He's always cross.

I've said a dozen times I wouldn't have him down here just before dinner." Then a sign was made to the nurse, and she walked off with her burden.

It was a poor, rickety, unalluring bairn, but it was all that Lady Clavering had, and she would fain have been allowed to show it to her relatives, as other mothers are allowed to do.
"Hugh," said his wife, "shall I introduce you to Miss Burton ?" Then Sir Hugh came forward and shook hands with his new guest, with some sort of apology for his remissness, while Harry stood by, glowering at him, with offence in his eye.

"My father is right," he had said to himself when his cousin failed to notice Florence on her first entrance into the room; "he is impertinent as well as disagreeable.

I don't care for quarrels in the parish, and so I shall let him know." "Upon my word she's a doosed good-looking little thing," said Archie, coming up to him, after having also shaken hands with her; "doosed good-looking, I call her." "I'm glad you think so," said Harry, dryly.
"Let's see; where was it you picked her up?
I did hear, but I forget." "I picked her up, as you call it, at Stratton, where her father lives." "Oh, yes; I know.