Turning suddenly, I fancied 1 detected an expression of real annoyance cross the usually placid: brow of the Number One Boy. The smile he generally wears is worth an extra five dollars 2 month to him, as he very well knows, so that when he discards it his employers feel justly aggrieved.
My own forehead snarled up into a frown at this cheating us of the service we were paying for,, and the recording buffet glass showed me a vicious glare so absurdly out of proportion to its cause that had to laugh at my own indignation. Having discovered myself in unwarranted—fretfulness once T might have been' on my guard against it for the rest of the day, but in spite of it I found that every minor worry was trebly trying. The household retinue seemed possessed by a legion of demons driving them to do everything in the wrongest manner possible and then to pout resentfully over all corrections. Family tempers were on edge all round. As: for the telephone, never had its insults and outrages reached such heights.
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