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It was a change of the sharpest from the angry, pallid man I had seen at Amersham Place. Ruddy to a fault, illuminated with vintages, crowned with his curls like Bacchus, he now stood before me for an instant, the perfect master of himself, smiling with airs of conscious popularity and insufferable condescension.
Every one has surely felt, some time or other in life, the insufferable annoyance of having his thoughts and reflections interfered with, and broken in upon by the vulgar impertinence and egotism of some "bore," who, mistaking your abstraction for attention and your despair for delight, inflicts upon you his whole life and adventures, when your own immediate destinies are perhaps vacillating in the scale.
A man of position appearing intoxicated will always make a disagreeable impression on us; but a drunken driver, sailor, or carter will only be a risible object. Jests that would be insufferable in a man of education amuse us in the mouth of the people. Of this kind are many of the scenes of Aristophanes, who unhappily sometimes exceeds this limit, and becomes absolutely condemnable.
What popguns of jokes have these ears tingled to hear let off at him, what asinine sentiments, what impotent conclusions, what spelling- book moralities, what adaptations of the orator's insufferable tediousness to the assumed level of his understanding!
The maiden tripped away, resolving at heart to heed the admonition, although she understood it very vaguely. Susannah knelt down upon the floor behind the sill, pressing both hands upon her breast lest she should cry aloud. "No! No! No!" she whispered, "I loved Ephraim, and it was because I left him that my heart closed up because in insufferable pride and impatience I left him.
And the minute you touched that spring and got a spark, your psychic waves had signaled, by wireless, the subconscious personality of some young man some insufferable pup who'll come from wherever he is at present from the world's end if need be and fall in love with you." Mr. Carr jumped ponderously up and down in pure fury; his daughter regarded him in calm consternation.
It is everybody's fault that the average home is stupid, dreary, insufferable, a place from which fathers fly to clubs, boys and girls to streets. But when we ask who can do most to remedy this, in whose hands it most lies to fight the fight against the tendencies to monotony, stupidity, and instability which are inherent in human nature, then the answer is clear and loud.
Then he slowly swung about, as if to return into that side-yard obscurity whence he had come; making clear by this pantomime that he reciprocally found the sight of her insufferable. In truth, he did; for he was not only her neighbour but her first-cousin as well, and a short month older, though taller than she tall beyond his years, taller than need be, in fact, and still in knickerbockers.
To me was your cry; but your poor, frail fellow creature was not there to save, or, failing that, to cast himself into the flames and perish with you, hating God." Thus, in my insufferable pain, I spoke aloud; alone in that solitary place, a bleeding fugitive in the dark night, looking up at the stars I cursed the Author of my being and called on Him to take back the abhorred gift of life.
If this were not so, O Bharata, this insufferable calamity would never have overtaken thee who art so undeserving of it, and these thy brothers of great energy! Neither in those days of prosperity nor in these days of thy adversity, thou, O Bharata, hath ever known anything so dear to thee as virtue, which thou hast even regarded as dearer to thee than life?
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