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"Is her mother living?" "Oh no," said Katie irritably, "certainly not. Her mother has been dead five years." Then, looking into the dreamy distance and drawing it out as though she loved it: "Her mother was a great musician." "I shan't like her," announced Wayne decisively; "she is probably exotic and self-conscious and supercilious, and not at all a comfortable person to have about.
"Come here," she said; "I want to speak to you." I noticed, as I approached, that her pretty face was clouded and anxious. She pushed the cat irritably off her shoulder; she welcomed me with only the faint reflection of her bright customary smile. "I have seen John Jago," she said. "He has been hinting at something which he says happened under your bedroom window this morning.
"What the devil's the matter with the fool?" demanded Holden irritably. "He knows we're coming! Why doesn't he stand still or come to meet us?" Cochrane shrugged. That thought was disturbing him too. They pressed forward, and suddenly Holden exclaimed. "That looks like a man! Two men!" Cochrane caught the barest glimpse of something running about, far ahead. It looked like naked human flesh.
'And then what shall I do with her? thought the sister, irritably, recoiling from a sudden vision of Nelly in sorrow, which seemed to threaten her own life with even greater dislocation than had happened to it already. 'I must have my time to myself! freedom for what I want' she thought to herself, impatiently, 'I can't be always looking after her.
"Ah, you've got the laugh of me," said Pelle. "In a moment of depression you've got your book-learning to help you along. But we other chaps can just sit where we are and kick our heels." Morten turned to him hastily. "That's the usual complaint!" he cried irritably. "A man spits on his own class and wants to get into another one. But that's not the point at stake, damn it all!
Auntie says the best time for the glove counter is about twelve-thirty, when the crowd is smallest." "Yes," mumbled Truesdale, irritably; "and lunch at one." Or: "They are going to let me go alone to Modjeska tomorrow afternoon in the street-car; just think of it! I think I shall ask for a seat in the last row I am so timid about fires." Sometimes she would add "destroy this," or, "burn this."
"I wish you would not look through those things until your mother gets back, Betty," Polly said rather irritably. But both her sister and friend glanced up at her in surprise. "What is the possible harm? Mother couldn't mind. There is certainly no reason why I should not look at my own clothes or at Dick's. It's queer I never happen to have seen them before."
We're too far from the coast for an air-raid. . . . And, if you had one, no one would ever talk about anything else for the rest of his life; it would be like the Famine in Ireland or the Wesley descent on Cornwall." A maid, squeezing through the inadequate fairway behind the chairs, bumped Eric's back and made him spill his wine. "This place gets on my nerves!" he added irritably.
Curtis's anxiety had attached to all that was done for Rachel. It was not for nothing that he had spent a year upon the sofa in the irritably sensitive state of nerves that Bessie had described; and when he could speak to Grace alone, he gave her a lecture on those little refinements of unobtrusive care, that more demonstrative ailments had not availed to inculcate, and which Mrs.
The first verse of this poem runs: Reticulations creep upon the slack stream's face When the wind skims irritably past. The current clucks smartly into each hollow place That years of flood have scrabbled in the pier's sodden base; The floating-lily leaves rot fast. One could make as good music as that out of a milk-cart. One would accept such musicless verse only from a man of genius.
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