mr Lorimer, with a puzzled frown.
Nobbut what theer's soomat endearin i' these yoong flibberties yo conno let em want for owt bit it's the use of em worrits me above a bit." Certainly all that old Daffady could do to supply the girl's wants was done.
"I wish you could make up your mind to say what you want in plain words," interrupted Mat. "I'm one of your rough-handed, thick-headed sort, I am. I'm not gentleman enough to understand parlarver. It don't do me no good: it only worrits me into a perspiration." And Mat, shaking down his shirt-sleeve, drew it several times across his forehead, as a proof of the truth of his last assertion.
Sometimes I try to persuade her; but if she is in a good temper she says she has got a bone in her leg, and if she isn't she says that when little boys can't amuse themselves it's a sure and certain sign they've got "the worrits," and the sooner they are put to bed with a Gregory's powder "the better for themselves and every one else."
"That's a sharp little brat of the miller's," said he, alluding to Jan. "And he ain't much like the others. Old-fashioned, too. Children mostly likes the gay picters, and worrits their mothers for 'em, bless 'em! But he picked out an ancient-looking thing, came from a bankrupt pawnshop, my dear, in a lot. I almost think I let it go too cheap; but that's my failing.
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