Just—William

"Well," Robert spoke with an air of super-human patience, "she's a Miss Cannon and she's staying with the Clives and I met her out with Mrs. Clive this morning and she introduce...

They had engaged in mortal combat with one another, they had cooked strange ingredients over a smoking and reluctant flame with a fine disregard of culinary conventions, they ha...

"Bottled cherry yourself!" he said indignantly. "She can't help having red hair, can she? No more'n you can help havin'--havin'----" his eye wandered speculatively over the youn...

William's father carefully placed the bow and arrow at the back of the library cupboard, then closed the cupboard door and locked it in grim silence. William's eyes, large, repr...

It all began with William's aunt, who was in a good temper that morning, and gave him a shilling for posting a letter for her and carrying her parcels from the grocer's.

William went whistling down the street, his hands in his pockets. William's whistle was more penetrating than melodious. Sensitive people fled shuddering at the sound. The propr...

"Well, I can't unner_stand_ any of it. It's enough to make anyone look stupid when he can't unner_stand_ any of it. I can't think why people go on givin' people bits of money fo...

It was a half-holiday and William was in his bedroom making careful preparations for the afternoon. On the mantel-piece stood in readiness half a cake (the result of a successfu...

William was feeling embittered with life in general. He was passing through one of his not infrequent periods of unpopularity. The climax had come with the gift of sixpence best...

Mrs. Brown, her aunt and hostess, looked across the tea-table at her younger son, who was devouring iced cake with that disregard for consequences which is the mark of youth.

"I haven't. I haven't done anything what you said I'd not to. It was 'Lions an' Tamers' what you said I'd not to play. Well, I've not played 'Lions an' Tamers,' not since you sa...

"And I heard her say to him----" she was saying. She broke off with the sigh of a patient martyr as William came in. He sat down and glared at her. She exchanged a glance of res...