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Wordsworth, who had some of the irritability and pettishness, mildly described by himself as "gentle stirrings of the mind," which occasionally render great men ludicrously like children, and who was, moreover, highly conservative after his early democratic fever had passed off, grew more and more liberal with advancing years.
Her repartees to her mother were less frequent than they had been, but there was often the unusual phenomenon of pettishness in her behaviour to Mrs. Gibson.
Oh, you are still too young and inexperienced to know that fate regards not our murmurs and our sighs, and, despite our reluctance and our refusal, still leads us in its own ways, not our own. You will have to learn that yet, poor child!" "But I will not!" cried Elizabeth, stamping on the floor with all the pettishness of a child.
There was no pettishness in her voice only a certain dignity which sits better on little women than on little men, and provokes no smile. She was looking at me with a curious steadiness of gaze as she spoke. It was my last chance for many a day, and I could not let her go with a mere bow of meek submission. "If I have been rude or discourteous, I am more sorry than I can say.
But as it is, his fretfulness and pettishness make no allowance for the wilfulness of his brothers and sisters; and so the confusions they make in the room, carry confusion into his heart and brain; till at length a brighter noon entices the others out into the snow. "Glad to be left alone, he seats himself by the fire and tries to read.
It is painful to add that according to Bowring the two became so much alienated in the end, that in 1827 Bentham refused to see Dumont, and declared that his chief interpreter did 'not understand a word of his meaning. Bowring attributes this separation to a remark made by Dumont about the shabbiness of Bentham's dinners as compared with those at Lansdowne House a comparison which he calls 'offensive, uncalled-for, and groundless. Bentham apparently argued that a man who did not like his dinners could not appreciate his theories: a fallacy excusable only by the pettishness of old age.
In the end he grew morose and sulky, and sometimes neglected to answer his wife when she spoke to him. Besides this, Trina's avarice was a perpetual annoyance to him. Oftentimes when a considerable alleviation of this unhappiness could have been obtained at the expense of a nickel or a dime, Trina refused the money with a pettishness that was exasperating. "No, no," she would exclaim.
"No one'll look at her there she's so dowdy!" burst out Isobel. Her uncle turned quickly, surprised and a little hurt at the pettishness of her tone. "Isobel, dear " protested her mother. Then Uncle Johnny laughed.
'And I count for nothing to you, mother! her deep voice quivering. 'You could put me aside, you and the girls, and live as though I had never been! 'But you would be a great deal to us if you did marry, Catherine! cried Mrs. Leyburn, almost with an accent of pettishness. 'People have to do without their daughters. There's Agnes I often think, as it is, you might let her do more.
He went to her, wondering as much at her audacity as her pettishness. When he reached her, 'Sir George, she said, retaining her seat and looking gravely at him, while he stood before her like a boy undergoing correction, 'you have twice insulted me once in Oxford when, believing Mr. Dunborough's hurt lay at my door, I was doing what I could to repair it; and again to-day.
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