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"I!" cried the constable; "I feel envy of a gentleman whose ancestors thought themselves right happy to be squires to mine!" The king was rallying him one day on the attachment he was suspected of having felt for a lady of the court. The nickname of short-tempered stuck to the constable from that day, and not without reason.
This mild reply seemed to exasperate Harris far more than an angry retort would have done. He was naturally short-tempered, and when conscious that he was being worsted in an argument before his fellow- clerks he was always particularly savage. He walked up to Smith and demanded furiously, "Didn't I tell you I'm not going to be spoken to by a low gaol-bird like you?
But, as far as his own particular corner of it was concerned, he seemed to have made a sad mess of it. Human nature of quite an old-fashioned pattern had crept in and spoilt all his own theories. Of course it was unreasonable. The sign-post may remain embedded in weeds: it notwithstanding points the way to the fair city. She told herself this, but it left her still short-tempered.
It is a glorious, exhilarating scene, with the beautiful wintry landscape stretching away to the cloudy November sky, and the lords and ladies gay, and the hounds, and the frosty-faced, short-tempered old huntsman, the very perfection of his kind; and the poor cockney snobs on their hired screws, and the meek clod-hopping labourers looking on excited and bewildered, happy for a moment at beholding so much happiness in their betters.
Colonel von Krosick, like the remainder of the officers, had drunk his fair share of wine. He never liked his royal subaltern, and took no pains to conceal his sentiments. Much nettled, and quite as short-tempered as his colonel, William called out, half jokingly, half bitterly: "That is all very well, colonel. You are my superior officer at present, and I am bound to defer to your opinion.
"It was scarcely important enough to call a quarrel. My husband and I frequently disagreed on trifling matters. We were both a little short-tempered, and often had altercations that were forgotten as soon as they occurred." "And that's true," put in Miss Ames. "For two people who loved each other to distraction, I often thought the Emburys were the most quarrelsome I ever saw."
And, take my advice, stranger, don't cut up rough go slow and sing small when you get there, because my chief mate who is a Greek, and is in charge there is a powerful short-tempered man, and apt to make things downright uncomfortable for them that don't please him."
If I eat this mayonnaise, drink this champagne, I shall suffer in my liver. Then, why do I eat it? Julia is a charming girl, amiable, wise, and witty; also she has a share in a brewery. Then, why does John marry Ann? who is short-tempered, to say the least of it, who, he feels, will not make him so good a house-wife, who has extravagant notions, who has no little fortune.
His ways were sometimes crooked, and his professions often exceeded his practice. He meant well sometimes, and did ill very often; and, in short, was just the kind of fellow for the short-tempered, honest Ainger cordially to dislike. Such was the miscellaneous community which Mark Railsford found himself called upon to govern.
"No she won't," said Ann. "She'll snap your head off. Most of the 'putting up with' you'll have to do." He tried to get between her and the window, but she kept her face close to the pane. "You make me tired with Sylvia," she said. "It's about time you did know what she's like. She's just the commonplace, short-tempered, disagreeable-if-she-doesn't-get-her-own-way, unreasonable woman.
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