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The irritation became too strong for her; without premeditation, she took advantage of the winding road to linger a little out of sight, and then set off back to the house, almost running when she was safe from observation.
In December 1773 the arrival of some English ships laden with tea kindled fresh irritation in Boston, where the non-importation agreement was strictly enforced; and a mob in the disguise of Indians boarded the vessels and flung their contents into the sea.
In a memorandum made by the Prince, at about this time, of an interview between himself, the Queen, and the Prime Minister, we catch a curious glimpse of the states of mind of those three high personages the anxiety and irritation of Lord John, the vehement acrimony of Victoria, and the reasonable animosity of Albert drawn together, as it were, under the shadow of an unseen Presence, the cause of that celestial anger the gay, portentous Palmerston.
The first necessity is to take the practical way, and not the sentimental. Thus true sentiment is found, not lost. The second is to follow daily, even hourly, the process of stepping over until it comes to be indeed a matter of course. So, little by little, shall we emerge from this mass of abnormal nervous irritation into what is more truly life itself.
You must excuse me, I am not a sage or a philosopher," Ivan Dmitritch continued with irritation, "and I don't understand anything about it. I am not capable of reasoning." "On the contrary, your reasoning is excellent."
What does Elizabeth know?" "The town knows nothing. She knows a part of it. She cares a great deal, Dick. It's a tragedy for her." "Shall you tell her I have been here?" "Not unless you intend to see her." But Dick shook his head. "Even if other things were the same I haven't a right to see her, until I've got a clean slate." "That's sheer evasion," David said, almost with irritation.
I tell you to turn him out." Mrs. Grivois had pronounced these last words in a tone of irritation, which did not sound at all satisfactory in Spoil-sport's ears; so he growled and showed his teeth, turning his head in the direction of the stranger. "Be quiet, Spoil-sport!" said Blanche sternly.
But as he walked through the great, noiseless house, he felt, in spite of Fortune's bounty, a loneliness of soul; also irritation at having lost Jane. What a letter he could have written to her! He could not say the things with which his heart was bursting to anyone on earth but Jane. Why had he lost Jane? The prospective Awakener of England wanted Jane.
But the fact was that intense weariness had come upon him, the appeal that he had made, the tears that he had shed had left him utterly exhausted. By and by, however, he would be brave and would say what he had resolved to say. "People do not understand me, do not understand me!" resumed Leo XIII with an air of impatient irritation.
Palmer traveled with them, making a pretense of interest that ill concealed his boredom and irritation. This for three weeks; then he began to make trips to London to amuse himself with the sports, amateur and professional, with whom he easily made friends some of them men in a position to be useful to him socially later on.
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