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Then he ascertained that John Grimbal was in the metropolis, that the sale of the Red House and its lands had been conducted by the London agent, and that no penny of the handsome commission involved would accrue to him. Extreme acerbity was bred in him, and his mind, vindictive by nature, cherished from that hour a hearty detestation of John Grimbal.
Jean Blane said that 'acoustic' meant 'a religious squabble, and Muriel Baker said that an 'agnostic' was 'a man who had indigestion, and Jim Carter said that 'acerbity' meant that 'you ate nothing but vegetable food, and so on all down the list. Whiskers swallowed it all, and kept saying 'Very good very good' until Ella thought that die she would trying to keep a straight face.
The gentleman of whom I speak has paid especial attention to the mental delusions under which your ward is labouring, and has been successful in removing them in some cases. But as you reject my suggestion' he rose, so did Mrs. Nicholson 'I have the honour of wishing you a pleasant journey back to Derbyshire. 'A bullet may hit him, said Mrs. Nicholson with much acerbity. 'That's my best hope.
They lived together on the third storey of a large house in the Rue Vauvilliers, on the ground floor of which was a disreputable cafe. Madame Lecoeur's acerbity of temper was brought to a pitch by what she called La Sarriette's ingratitude, and she spoke of the girl in the most violent and abusive language.
Nor can we, who are removed from the temptations of the poor, temptations to which ours are as breezes which woo to storms which "tumble towers," nor can we tell how far the acerbity of want, and the absence of wholesome sleep, and the contempt of the rich, and the rankling memory of better fortunes, or even the mere fierceness which absolute hunger produces in the humours and veins of all that hold nature's life, nor can we tell how far these madden the temper, which is but a minion of the body, and plead in irresistible excuse for the crimes which our wondering virtue haughty because unsolicited stamps with its loftiest reprobation!
You look quite overheated. Why don't you get a man to do it?" Miss Ethel beads of perspiration on her flushed forehead and hands trembling with exertion so that she could scarcely hold the saw replied with pardonable acerbity: "I didn't get a man because I couldn't. You know that. Talk about unemployment!
Propped up against the hedge was a notice board: "This House to Let." "What on earth are you staring at?" Mrs. Burton demanded, with some acerbity. "A silly little place like that would be no use to us. I don't know what the people who've been living there could have been thinking about, to let the garden get into such a state.
Nor can we, who are removed from the temptations of the poor, temptations to which ours are as breezes which woo to storms which "tumble towers," nor can we tell how far the acerbity of want, and the absence of wholesome sleep, and the contempt of the rich, and the rankling memory of better fortunes, or even the mere fierceness which absolute hunger produces in the humours and veins of all that hold nature's life, nor can we tell how far these madden the temper, which is but a minion of the body, and plead in irresistible excuse for the crimes which our wondering virtue haughty because unsolicited stamps with its loftiest reprobation!
So that the Nikolskians have to conclude, in reflecting on M. Tchitchikof, not without acerbity and a certain uncharitableness of spirit, that if he were a friend of his species, he limited his species to himself; and if he were mad, there was a very clear and profitable method in his madness.
Yet with all these small blemishes Granger had many good qualities, and his big heart was so full of generous impulses and good motives as to far outbalance his short-comings; and not-withstanding the friction and occasional acerbity of our official intercourse, we maintained friendly relations till his death.
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