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The Governor was cross, and sorry, and presently crosser. His jokes about Lin's marriage came back to him and put him in a rage with the departed fool. "Yes, about eight. Or six," said his Excellency, justifying himself by the past. For he had first known Lin, the boy of nineteen, supreme in length of limb and recklessness, breaking horses and feeling for an early mustache.
Its awful lonesome here without you but grate fun in school. Jane andrews is crosser than you. I scared mrs. lynde with a jacky lantern last nite. She was offel mad and she was mad cause I chased her old rooster round the yard till he fell down ded. I didn't mean to make him fall down ded.
"Stay," said Ethel, "if the ill-temper was in you, you would only be the crosser for being indulged at least, so books say. And I am sure myself that it is not whether things are disagreeable or not, but whether one's will is with them, that signifies." "I don't quite understand."
And one morning he was crosser and surlier than ever, because he had been troubled for several days with a matter which he had already decided, but which many people wished to have reversed. A man, found guilty of a crime, had been imprisoned, and there were those who, convinced of his penitence and knowing that his family needed his support, earnestly sought his pardon.
But the red-headed Cloherty was crosser than any of them, and what the devil was it to him what Larry's politics or his matrimonial intentions were? Confound Cloherty, anyway! He was a sufficiently common object of the Cluhir scene and infernally common at that. Hardly a day that you didn't meet him loafing about the town. Larry hadn't the smallest wish to talk to Cloherty.
"Oh, I don't know. She's just a beast " "Of course you know. Don't be silly." "Well, she said I'd been smoking, and I said I hadn't " "Had you? You look awfully green." "Yes, I had." "What's the good of telling lies?" "It's no good telling the truth," Robert answered stolidly. "They only get crosser than ever. She hadn't any right to hit me. She's not even a relation." "She's your step-mother."
When he went back to London he would have to have somebody else. Perhaps he would tell her that, after thinking it over, he had found he didn't want her. Then to-day would be the end of it. If she looked up she would see him. She knew what she would see: the fine, cross upper lip lifted backwards by the moustache, the small grizzled brown moustache, turned up, that made it look crosser.
"He won't give us any more beastly wishes to-day," said Jane flatly. "He gets crosser and crosser every time we see him. I believe he hates having to give wishes." Anthea had been shaking her head gloomily now she stopped shaking it so suddenly that it really looked as though she were pricking up her ears. "What is it?" asked Jane. "Oh, have you thought of something?"
The other shades the eyes; for, even in this statue of him, Leif Ericsson is still the crosser of far seas, the finder of strange lands, the sleepless watcher forever gazing from beneath his shadowed brows into the golden west. Back at the fjord, what happened to Edith Fairhair while Ulf was on the ocean? Apparently nothing worth recording.
When the train put us down at Villeneuve, among railway people as indifferent as our own at country stations, and much crosser and more snubbing, the demand for grapes began with the party who remained with the baggage, while a party of the second part went off to find the pension where we were to pass the next three months.
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