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"It is easier to come," I answered irritably, "than to know that you sit here making yourself miserable because I don't." "Have I ever fretted you about coming, Esmerald? I did not know it." "It would be easier if you did fret!" I cried crossly. "I'd rather you'd say a thing than look it. Any man would."
This tidings also was deemed good by all, save it might be by Atra, who, as Birdalone deemed, pined and fretted herself at the delay, and would fain that, one way or other, all were over.
If she fretted them, as she undoubtedly must, they gave no sign of it, and were outwardly all affectionate consideration. "Why, where is your little boy gone? I wanted to see him," said Mrs. Watson, as soon as she was safely out of the carriage.
John groaned and fretted over the writhings of the "Herald's" headless fortnight, but, perusing the issues produced under the domination of H. Fisbee, he started now and then, and chuckled at some shrewd felicities of management, or stared, puzzled, over an oddity, but came to a feeling of vast relief; and, when the question of H. Fisbee's salary was settled and the tenancy assured, he sank into a repose of mind.
Henry imbibed his mother's spirit, and chafed and fretted under wrongs for which he could obtain no redress. Ferdinand and Isabella could not be annoyed even by any force which feeble Navarre could raise.
"How long, how long!" was my cry, as I walked out ankle-deep in the dust to see the sun, like a ball of blood, sink behind the hills on that February evening. Where Ignorance is Bliss, 'Tis Folly to be Wise When by myself, I fretted so constantly that the traces it left upon me became evident even to the dull comprehension of Mrs M'Swat.
Give her food and shelter; charm away the bitter flames that consume her life and soul; drop tears and alms together into the little wasted hand that pleads with dumb eloquence for its possessor; and even while ye pity and protect, revere that fretted mark of the Crown that still consecrates to the awful solitude of sorrow Maya, the Child of the Kingdom!
But my chief mate was uncompromising in his attitude. "Luck, you call it, sir! Ay our usual luck. The sort of luck to thank God it's no worse!" And so he fretted through the dark hours, while I drew on my fund of philosophy. Ah, but it was an exasperating, weary, endless night, to be lying at anchor close under that black coast! The agitated water made snarling sounds all round the ship.
Yet of all my acquaintances Thomas worried and fretted over what he construed neglects or acts of favoritism more than any other. At that time he was much worried by what he supposed was injustice in the promotion of General Sheridan, and still more that General Meade should have an Eastern station, which compelled him to remain at Nashville or go to the Pacific.
But poor Sidney could not bear to be thus left alone to lose sight of his brother from daybreak till bed-time to have no one to amuse him; he fretted and pined away: all the little inconsiderate selfishness, uneradicated from his breast by his sufferings, broke out the more, the more he felt that he was the first object on earth to Philip.
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