You'd think it was the only baby in the wide world, the way she made a scene, and not a single one would listen to reason when I tried to explain.

They acted simply crazy, that's all." "Gee, gosh!" muttered the Wilbur twin.

This was indeed a splendid and desperate character, and he paid her the tribute of honest envy.

He wished he might have a cruel stepmother of his own, and so perhaps be raised to this eminence of infamy.

"I bet they did something with you!" he said.
The girl waved it aside with a gesture of repugnance, as if some things were too loathsome for telling.