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Opposition irritates them, and humouring such dreadful propensities submissively only confirms them. The deterioration of Colonel Colquhoun had certainly been delayed by the arrangement which in honour bound him to treat Evadne as a young lady, and not as a wife; but that it should set in eventually, was inevitable.
No; but it is quite incomprehensible that you cannot understand how hateful he is to me, how he irritates me. You always seem to like him, and you shake hands with him cordially. Men are very surprising at times." "One must know how to dissimulate, my dear." "It is no question of dissimulation, but of feeling.
Clotilde remained for a moment absorbed in thought, her gaze lost in vacancy. Then she said in an undertone, as if speaking to herself: "It is true, he cannot know everything. There is always something else below. That is what irritates me; that is what makes us quarrel: for I cannot, like him, put the mystery aside. I am troubled by it, so much so that I suffer cruelly.
Nor had such unlimited opportunities ever before been in her grasp. "Yes, that was droll," she repeated. Bill snorted. "Droll? Perhaps," he said. "Blatant ignorance, coupled with a desire to appear the possessor of culture, is sometimes amusing. But as a general thing it simply irritates." "You're hard to please," she replied.
Elinor's thanks followed this speech with grateful earnestness; attended too with the assurance of her expecting material advantage to Marianne, from the communication of what had passed. "I have been more pained," said she, "by her endeavors to acquit him than by all the rest; for it irritates her mind more than the most perfect conviction of his unworthiness can do.
'I really think I can boast of having the most selfish mother in England. Hugh had his own opinion concerning Mrs. Ascott Larkfield, but would not have ventured to phrase it. 'How's that? 'I never knew anyone who succeeded so well in thinking steadily and exclusively of herself. It irritates me to see her since this affair; I shan't go again.
The only objectionable thing about Clarrie was her long hair. She wore a black frock and looked very breakable. Nothing irritates a man so much. Andrew gathered her passionately in his arms, while a pained, puzzled expression struggled to reach his face. Then he replaced her roughly on the ground and left her. It was impossible to say whether they were engaged.
Burenin says that it does not, and that I waste my time on trifles; the Academy has given me a prize. The devil himself could not make head or tail of it. Write for the sake of money? But I never have any money, and not being used to having it I am almost indifferent to it. For the sake of money I work apathetically. Write for the sake of praise? But praise merely irritates me.
He began to smile, and said quietly: "It's the north wind." "The north wind," exclaimed Paganel; "what's the north wind to do with it?" "Ah, it is just that," said Glenarvan. "It's the north wind that has put you in a bad temper. I have heard that, in South America, the wind greatly irritates the nervous system." "By St. Patrick, Edward you are right," said the Major, laughing heartily.
"When I lost papa, I was just married, and I did not feel all these things as I do to-day. Yes, pity me, think of me, write to me. I need you so much just now. "Paris, July 25. "MY POOR FRIEND: Your grief gives me horrible pain, and life no longer seems rosy to me. Since your departure I am lost, abandoned, without ties or refuge. Everything fatigues me, bores me and irritates me.
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