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Bassett had ever been a short-tempered man, and after he sent the second sheaf of telegrams to his brother captains, and had been laughed at again, he remained silent. In this second sheaf he had said: "Come, I implore you. As you value your life, come." He arranged all his business affairs for an absence, and on the night of March 2 went on board the Energon.
Horace was not naturally a short-tempered youth, but there was something in the tone of this self-satisfied lawyer's clerk which raised his dander. "Not much of a berth, is it?" pursued the catechist. "No," said Horace. "Not a very chirrupy screw, so I'm told eh?" This was rather too much.
They are probably the only short-tempered things in the Summer Islands, where time is so long that if you lose your patience you easily find it again. Sweetness, if not light, seems to be the prevailing human quality, and a good share of it belongs to such of the natives as are in no wise light.
For any day her husband might want help from us or might be brought in wounded to our hospital, where she could nurse and tend to him herself. Our men liked to be attended by her, for she was gentler far than I and never short-tempered with them.
He had had a sailing boat on the lake, in which he had spent much of his time, but his wife had always been with him. Since her death he had hardly put his foot within the boat. He had lately become quick and short-tempered, but always with a visible attempt to be kind to those around him. But people said of him that since his wife had died he had shown an indifference to the affairs of the world.
Some of them ride into town to church, and some of the women and children drive in in spring-carts the children to go to Sunday school, leaving mother and the eldest daughter usually a hard-worked, disappointed, short-tempered girl at home to look after the cooking.
Ratty M'Gill stood with flaming face and glittering eyes, watching the girl depart, leading the trembling Molly toward the exit of the corral. "You're a sure short-tempered gal this A. M.," he growled to himself. "And ye sure have got it in for me. I wonder why? I wonder why?" Frances did not vouchsafe him another look.
"By God!" he cried in that deep booming voice of his, "there spoke a traitor! You do not care, you say, what plots may be hatched against His Majesty's life and crown! Yet you ask me to believe you a true and loyal subject." Blake was angered; he was at best a short-tempered man. Deliberately he floundered further into the mire.
"Go ahead," Trent said, "I'm anxious to hear what you've got to say. Only look here! I'm a bit short-tempered this morning, and I shouldn't advise you to play with your words!" "This is no play at all," Da Souza remarked, with a sneer. "I ask you to remember, my friend, our first meeting." Trent nodded. "Never likely to forget it," he answered.
"Well 'e won't come out," said the other; "'e seems to be a short-tempered sort o' man." "I must see him," said the skipper, pondering. Then a happy thought struck him, and he smiled at his cleverness. "Tell him a little flower wants to see him," he said, briskly. "A little wot?" demanded the carman, blankly. "A little flower," repeated the other.
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