"In fact, since I ask for nothing but a little give-and-take, it's annoying when people spoil my sport.

Dowthwaite made himself unpleasant about his broken wall, the Askews turned the grouse back, and then I found the Allerby cottage children, ransacking Redmire Wood when the pheasants were going to roost." Grace, who stood close by with Thorn, indicated the smooth gravel and the low, wide-topped wall on which red geraniums grew.
"This," she said, "is a great improvement on the old grass bank.

The wide steps and broad slate coping have an artistic effect.

However, you can't often get the things you like without paying." "Very true, but rather trite," Osborn agreed.

"I don't see how it applies." "Well, I'm really sympathetic about your spoiled day, but it looks as if all your disappointments sprang from the same cause." "Ah!" said Osborn, sharply; "I suppose you mean the coal yards' lease ?" "I think I mean Bell's greediness.