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This is so very sudden! Awful idiot? Let me see. Her absurd gravity was even more exasperating than her smile. Lushington threw away his cigarette angrily. 'You know what I mean, he cried, getting red again. 'Don't be horrid! 'Then don't be silly, retorted Margaret. 'There! I knew you thought so! 'Perhaps I do, sometimes, the girl answered, more seriously. 'But I don't mind it at all.
"I don't say it," Raven asserted. "We're not going to the dogs. We've gone. We're there. We're the dogs ourselves, and nothing worse could happen to a criminal from Mars, for example than to be sent to us. We ought to be the convict colony of the universe." "Don't," said Dick, with an affectionate sweetness as exasperating as it was moving. "It only excites you. Come on out and have a tramp.
Do you know that you're a nuisance, Cecil? 'Because I love you? he said, trying to look into her sly Japanese eyes. She avoided his glance. 'Because you keep on bothering. Always writing, always telephoning, always calling! As soon as I've disposed of one invitation or excuse to meet, you invent another. But this last idea is quite too exasperating. She spoke more gently.
Moreover, she was very busy from the very top to the very bottom of the house, which she persisted in running alone because she couldn’t make up her mind to part with a few francs every month to a servant. It seemed to me that I was no longer such a favourite with her as I used to be. That, strange to say, was exasperating, too.
Individual wild-animal nuisances can occasionally become so exasperating as to justify the use of the gun, when scarecrows fail; but in all such circumstances the greatest judgment, and much forbearance also, is desirable and necessary.
To servants, people who knew their proper place, and retainers generally, with legitimate claims to her consideration, she was all kindly courtesy, and they were devoted to her; but she met the aspiring parvenu, seeking her acquaintance on false pretences of equality, with that disdainful civility which is more exasperating than positive rudeness because a lady is only rude to her equals.
This did not fail to be observed by the natives, to whom he was an object of much curiosity, and to whom his presence among the Kendalls was a matter of wide and varied conjecture. The younger element especially showed an undisguised interest in all that he did, whispering and laughing among themselves in a way which, to Checkers, was most exasperating.
"I can run it," was the reply. "Yes, you can!" "I own one," insisted Jack. "Yes, an' you hire a man to run it!" Jimmie grinned. "I don't believe you can run a hand cultivator!" "Of course not!" laughed Jack. "But I can operate a motor boat," he added. "You can?" demanded Jimmie, with an exasperating grin. "Then perhaps you can tell me if the motor boat we're goin' to have has pneumatic brakes?"
But he uncle Rutherford said nothing more at present; and we were all left in ignorance as to what benevolent plan tending Jim-wise he might be pondering. For a man otherwise so charming and considerate, uncle Rutherford had the most exasperating way of exciting one's curiosity and interest to the verge of distraction, and then calmly ignoring them.
Tell me how you came to be changed into a cock, and what each of your lives was like. Cock. Very well; and I may remark, by way of preface, that of all the lives I have ever known none was happier than yours. Mi. Than mine? Exasperating fowl! All I say is, may you have one like it! Now then: begin from Euphorbus, and tell me how you came to be Pythagoras, and so on, down to the cock.
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