21/43 I will not have you snapping at your best friend and mine. If you are excited, you had better retire to your own room and compose yourself. I hate a clamor." Rosa made a wry face at this rebuke, and then began to cry quietly. "Pray don't scold her, sir," said he, ready to snivel himself. "She meant nothing unkind: it is only her pretty sprightly way; and she did not really imagine a love so reverent as mine"-- "Don't YOU interfere between my father and me," said this reasonable young lady, now in an ungovernable state of feminine irritability. |