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It was a fine, sunny day, bright but cool, with a fresh and stiffening west wind ripping the waters of the harbor. The week had been one of unusual trial, for Felix was sick, and even more than ordinarily fretful and exacting; and weary of writing and of teaching so constantly, the governess enjoyed the brief season of emancipation. Mr.
He had long, fretful monologues on the vanity of diamond-making, if accompanied with "pestering" by "interlopers;" on the wickedness of concealment and conspiracy, and their effects on charcoal-burning; on the nurturing of spies and "adders" in the family circle, and on the seditiousness of dark and mysterious councils in which a gray-haired father was left out.
He did not stop at trifles, but went bravely on till everybody came for miles to look at him and get him to write something funny in their autograph albums. It was not an unusual thing for Galileo to get up in the morning, after a wearisome night with a fretful, new-born star, to find his front yard full of albums.
It was a steady stream of din, from which the ear picked out first one thread and then another; there was the intermittent snorting, panting, and seething of the steam engines, the suck and thud of their pistons, the dull beat on the air as the spokes of the great driving-wheels came round, a note the leather straps made as they ran tighter and looser, and a fretful tumult from the dynamos; and over all, sometimes inaudible, as the ear tired of it, and then creeping back upon the senses again, was this trombone note of the big machine.
Sophy's presence seemed to stir up instincts of the old wrangling habits, and the invalid was always fretful when left to her, so that to her own exceeding distress she was kept almost entirely out of the sick room.
Behind the black hill the sun had shouldered up, molten, and the shadow of Vessons, standing monkey-like on the lowest bar of the gate, lay on the stretch of wet clover behind him a purple, elfin creature, gifted with a prehensile dignity. The cows did not appear after his first call. He lifted his head and called again in a high plaintive tone, as one reasons with a fretful child.
He has the temper of a black elf." "He does not look to be a cooing dove," the trader assented. "But how came it that he was not slain for this? I have heard that Gilli is a fretful man." The Dane snorted. "More than anything else he is greedy for property, and his wife Bertha advised him not to lose the price he had paid.
'By Jove, I did! He stood aside, with an outstretched hand, and motioned Bommaney to examine the contents of the safe. There was a parchment there, there were half a dozen bundles of documents tied in pink tape and docketed; but there were no bank-notes. 'You know, said Bommaney, with a fretful wail, 'I must have left them here; I couldn't have left them anywhere else. I put it to you could I?
He said, 'I am disappointed, to be sure; but it is not a great disappointment. I wondered to see him bear, with a philosophical calmness, what would have made most people peevish and fretful.
It was reserved for Sheridan to give vitality to this form of dramatic humor, and to invest even his satirical portraits as in the instance of Sir Fretful Plagiary, which, it is well known, was designed for Cumberland with a generic character, which, without weakening the particular resemblance, makes them representatives for ever of the whole class to which the original belonged.
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