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And I do not blame you, my dear, for believing my designs to be no more commendable than theirs no, not at all." But his mood was spoiled, and his tetchy vanity hurt, by the thought of stout well-set fellows having wooed this girl; and he permitted her to go without protest. Yet he sat alone for a while upon the fallen tree-trunk, humming a contented little tune.
Old Brother Silas is gettin' right smart tetchy with the passin' of the years; he is, so. But he's a powerful preacher. If anybody ever gits me for a star in their crown, it's Brother Silas ag'inst the field, even money up." Pettigrass turned and was groping for the gate latch when a hand fell on his shoulder, and a clutch that was more than half a blow twirled him about to face the roadway.
He referred to his mystification a little later, as he sat with his evening paper in the library. "I don't know what I said to that tetchy boy to hurt him," he began in an apologetic tone. "I don't see that there was anything too rough for him to stand in a little sarcasm. He needn't be so sensitive on the subject of whiskers, it seems to me." Mrs. Baxter smiled faintly and shook her head.
His odd devotion, soaring or sinking into fanaticism, into a kind of religious mania, with what was really a vehement assertion of his individual will, he had formulated duty as the principle to hinder as little as possible what he called the restoration of equilibrium, the restoration of the primary consciousness to itself its relief from that uneasy, tetchy, unworthy dream of a world, made so ill, or dreamt so weakly to forget, to be forgotten.
"Oh, but, Margaret, pray don't offend him, a connection of my poor dear Gilbert's. And so tetchy! I am sure I do not know how you'll manage to " "To get rid of him? Never fear. As I manage everything and everybody," said Mrs. Poyntz, bluntly.
"Oh, but, Margaret, pray don't offend him, a connection of my poor dear Gilbert's. And so tetchy! I am sure I do not know how you'll manage to " "To get rid of him? Never fear. As I manage everything and everybody," said Mrs. Poyntz, bluntly.
My old tetchy friend here is just the man to have arranged the marriage one day, and had the ceremony performed the next. We must look about us." And full of such cogitations, the mayor returned to his habitation. On the Thursday week after this conversation a coach drew up, about eight o'clock in the morning, at the gate of St Stephen's churchyard, and Mr.
Now come quickly and be careful that you do not cross the King's temper, for it is tetchy to-day. Indeed, had it not been for the Queen, who is with him and minded to see this Lady Harflete, that they would have burnt as a witch, you must have waited till a more convenient season which may never come. Stay, what is in that great sack you carry, Bolle?"
"I shall sit here." With a parting look at her extended in a chair a look half-resentful, half-adoring Soames moved into the lift and was transported to their suite on the fourth floor. He stood by the window of the sitting-room which gave view over Hyde Park, and drummed a finger on its pane. His feelings were confused, tetchy, troubled.
You may know him by a sunken, brooding eye; clothing marred by much tobacco, and a chafed and tetchy humour toward the hour of five P. M. Having bitterly schooled himself to see men as paragraphs walking, he finds that his most august musings have a habit of stewing themselves down to some ferocious or jocular three-line comment.
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