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He was at times unhappy, and perhaps ill-tempered with the world; but never with us. He was always kind to sister and myself never scolded us. Ah! no, sir; I can never think he knew that." "He was aware that Stebbins was a Mormon was he not?" "I have tried to believe that he was not though Stebbins afterwards told me so." I well knew that he was aware of it, but said nothing.
My mother was an ill-tempered woman, and ruled my father, who was a confoundedly severe, domineering man. I was born in an ill-temper. I was an ill-tempered child; I grew up an ill-tempered man. I feel worse than ill-tempered now, and when I die it will be in an ill-temper."
He staggered blindly along the road to the gate; it gave way before him with a reluctant rattle, and closed with an ill-tempered clap as he passed through. Swaying from side to side of the marble walk, he at last reached the porch. In trying to ascend the steps, he stumbled, and pitched forward in a heavy fall.
"You are very selfish and ill-tempered, my poor little boy, and I am heartily ashamed of you." "If I am, it is because " "Hush, Felix!" Edna laid her hand on the pale, curling lips of the cripple, and luckily at this instant Mrs. Andrews was summoned from the room. Scarcely waiting till the door closed after her, the boy exclaimed passionately: "Felix! don't call me Felix!
He had been with Lord Cobham, and was much disappointed with his reception, for Cobham angry that Grafigni had brought no commission from the King had refused to receive Parma's letter to the Queen, and had expressed annoyance that Bodman should be employed on this mission, having heard that lie was very ill-tempered and passionate.
He looked even better in evening dress, but he appeared ill-tempered, and no doubt found the situation unpleasant. "Is not this a beautiful house?" I said, in a velvet voice, to break the awkward silence, and show him I did not share his unease. "You had not seen it before, for ages, had you?" "Not since I was a boy," he answered, trying to be polite.
"But I could say as much as that in favour of a great many young ladies whom I should regard as very ill suited for such a marriage." "Yes; some might be vulgar, some might be ill-tempered, some might be ugly; others might be burdened with disagreeable connexions. I can understand that you should object to a daughter-in-law under any of these circumstances.
A man of sagacity, while he apprehends a great deal of the evil around him, resolves what part of it he will be blind to for the present, in order to deal best with what he has in hand; and as to men of any genius, they are not imprisoned or rendered partial even by their own experience of evil, much less are their attacks upon it paralysed by their full consciousness of its large presence. Here, in the next place, is an aphorism worth pondering and remembrance: 'Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelessness. And by the side of it we may place a pleasant sarcasm attributed to Ellesmere, and apparently intended as a reminder for stump-orators: 'How exactly proportioned to a man's ignorance of the subject is the noise he makes about it at a public meeting. Not altogether out of connection here may be this brief sentence: 'Next to the folly of doing a bad thing, is that of fearing to undo it. In the following, we have a brief sufficient argument against the indulgence of unavailing sorrow or anxiety: 'It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world. There is plain truth, too, in the next, though it is not likely to be much remembered by those who are most in need of it: 'An ill-tempered man often has everything his own way, and seems very triumphant; but the demon he cherishes, tears him as well as awes other people. In another place, and from another point of view, he indicates the admirable benefits of human, sympathy.
To herself she simply expressed it that she was going to lead her own life, to earn her own living, to fight for herself; and that the sooner she escaped this gloomy, damp, and ill-tempered house the better.
"Clumsy lunkhead!" roared Si, as ill-tempered now as anybody. "Couldn't you see that puddle and keep out of it? You'd walk right into the Cumberland River if it was in front of you. Never saw such a bat-eyed looney in my life."
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