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Her words were light, but very sure. Her apparent levity irritated me. "How do you know? What are you saying, Jane?" I asked sharply. "Oh, I just have a feeling that way. "For the love of heaven, Jane Gray, that's no reason. Good looks don't keep a man from sin." Then after a pause: "That program did not say what particular thing our boy was wanted for, did it?"
Even now his jealousy was not stirred in the least, but his sense of appearances was irritated. By the time he had reached home he had worked up a proper indignation. "Look here, Nan," he blurted out as soon as he had closed the door behind him, "you're seeing too much of Sansome. Everybody's talking." "Who is everybody?" she asked very quietly.
We are all irritated now and then by some mawkish interpretation of our motive force that makes it seem a weakly thing, invoked to help us in evading difficulties instead of conquering them. Love in any genuine form is strong, vital and warm-blooded. Let it not be confused with any flabby substitute. Take a parallel case.
Her brother the Cardinal had told her how irritated he was by the attitude of the Congregation of the Council; he had little doubt that the frigid reception accorded to his niece's suit had been due in part to the desire of some of his brother cardinals to be disagreeable to him.
The mere suggestion of hunting a servant for their most common needs irritated the German maiden. "Never!... Perhaps she might be a spy!" And the word "spy" on her lips took on an expression of immense scorn. The doctor was absent on frequent trips and Karl the employee in the study, was the one who received visitors.
Beyond the alley into which the gate opened, Cyrus caught sight of Gabriel's erect figure hurrying down the side street in the direction of the Old Ladies' Home, and calling out to him, he scrambled over the ash heaps and tomato cans, and emerged, irritated but smiling, into the sunlight. "I'm on my way to the bank.
Ave Marcellus! said the old Curé, giving his nephew a paternal embrace; how are you, my poor boy? I am very well, replied Marcel. No! your servant has told me that you have been unwell for some time. She is really too kind. You have been talking to her then? Yes, while waiting for you. She seems to me a worthy and intelligent person, but a little irritated with you. Do you live badly together?
This instance of bad faith highly irritated the First Consul, who one day, in a fit of displeasure, thus addressed Lord Whitworth in the salon, where all the foreign Ambassadors were assembled: "What is the meaning of this? Are you then tired of peace? Must Europe again be deluged with blood? Preparations for war indeed! Do you think to overawe us by this?
"May be so, sir, may be so," returned the other, taking Tom upon his knee and waving him off impatiently. "I don't want to argue with ladies and gentlemen. I have had enough of arguing to last one man his life." "You have sufficient reason, I dare say," said Mr. Jarndyce, "for being chafed and irritated " "There again!" exclaimed the man, becoming violently angry. "I am of a quarrelsome temper.
At first he had replied, "Dere ain't no such man;" but irritated by its senseless repetition, he had latterly dropped into the formula of, "You be dam."
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