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"Job himself could scarcely have been possessed of more patience," I think at first; but before the evening is over I come to the conclusion that my worthy host wouldn't exchange that particular hubble-bubble with its everlasting contrariness for the most perfectly drawing nargileh in Turkey: like certain devotees of the weed among ourselves, who never seem to be happier than when running a broom-straw down the stem of a pipe that chronically refuses to draw, so Kirkor-agha Vartarian finds his chief amusement in thus tinkering from one week's end to another with his nargileh.
She was as changeable as a little child, and had humors, too, of tenderness and contrition, when she would put her arms round her husband's neck and be-darling him, saying, "I love you! I love you!" and bemoan her contrariness and the fact that she was white.
'Well, I'm blowed! Burton was openly delighted; not so Done, who, true to the contrariness of poor human nature, was apparently quite depressed.
The Sinclair increased her speed and pushed northward after the Maria. I turned to the Celebrity. "If you wish to escape, now is your chance," I said. For contrariness he was more than I have ever had to deal with. Now he crossed his knees and laughed. "It strikes me you had better escape, Crocker," said he. "You have more to run for." I looked across at Miss Thorn.
As I well considered all this, I was almost impelled to put the finished work wholly aside, through the scorn I had reason to anticipate on account of the newness and apparent contrariness to reason of my theory.
"Because our Holy Saint Peter is the only saint who understands the trouble men have with the contrariness of women." "Why so?" cried the Chancellor, rubbing his hand with a curious pleasure at the colloquy. "Because he only among the Apostles was a married man and had experience of a mother-in-law." "Art a wise forester. Where got you that wisdom?"
I thought of Charmian, of her beauty, of her strange whims and fancies, her swift-changing moods and her contrariness, comparing her, in turn, to all those fair women I had ever read of or dreamed over in my books. From such disquieting reflections I would turn my mind to sweet-eyed Prudence, to the Ancient, the forge, and the thousand and one duties of the morrow.
No woman can afford to be really devoted to a man; they can't help being mean, and immediately thinking the poor thing is of less consequence to please than some capricious cat they cannot obtain!" Sabine nodded, and Moravia went on: "But you need not fear! Henry will adore you always because you really don't care!" and she sighed a little bitterly at the contrariness of things.
The tractable manner in which the boat had floated down the river, it is true, caused him some surprise, as was shown in his remark to the younger Pliny, on landing. "This is a curious boat, afther all," said Pat. "One time it's all contrariness, and then ag'in it's as obliging as one's own mother.
If she had had a more sensitive temperament she would have appreciated it all the more keenly; but if she had had a more sensitive temperament she would not have been blatant about her shock. Contrariness
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