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He wrote to the mistress to ask what was going on, and not receiving an answer, he started off without hesitation for Paris. He found Madame Desvarennes in a terrible state of excitement. The shares had just fallen a hundred and twenty francs. A panic had ensued. The affair was considered as absolutely lost, and the shareholders were aggravating matters by wanting to sell out at once.
All the chief characters in the book follow this line of absolutely consistent development, from Uncle Tom and Legree down to the most aggravating and contemptible of all, Marie St. Clare. The selfish and hysterical woman has never been so faithfully depicted by any other author.
"I wish old Dave was here to pitch him in the water," growled Tom. "Did you ever see anything so aggravating? He's following us. I can hear his boots. Don't take any notice. Let's go on fast as if he wasn't there." "I don't know that I can," grumbled Tom. "I feel alloverish like." "Feel how?" "As if I couldn't do as I liked.
To make it more aggravating, the current had slowed down, until the motion of their log was very languid. They were about 100 feet from the shore when they heard the second voice say: "Heah, I've got jest the right kind o' a dornick. Now jest keep yer eye peeled an' fixed on that center limb, an' yo'll hear it chunk when I plunk hit an' show hit's nothin' but a stick o' wood."
When he had disposed of the last lump and when he could no longer restrain his irritation, he broke out: "Of course you had to make BREAD, didn't you? Just because you know I'm starving." "It come tails, didn't it?" Jerry inquired, with aggravating pleasantness. "It ain't my fault you're starving, and you got all night to cook what YOU want after I'm done.
My cab was blocked in the theatre-going tide, and in neighbouring vehicles I had glimpses of fair faces above soft wraps and the profiles of moustached young men in white ties. They assumed an aggravating air of ownership of the blazing thoroughfare, the only gay and joyous spot in London.
If sighs could have delivered Hooper from his sorrows, there is no doubt that the accumulated millions of which he was delivered in that office, during the last five years, would have filled him with a species of semi-celestial bliss. At last, the hands of the clock reached the hour, the hour that was wont to evoke Ned's last sigh and set him free; but it was an aggravating clock.
The only emotion of any weight with him was the remembrance of and desire of avenging petty injuries, fancying and aggravating them when, in fact, none was intended.
M. Galpin turned to M. Daubigeon. "Then," he said to him, "the murder is the principal fact with which we have to do; and the fire is only an aggravating circumstance, the means which the criminal employed in order to succeed the better in perpetrating his crime." Then, returning to the count, he said, "Pray go on."
"I've been worryin' about you every minute ever since I called, and you was too sick to see me," said Mrs. Groody, "but I've been so busy I couldn't get away. It takes an awful lot of work to get such a big house to rights, and the women cleanin', and the servants are so aggravating that I am just run off my legs lookin' after them.
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