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This is the origin, among other things, of a disease called "touchiness" a disease which, in spite of its innocent name, is one of the gravest sources of restlessness in the world. Touchiness, when it becomes chronic, is a morbid condition of the inward disposition. It is self-love inflamed to the acute point; conceit, with a hair-trigger.
But when she is absent, what was piquancy becomes harshness, tender railleries become cruel sarcasm, and tacit understandings misunderstandings. However that may be, you shall never be able to reproach me for touchiness. I still esteem you as a friend; I admire you and love you as a woman. This I shall always do, however unconfiding you prove.
I had often heard him, but under no circumstances had I ever heard him develop such a wealth and compass of imagination. I. Intense Passions. Personality and character during the Italian Renaissance and during the present time. Intensity of the passions in Bonaparte. His excessive touchiness. His immediate violence. His impatience, rapidity, and need of talking.
"If only I had pretended to like the medicine," was what Nana's wet eyes said. "My liking for parties, George." "My fatal gift of humour, dearest." "My touchiness about trifles, dear master and mistress." Then one or more of them would break down altogether; Nana at the thought, "It's true, it's true, they ought not to have had a dog for a nurse." Many a time it was Mr.
He was well-dressed and amiable, and his only display of temper or touchiness took the rather curious form of adopting some impersonation not in accordance with the circumstances in which for the moment he found himself. Mrs.
Jealousy, anger, pride, uncharity, cruelty, self-righteousness, touchiness, doggedness, sullenness these are the ingredients of this dark and loveless soul. In varying proportions, also, these are the ingredients of all ill temper. Judge if such sins of the disposition are not worse to live in, and for others to live with, than sins of the body.
I would not have fought if I could have convinced myself that I was in the wrong, but after turning the matter well-over, and looking at it from every point of view, I could not help seeing that the fault lay in the count's excessive touchiness, and I resolved to give him satisfaction. At all hazards I would not fail to keep the appointment. I reached the cafe a moment after him.
The poet Moore relates in his diary a story told him by Sydney Smith of the "touchiness" of "the Republican" so the American novelist is styled as evinced by the indignation of the latter at the conduct of Lord Nugent. This nobleman, it appears, invited Cooper to take a walk with him to a certain street.
'She cried when I told her you were off again this morning. 'Well, I cried last night, he returned, 'and I had more reason to cry than she. 'Yes: you had the reason of going to bed with a proud heart and an empty stomach, said I. 'Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But, if you be ashamed of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
"More people believe it is your Excellency's!" Varin knew he was right, but aware of Bigot's touchiness on that point, added, as is the wont of panders to great men, "It is either yours or the Cardinal's." "Let it be the Cardinal's, then! He is still in purgatory, and there will wait the arrival of the Bourgeois, to balance accounts with him."
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