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If a crowning touch were needed to the happiness of Brian and Elizabeth, it was given by this marriage. The sting of remorse which had troubled them at times when they looked at Percival's gloomy face was quite withdrawn. Percival's face was seldom gloomy now. Angela seemed to have found the secret of soothing his irritable nerves, of calming his impatience.
And when he was gone, there came the weakest moments her life had yet known; a childish petulance, a tearful fretting, an irritable misery of which she was ashamed. She went to her room to suffer in silence, and often to read through that packet of his letters, till the night was far spent. It had cost her much to leave London.
On the contrary, from day to day I had become more irritable at the sight, and my conscience swelled nightly within me at the thought that I had lacked the courage to protest.
These new sensations mastered her completely; she helped her father mechanically, without noticing peaches, caterpillars or labourers, or how rapidly the time was passing. It was almost the same with Yegor Semyonitch. He worked from morning till night, was always in a hurry, was irritable, and flew into rages, but all of this was in a sort of spellbound dream.
Lincoln was powerful in argument, always seizing the strong points, and demonstrating his propositions with a clearness and logic approaching the certainty of mathematics. He had, in wit and humor, a great advantage over Douglas. Then he had the better temper; he was always good humored, while Douglas, when hard pressed, was sometimes irritable.
She was growing irritable under her dread. Like Elisha, she longed to silence them with the answer: "I know it; hold ye your peace." The middle of June had passed, the fourth week of the voyage had begun, and now any day, any hour, might bring news. Deena's anxiety had made such inroads into her health that her father took alarm and called in her old friend Dr.
Jealousy, a continual and irritable curiosity there is no Paul Pry like your blind man a querulous claim upon your attention these are my special dangers." And Ethne laughed gently in contradiction of his argument. "Well, perhaps one may hold them off," he acknowledged, "but they are to be considered. I have considered them. I am not speaking to you without thought.
I never have drunk anything like it, soft, velvety, perfumed, delicious. I could hardly take away my lips from the cup, and she had hardly left the room when Rivet came in. He seemed nervous and irritable, like a man who had not slept, and he said to me crossly: "'If you go on like this you will end by spoiling the affair of that pig of a Morin! "At eight o'clock the aunt arrived.
A voice, thin and irritable, shouted 'Whoa! and the man in turn was briefly outlined against the pale sky as he scrambled up the ridge. He was a little man and plainly weary; he walked as though his boots hurt him; he carried a wide, new hat in one hand; the skin was peeling from his blistered face. From his other hand trailed a big handkerchief. He was perhaps fifty or sixty.
The tutor came, though, five minutes later, and, meeting his man, exclaimed with animation: "Better news, Brigley." "No, sir," said Jerry, shaking his head. "Worse much worse!" "How dare you, sir?" cried the tutor, irritable from a sleepless night. "I tell you the news is better, and we have hopes." "And I tell you, sir, that the news is worse." Mr Draycott stared at his man, and began to frown.
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