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The noblest woman in the world couldn't save him everything she does to reform him irritates him; but a strong friend can save him sometimes a man who has been through it himself. The poor little wife of Gentleman Once went through it all. And she stuck to him. She went into low pubs after him." Peter shuddered again. "She went through it all. He swore promises.
Love and anger are modes of existence, suitable to modify, beings of the human species: when, therefore, man irritates himself against his fellow, he intends to excite his fear, or even to punish him, in order to deter him from committing that which is displeasing to him. Moreover his anger is necessary; it is the result of his Nature; the consequence of his temperament.
The least opposition irritates his pride, and he determines and commands, in a moment of impatience or vivacity, what may cause the misery of millions for ages, and, perhaps, his own repentance for years.
But the persistent defamer irritates even his friends. He offends the innate sense of patriotism and loyalty which slinks even in the breast of the rebel. The Duke noted with satisfaction the outward symptoms of Mr. Spinney's campaign; he was winning a following in those days of unrest. Through the columns of his newspapers the old politician exploited Mr.
I mean a faculty of enthusiasm that is always ready, and then TASTE, a rare quality, even among the best, so much so that one does not talk about it any longer. What irritates me every day, is to see a master-piece and a disgrace put on the same level. They exalt the little, and they lower the great, nothing is more imbecile nor more immoral.
"But they maintain that it is founded on the Bible." "True; and that is wherein it is most harmful. It is the false teaching calculated to 'deceive the very elect. Emelie, it irritates me to talk about it; let us drop it, please," and with a frowning brow the man arose and restlessly paced the floor.
"Will you have the lamp lit in the drawing-room or the study?" He looked at her. There was no lamp for him in her eyes. "Whichever you like. I think I shall go over to the Hannays', after all." He went; and by the lamp in the drawing-room Anne sat and brooded in her turn. She said to herself: "It's no use my trying to keep him from them. It only irritates him.
People may, or may not, read the books that fill the market, and nobody cares whether they do or not except the author and the publisher. But people must live in houses of some sort, and, if they are rich enough to choose, they will not live in houses they do not like, nor worship in temples of which the architecture irritates their nerves.
We have just seen that winged insects, collected in society, and concealing in their sucker a liquid that irritates the skin, are capable of rendering vast countries almost uninhabitable. They devour paper, pasteboard, and parchment with frightful rapidity, utterly destroying records and libraries.
I have often thought their labour might be turned to advantage. It has, I believe, been proved that spiders, were it not for their quarrelsome disposition which irritates them to attack and destroy each other, might be employed more profitably than silk-worms. The hardiness of some of the insects deserves to be mentioned.
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