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The French on their side felt that minor operations to enlarge their boundary somewhat, were but a vain effort, and reserved themselves for a great attempt to break through the line. The Franc-tireurs, however, were ever active. They kept up an increasing fusilade upon the Prussian outposts night and day, keeping them in a state of perpetual irritation and watchfulness.
She's a wonderful woman, but a trifle masterful." He laughed, but I detected a touch of irritation in his voice. My host looked a man wishful to be masterful himself. I do not think he quite relished the calm way in which this grand dame took possession of all things around her, himself and his work included. "Did you ever hear the story of the marriage?" he asked.
"About what?" "It'll take some time to explain." "Well, what's it about?" Mr. Weatherbee's voice indicated rising irritation. Then Anthony, straining at each word, each syllable, began: "I don't know whether or not you've ever heard of a series of pamphlets called 'Heart Talks' " "Good grief!" cried Percy B. Weatherbee, Architect, "are you trying to touch my heart?" "No, it's business.
But what engrossed her feeling, what filled her imagination now, was the panorama of her own immediate future that Klesmer's words seemed to have unfolded. The suggestion of Miss Arrowpoint as a patroness was only another detail added to its repulsiveness: Klesmer's proposal to help her seemed an additional irritation after the humiliating judgment he had passed on her capabilities.
Elizabeth, however, would certainly have detected the perfunctoriness of the tone, and the hypocrisy of the speech, had she had any thoughts to spare. But her face showed her absorbed. "Isn't it amazing!" Her tone was quiet, her eyes on the ground. "Yet, after all, the world has seen a good many emigrations in its day!" remarked Delaine, not without irritation. She lifted her eyes.
"You mean we can sell another bond?" "If necessary. I don't want to go without things. We have spent a lot, though, since I've been back." "Oh, shut up!" she said in irritation. "Why?" "Because I'm sick and tired of hearing you talk about what we've spent or what we've done. You came back two months ago and we've been on some sort of a party practically every night since.
Nevertheless, as Gortchakoff's circular expressed the intention of refraining from conquest for the sake of conquest, the irritation in England became very great when the conquest of Tashkend, and thereafter of Samarcand, was ascribed, apparently on good grounds, to the ambition of the Russian commanders, Tchernaieff and Kaufmann respectively.
"I have told you that I have been with my countrymen always heart and soul with them." The doctor spoke with some irritation, and Houston laid his closed hand hard upon the table to emphasize his reply: "Heart and soul! Very good! But we want your body now.
To the argument, that these provinces, with their strongholds, are needed for the defence of Germany, there is the obvious reply, that, if cut off from France contrary to the wishes of the local population, and with the French people in chronic irritation on this account, they will be places of weakness rather than strength, strongholds of disaffection rather than defence, to be held always at the cannon's mouth.
Guillaume usually evinced all the tolerance of a savant, for whom religions are simply social phenomena. He even willingly admitted the grandeur or grace of certain Catholic legends. But Marie Alacoque's famous vision, which has given rise to the cult of the Sacred Heart, filled him with irritation and something like physical disgust.
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