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'Tis she and your Percy who have robbed me of you, with their ill-natured stories. 'There is no ill-nature in them, and no one governs me, said Theodora. 'Then you hold fast by me, and come with me? 'I do. 'My thorough-going old Theodora! I knew they could not spoil you, say what they would! for she was by no means insensible of the triumph.
The young baronne did not attempt to conceal the fact that she had formerly been an actress herself not parading it, but referring to it quietly, if necessary, as a matter of course; an excellent method to disarm ill-natured tongues, which would surely have wagged vigorously had any mystery been made about it.
And he frowned and stammered, and said at first that I was disrespectful; but he told me afterwards that she was an Arian whom he was labouring to convert. So I thought I should like to see how this conversion went on, and I hid myself behind a bookcase. But it is a profound secret; I tell it you in confidence. 'I don't care to know it. Tell me about Vetranio. 'How ill-natured you are! Oh!
HE was a poor cripple with fingers twisted out of all useful shape, and lower limbs paralyzed so that he had to drag them after him wearily when he moved through the short distances that limited his sphere of locomotion a poor, unhappy, murmuring, and, at times, ill-natured cripple, eating the bread which a mother's hard labor procured for him.
Moreover, it saved him from harder labour, and shut the mouths of those ill-natured people who objected to drones, and had a tendency to reproach them, for was he not assiduously procuring for men and women a portion of that nourishment without which labour would be impossible?
'It is true at any rate, I suppose. 'Not that I know of. If my uncle and aunt choose to dispose of me, I cannot help it. 'It is well for girls to be disposed of sometimes. It saves them a world of trouble. 'I don't know what you mean by that, George; whether it is intended to be ill-natured. 'No, indeed. Why should I be ill-natured to you? I heartily wish you to be well and happy.
He had more usefully enjoined us to suffer ill-natured persons gladly.... I see that in a fit of absentmindedness I have strayed into the pulpit. I descend.
"What is it Evvie," she asked in the old coaxing way, seating herself beside him on the seat round the old Elm tree. "I was thinking of Grace," he replied "you can't think how her keeping away pains me." "I wouldn't think of it, if I were you, it is very mean and ill-natured of her, but she will get over her huff after a while."
And she went towards her and gave her a slight push, at which the child cried, but without turning away or making a step towards home. "Is that your sister?" asked Alice, going up to Maddie. "Yes; she's always running after me," returned Maddie, with an ill-natured frown. "Poor little thing!" said Alice. "I wish my sister Nellie had lived. I shouldn't be cross to her, I know.
He quotes the delightfully naïve reflection of Plutarch, who held that it was better to deny God than to calumniate Him, "for I had rather it should be said of me, that there was never such a man as Plutarch, than that it should be said that Plutarch was ill-natured, arbitrary, capricious, cruel, and inexorable."
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