Maggie would certainly have torn it off, if she had not been checked by the remembrance of her recent humiliation about her hair; as it was, she confined herself to fretting and twisting, and behaving peevishly about the card-houses which they were allowed to build till dinner, as a suitable amusement for boys and girls in their best clothes.
) "Oh—it means—you must think what you mean," said Ben, rather peevishly.
" inquired the Badger, rather peevishly.
