Rosy, who had been banished to the kitchen for misbehavior, had been conducting a series of delicate experiments, with disastrous results.
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After several impulses to go back and beat him, to follow him to school and expose him to the teacher, to write to his mother and tell her of his misbehavior, Westover had decided to do nothing.
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Mothers are everywhere she-apes, who with pleasure let themselves be tormented to death by their children, who repay them badly enough, and the wives generally open their ears wide if any one can tell them of some misbehavior of their husbands!
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Georg Ebers