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Updated: May 4, 2025
Delusions, indeed! I call him a fool; but he attends me still with the same unwearied smile, the same bland professional manner, the same neatly-trimmed red whiskers, till I begin to suspect that I am an ungrateful, evil-tempered invalid. But you shall judge for yourselves.
The clock had struck three when the library door opened quietly and Sue, clad in a dressing gown through which the new roundness of her lithe little figure was plainly apparent, came into the room. She ran across to him and putting her head down on his knee wept bitterly. "Oh, Sam!" she said, "I think I am going insane. I have been hating you as I have not hated since I was an evil-tempered child.
Now and again as we sped onwards a startled deer would break cover and rush through brake and bramble, and once an evil-tempered old boar, feeding under an older oak, glared savagely at us as we passed, grinding his tusks in senseless rage till the foam flecked his brindled sides. We were in the deeps of the forest now, and, high noon as it was, it was grey as twilight.
Fortunately they were solitary, evil-tempered beasts that marked out a roaming territory to defend it from others of their kind, and not too many were to be encountered in cross-country travel. He stooped to pull his net from the now still paws. Some definite place he must reach.
"Afraid? no, no what I can do I can do there is no Pandiani to scold me if they not satisfied that is my own beezness is it right? oh, I say to you, Leo, if you hear Pandiani when I refuse to go to Malta you think you know the Neapolitan deealet dialect? no, it is not good for you to know all the wicked words of Naples and he is old and evil-tempered it is no matter.
Not only was his leather sack packed to overflowing with mail, but a little cart which he dragged behind him on the walk also held its quota of letters and gifts. "Merry Christmas!" the boys called to him. He was a genial soul, not in the least like the evil-tempered crank who had held the route the year before.
Among all her class, Barbara MacCluckie stood an easy worst, being the most incapable, unsightly, evil-tempered, vexatious woman into whose hands an unmarried man had ever been delivered. MacWheep had his own trials, but his ruler saw that he had sufficient food and some comfort, but Barbara laid herself out to make the Rabbi's life a misery.
It isn't that we have much to do too little, indeed; I'd grow rusty and evil-tempered with another season of this but I confess to a great mental blank in considering the bohunk . . . and I've no ambition to understand him better.
He is an evil-tempered brute, and I am afraid you may have some trouble with him. If he goes about talking as he did to us, he would soon get up a feeling against you.
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