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Updated: June 10, 2025
She had judged and condemned Theresa pretty roundly it is true, nevertheless she felt a little hurt and sore at the latter's treatment of her. Theresa need not have kept up the quarrel till the very last so acridly. After all, as she was going out purely for own pleasure and amusement, she might have found something nice and civil to say at parting.
Why didn't you keep your health, deceiving one like this? You were well enough when the wedding was!" "Ah, yes!" said he, laughing acridly. "I have been thinking of my foolish feeling about the pig you and I killed during our first marriage. I feel now that the greatest mercy that could be vouchsafed to me would be that something should serve me as I served that animal."
A dead shot, a sure thing with the knife, a heart to succor the oppressed and often to protect the shiftless," acridly. "I thank you, Senator! Your species of implication is worthy the splendor of your mighty apparel.
Prim spinsters eye him acridly, as a man given over to "shif'less" ways, and wives set him up, like a lurid guidepost, before husbands prone to lapse from domestic thrift; but the dogs smile at him, and children, for whom he is ever ready to make kite or dory, though all his hay should mildew, or to string thimbleberries on a grass spear while supper cools within, tumble merrily at his heels.
"Why, you fool," exploded Mathews, starting toward him with his fists clenched and anger blazing from his eyes at the watchman's obstinate stupidity, "you're talking to one of the owners of this mine! This is Mr. Townsend." For an instant the man appeared abashed, and then grumbled acridly: "Well, I can't help it. I've got orders and "
"The sun is shining right on your bare back," remarked Persis acridly. "According to your ideas yesterday, you'd ought to be ready to drop dead." Joel magnanimously ignored the taunt. Like some greater men, he had discovered that to be true to to-day's vision, one must often violate yesterday's conviction. The charge of inconsistency never troubled him.
"I hate the smell of paints; I hate the studio." "And I suppose you hate your fame?" acridly. "Bah! that is my card to a living. The people I meet bore me." "Not satisfied with common folks, eh? Must have kings and queens to talk to?" "I only want to live abroad, and you and father will not let me," petulantly. The music started up, and I heard no more.
"Nowadays princes have lady-like wives, obliged to share their opera-box with other ladies; royal favor could not raise them higher by a hair's breadth; they glide unremarkable between the waters of the citizen class and those of the nobility not altogether noble nor altogether bourgeoises," said the Marquise de Rochegude acridly. "The press has fallen heir to the Woman," exclaimed Rastignac.
The boy expects at any moment to be bidden to go forth with him upon his mission of revenge, little dreaming that it is here that that tragedy is to be played out." "This comes of your fine matrimonial projects for Cynthia," muttered Joseph acridly. He laughed his unpleasant laugh again, and for a spell there was silence.
What could this continual hobnobbing and going off into corners mean, except flirtation? Ruby Lee whispered it first into Aunt Nancy's good ear. Aunt Nancy indulged in four pinches of snuff in rapid succession, sneezed an amazing number of times, and then acridly informed Ruby Lee that she was a "jealous cat" and always had been one.
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