They are always crying out about something.

There isn't really anything the matter." "No; but children's cries are so shrill; I am shivering all over.

How will my husband stand it?
No; this settles it, Mrs.Kurd.We shall go away.
This is the last drop." With these words Mrs.Ehrenreich hurried into her husband's room to see how he had borne the shock.

He was sitting at his table, with his ears stopped with cotton wool, and he did not hear his wife come in.

He had stuffed his ears when the first cry came, and had therefore escaped the rest of the hubbub.
"Oh, that is very unhealthy, it is so heating for the head;" cried Aunt Ninette, much distressed.