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And so it is true that I have had many dark hours; that I pass days in long silence; that the conversation of fools and whipper-snappers makes me rebellious and peevish, and that, when I feel contempt, I sometimes don't know how to conceal it, or I should say did not. I hope as I grow older I grow more charitable.
They felt rather peevish, for they had come to regard Pancha Lopez as a permanent institution devised for their amusement. They no more expected her to fail them than the clock in the Ferry Tower to be wrong. Charlie Crowder heard it at the Despatch office next morning Mrs. Wesson, who picked up local news like a wireless, met him on the stairs and told him.
The night-hawk, wheeling about in the highest regions of the air, emitted his peevish, boding cry. The woodpecker gave a lonely tap now and then on some hollow tree, and the firebird, as he streamed by them with his deep-red plumage, seemed like some genius flitting about this region of mystery. They now came to an enclosure that had once been a garden.
It is certainly true, the ideas of the happy enthusiast will be less dangerous to himself, less baneful to others, than those of the atrabilarious fanatic, whose temperament may render him both cowardly and cruel; nevertheless the opinions of the one and of the other will not be less chimerical; the only difference will be, that of the first will produce agreeable, cheerful dreams; while that of the second will present the most appalling visions, terrific spectres, the fruit of a peevish transport of the brain: there will, however, never be more than a step between them all; the smallest revolution in the machine, a slight infirmity, an unforeseen affliction, suffices to change the course of the humours to vitiate the temperament to endanger the organization to overturn the whole system of opinions of the happiest.
The contest soon aroused the other individuals of the genus up they started from their repose, like Roderic Dhu's merry men, and incontinently flocked to the scene of battle. "To it," said I; and I took one by the leg and another by the throat, and dashing them against each other, turned all their peevish irascibility at the affront into mutual aggression.
"Jan who, being in closer proximity to Dr. West than any one, may be supposed to know best of his private affairs tells a tale of Dr. West's having set a chimney on fire at Chalk Cottage, thereby arousing the ire of its inmates." "Don't you repeat such nonsense to me, Lionel; you are not Jan," she returned, in a half peevish tone.
"Then that is one thing she has in her favor. Perhaps we shall discover other good qualities in her that we've overlooked." "Perhaps," echoed Miriam dryly. "Mustn't interrupt me," drawled Elfreda. "I may become peevish and refuse to talk." "All right," smiled Grace. "We accept the warning. Continue, my dear Miss Briggs." Elfreda grinned cheerfully.
The people looked with pity and compassion upon the poor, peevish gentleman, who, in spite of the great Prince's star upon his breast and the Electoral hat with its waving plumes, was not by far so splendid to behold as the proud, stately Count Adam, who strode along at his side.
"Ye es, but we'll overtake him. He's a vindictive carrier. He and Hinch 'ad words about pig-breeding this morning. O' course, Hinch don't know the elements o' that evolution; but he fell back on 'is naval rank an' office, an' Agg grew peevish.
And, while she read, the glory of the verse seemed to pass into her handsome, peevish face.
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