That was when he and Grandmamma quarrelled.

But they made it up again.
It was when I was so unhappy--I tried to help it, but I really could not--about my poor dear white china poodle (Jael broke him when she was dusting, and then she swept up his tail, though I have so begged her to keep the bits when she cleans our room, and breaks things; and now he never never can be mended, all the days of my life):--it was when I was crying about him, and Grandmamma told Dr.Brown how silly I was, to make me feel ashamed, that he said--"There are some tempers which, if they haven't enough people to love, will love things." Margery says he did not say _tempers_ but _temperaments_.

I know it began with temper, because it reminded me of Jael, who said "them tears is all temper, Miss Grace," which was very hard, because she knew--she knew quite well--it was about my poodle; and though accidents will happen, she need not have swept up his tail.
Margery is sure to be right.

She always it.

Besides, we looked it out in Johnson's Dictionary, which we are rather food of, though it is very heavy to lift.