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Updated: June 25, 2025
So frenzied was I that I even envied you, who never had a child! The evening before that terrible day the weather was close, almost hot, and I thought my little Armand was affected by it. Generally so sweet and caressing, he was peevish, cried for nothing, wanted to play, and then broke his toys. Perhaps this sort of fractiousness is the usual sign of approaching illness with children.
"Why, I depended on seeing Mr. Oldfield," said he, with the fractiousness of a man recently ill. "This sickness of mine has put me back tremendously. I've got to make the address, and I don't know what to say. I meant to read town records and hunt up old stories; and then when I was sick I thought, 'Never mind! Mr.
For that matter, I never know how she puts up with Rodney's spoilt fractiousness.... And altogether life was a bit of a strain ... no peace. And I wanted some peace and solitude, to make up my mind in." "Are you making it up now?" Pamela, mildly interested, presumed it was a man. "Trying to. It isn't made yet. That's why I roam about your horrible slums in the dark.
And Teddy found the good rector's words come true. Days came when he tried his mother's patience much by his fractiousness and restlessness, and he was more often the vanquished than the conqueror. Even Nancy one day remonstrated with him. 'You're nasty and cross to-day. No one pleases you. 'I want to get out. I'm tired of this old kitchen. 'If you can't get out, you can't.
The suffering that the surrender cost Oliver was only shown in this species of petty fractiousness, until the last morning, when his nephew was helping him across the hall, and Clara close at his side, he made them stand still beside one of the pillars, and groaned as he said, 'Here I waited for the carriage last time! Here I promised to get it back again!
But it was only part of his invalid's fractiousness, for when the valet, Josef, appeared with the luncheon tray, the American seemed anxious to make amends for his behaviour. "I'm afraid I'm a bit trying at times, Meyer," he said with a pleasant smile. "But you're a good fellow. Go and have your lunch. You needn't come back till four: I always sleep after luncheon. Here, have a cigar!"
I said nothing happened; but one day I had a pleasant surprise, just when I did not deserve it; for it was one of my fractious days days of moods and tenses I used to called them when nothing seemed quite right, when I was beset by that sort of grown-up fractiousness that wants to be petted and put to bed, and bidden to lie still like a tired child.
And the House so quick, with all its passion, and fractiousness, and meannesses, at grasping the significance of a great and solemn moment marked its sense of the scene by a stillness that was almost audible a hush that spoke aloud. There was just one other incident in this marvellous little speech which must be noted. I have remarked the ofttimes the voice of Mr.
Fractiousness and naughtiness, ungovernable fits of temper, inconsolable weeping and inexplicable fears should disappear with early childhood even if management has not been perfect.
"I had often thought I ought to tell her that these sensitive feelings of hers were nothing but temper; and perhaps indeed I know I do I partake of the general fractiousness of the house to-day, and I did not bear it so patiently as usual. I did say that I thought it wrong to foster her fancies; for if she looked at them coolly, she would find they were only a form of pride and temper."
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