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The chair squeaked on the floor as he turned, and he frowned, shivered a little, and kicked it irritably with his heel. From the cupboard he took a bottle of liqueur, and, pouring out a small glassful, drank it off eagerly. As he put the bottle away, he said again, in an abstracted fashion, "Kathleen!" Then, seating himself at the table, as if with an effort towards energy, he rang a bell.
"The shame would have been easier to realize, had I taken more than one stroke!" he answered irritably, still blocking the way on his great horse, still twisting at his mustache point, still looking down at her through eyes that blazed a dozen accumulated centuries' store of lawless ambition.
Pole, who had undertaken it, when first Squire of Brookfield, at the dictate of the ladies his daughters; so that, waiting with the book before him and his audience expectant, he lacked composure, spoke irritably in an under-breath of 'that woman, and asked twice whether she was coming or not. At last the clump of her feet was heard approaching. Mr.
She spoke irritably, for her anxiety about Abel's liver covered a deeper disquietude, and she was battling with all the obstinacy of the Hawtreys against the acknowledgment that the ailment she was preparing to dose with drugs was a simple malady of the soul. In her moral universe, sin and virtue were two separate entities, as easily distinguished on the surface as any other phenomena.
What did she mean by looking at her so, she wondered irritably? There followed a pause, and Lady Bassett began to fasten her many-buttoned gloves. "Of course, dear," she said gently, at length, "there is not the smallest necessity for you to see him. Indeed, if my advice were asked, I should recommend you not to do so; for after such a terrible experience as yours, one cannot be too circumspect.
He avoided personalities, as if they were a useless drain upon energy. His message was delivered at casual moments. One day he came up behind Isabelle in the ward, and nodding towards Molly, who was reading a story to one of the little girl patients, said: "So you have put daughter to some use?" "Yes!" Isabelle exclaimed irritably.
Still the tone was contemptuous, still the look frightened. "Such nonsense!" "I hope it is. He's not strong though, is he?" Miss Quisanté had often said the same, but now she received the remark irritably. "Strong! He's not a buffalo like some men, like Jimmy Benyon or, I suppose, that poor creature's husband she's always talking about.
"I should be better off in New York. I am dead broke." "You'd be dead broke in New York. Such fellers as you always is dead broke." "Do you mean to insult me, Mr. Bickford?" demanded Hogan irritably. "Oh, don't rare up, Hogan. It won't do no good. You'd ought to have more respect for me, considerin' I was your boss once." "I'd give something for that boy's luck." "Joe's luck?
Well, this tooth aches and I want it fixed or hauled out, one or t'other. I want the thing off my mind. . . . Don't TALK to me?" he added, irritably. "I know I'm a fool. And," with a peremptory wave of the hand, "don't you DARE say anything about DUTY!" He was back again two days later. His wife did not question him, but waited for him to speak.
"I do not know, monsieur." She had become another woman. I hated Benjamin Starling that his name could so instantly sap the life from her tone. "Please look at me," I begged irritably. "Mademoiselle, I think that I must ask you to tell me more, to tell me much more." She rose. "Is it necessary?" I bowed. "Else I should not ask it. Please sit, mademoiselle." She sat where my hand pointed.
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