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Updated: May 20, 2025
She didn't resist: she felt a deep self-annoyance that she didn't crave his kiss. She fought away her unwonted fear; perhaps when his lips met hers everything would be the same again, and her long-awaited happiness would be complete. He crushed her to him, and his kiss was greedy. Yet it was cold upon her lips. She struggled from his arms, and he looked at her in startled amazement.
But Richard had gone off in a mood midway between self-annoyance and the huff. Mary's first thought was to send the articles to Jinny with a request to exchange them for their counterparts in the proper colour. Then she dismissed the idea.
Thus do the ignorant and the credulous torment themselves; thus do they spread their nets to catch vexation, and pass their lives between hopes which are of no value and fears which are a positive evil. OMENS. Among the other means of self-annoyance upon which men have stumbled, in their vain hope of discovering the future, signs and omens hold a conspicuous place.
His self-annoyance was so great that it galvanised him to action. There and then he made up his mind: as soon as the child that was coming to them was old enough to travel, he would sell out for what he could get, and go back to the old country. Once upon a time he had hoped, when he went, to take a good round sum with him towards a first-rate English practice.
His hand flashed to his pocket, none the less. The figure laughed, a harsh coarse laugh which Manuel knew and recognized at once. "General Leborge," he exclaimed, surprise and self-annoyance struggling in his voice. "It is you!" "But Yes, my friend, it is I. You see, I am not so daring as you. I came secretly. I have been here three days, waiting for you." "But the meeting was set for today!"
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