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Ibsen was suspicious, the Norwegians of that generation were constitutionally stiff and reserved; long years among Southern races had accustomed him to a plenitude in gesture and emphasis. He suffered, all the brief time he was in Norway, from an intolerable malaise. Ten years afterwards, in writing to Björnson, the discomfort of that experience was still unallayed.
Then, how much does the disposition of every human being depend upon their innate constitution and their early surroundings; the comfort or discomfort of the homes in which they have been brought up; their inherited characteristics; and the examples, good or bad, to which they have been exposed through life! Regard for such considerations should teach charity and forbearance to all men.
She lay in the great chamber that gave upon the gallery above the hall whence, on either side, she could hear whether or no the maids were at their business which was a comfort to her if a discomfort to them. And now that her lord was in Derby, she lay here all alone.
Upton had more and more come to look forward to them with an inward tremor of uncertainty and discomfort. For, under everything, above everything, was the fact, and she felt herself now to be looking it hard in the face, that Imogen had always, obviously, emphatically, been fondest of her father. It had been from the child's earliest days, this more than fondness, this placid partizanship.
"You had better get below again, if you don't want the missis to see you," said the mate. "She's gettin' up nasty temper she's in too." The skipper went forward grumbling. "Send down a good breakfast, George," said he. To his great discomfort the mate suddenly gave a low whistle, and regarded him with a look of blank dismay. "Good gracious!" he cried, "I forgot all about it.
They had been at Brighton already nearly a month, when a new circumstance was added to her discomfort. As she walked with her mother one day, they met their acquaintance, Mr. Budge. This gentleman dined with them that evening at Mrs. Enderby's invitation, and persuaded the latter to join a party he had made up for an excursion on the following day. Maud excused herself. She did not like Mr.
The magistrate was in the act of turning to bid his men beat the door in, when once more the voice came. "I'll tell the mistress, sir.... She's a-bed." His discomfort grew on him as he waited, staring out at the fast yellowing sky. He must do his best to make it as little offensive as he could. He turned to his men.
Onward, ever onward; a flying visit to Yokohama, and then back home again, or the nearest approach to home that this part of the world affords for Englishmen. But how changed is Yokohama now! Dirty, wet, cold, and dreary, and all the other adjectives by which discomfort is usually interpreted. During our stay our negro troupe came prominently before the public.
A sick qualm of self-contempt shook Marise. For, high and clear above everything else, there had come into her mind a quick discomfort at the contrast between her appearance and that of Eugenia. July 20. The heat was appalling even early in the morning, right after breakfast.
As we were within the rainy belt, which extends up to 17° North, visitations of that sort during the summer were to be expected. The troops bore the discomfort of cold and wet clothes uncomplainingly, waiting for daybreak, and the tardy sun, to get dry and warm. Bugle calls were a work of supererogation on the morning of Wednesday, 24th August, everybody having been astir long before réveille.
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