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“These are difficulties which you must settle for yourself. Chuse your own degree of crossness. I shall press you no more.”

She said Grenfell had "always been a bad tempered place and for some reason that general crossness has lingered and is stoked by various individuals and their agendas".

“Gossip suggests adenoidal radio anarchist Howard Stern was involved. Britney reacts with predictable crossness. ‘It’s a disgusting offer,’ she told one newspaper.

I decided it would do to convey a mixture of can-you-believe-it crossness and wrenching disappointment, selected it, added zilch and pressed send.

To meet criticism with kindness, crossness with geniality, insult with courtesy, and injury with charity is the way to conquer the world.