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He felt the approaches of age; and while he pretended to cling to life, you saw how slender were the ties left to bind him. Discoursing with him latterly on this subject, he expressed himself with a pettishness, which I thought unworthy of him. "They take me for a visiting governor," he muttered earnestly.
"Well, what now, Gaut?" exclaimed Elwood, with an assumed air of pettishness, after finding there was no further chance of escaping an interview which he had evidently been trying to avoid; "what would you have now?" "I would just know whether you intend to keep your engagement," replied Gurley, fixing his black, quivering eyes keenly on the other. "What engagement?"
Yet afterwards, in the course of the ensuing day, she seemed to have recovered, not merely her spirits and resolution, but a sort of flighty levity, that was foreign to her character and situation, and which was at times chequered by fits of deep silence and melancholy and of capricious pettishness. Lady Ashton became much alarmed and consulted the family physicians.
I spoke in rather an aggrieved tone, feeling somewhat inclined to think my relatives hard-hearted. "Interview Mrs. Petersen, if you choose, my daughter," said papa; "only be prepared for disappointment." "I only want to see Matty provided for, papa," I answered, a little ashamed of my former pettishness.
She, at first, could not comprehend the foolish pettishness with which I received her attentions; but my heart, incapable of concealing what passed in it, did not long leave her ignorant of my suspicions; she endeavored to laugh at them, but this expedient did not succeed; transports of rage would have been the consequence, and she changed her tone.
But I won't let you; so just stop it; will you." Something new in Ascott's tone speaking more of the resentful fierceness of the man than the pettishness of the boy frightened his little aunt, and silenced her.
About an hour afterwards, and when the Rabbi was only entering into the heart of the matter, Carmichael made the bitter discovery without the Rabbi having even hinted at such a thing that his pet sermon was a mass of boyish crudities, and this reverse of circumstances was some excuse for his pettishness.
Bentley explained that he wished to make a few preliminary sketches of her head and bust, and proceeded to pose her. She accepted his directions with a curious pettishness, as though they annoyed her; and presently complained loudly that the chair was uncomfortable, and the pose irksome.
Mentally she put her sister's pettishness down to the noise and heat of the theatre, and it was an additional reason for bearing Wagner and his music a grudge.
Grown-up people do not want their sugar-plums all at once, as children do don't you see it, Edna?" "Oh, yes, I know what you good people mean." But she spoke with a degree of pettishness. "But I have not climbed as high as you, and I shall be a shriveled, cantankerous old maid." "You will be nothing of the kind," replied Bessie, kissing her.
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