" As yet Emily's tempest of anger and resentment prevented her from feeling the sting of this.
She did not realize and would not have for a moment believed that she was really wreaking her own smothered resentment with Emily for her defeat and fright on the day of the threatened hair-cutting.
Rhoda was a darling; and there90 was something about Ilse Burnley that one liked; and as for the rest of the girls Emily got square with them by pretending she saw them all being hanged in a row for frightening her to death with a snake, and felt no more resentment towards them, although some of the things that had been said to her rankled bitterly in her heart for many a day.
" Well, they had no difficulty in recalling that dramatic episode, for it had occurred only a few days before; and a version of it that would have melted the stoniest heart had been presented to every girl in the village by Minnie Smellie herself, who, though it was Rebecca and not she who came off victorious in the bloody battle of words, nursed her resentment and intended to have revenge.
If Anna naturally felt a slight resentment against this too impartial and apparently callous attitude on the part of the child, she never showed it.
Each appeared to be concealing a certain resentment against the other; but this appearance was due only to nervous agitation.
' The finality of the answer seemed to have a touch of resentment.
She could not conquer a certain resentment of it, however absurd such a feeling might seem to her intelligence.
Anne felt an unreasonable resentment against Miss Cornelia.
" "I felt the resentment in your eyes—then I doubted—I thought I must be mistaken—because WHY should it be?
Sometimes I surprise a look in her eyes that seems to show resentment and dislike—it goes so quickly—but I've seen it, I'm sure of that.
"About three times, I think, we have been merry and hopeful, as we were the first evening; the rest of my visits were dreary and troubled: now with his selfishness and spite, and now with his sufferings: but I've learned to endure the former with nearly as little resentment as the latter.
All hard looks were pain to Maggie, but her self-reproach was too strong for resentment.
The strength that had come from resentment was all gone, and her lips were quivering visibly.
" "I don't mean your resentment toward them," said Philip, who had his reasons for some sympathy with this view of Tom, "though a feeling of revenge is not worth much, that you should care to keep it.
" "I don't wish to use deceit," said Maggie, flushing into resentment at hearing this word applied to her conduct.
Since these were the consequences of going to law, his father was really blamable, as his aunts and uncles had always said he was; and it was a significant indication of Tom's character, that though he thought his aunts ought to do something more for his mother, he felt nothing like Maggie's violent resentment against them for showing no eager tenderness and generosity.
The natural strength and firmness of his nature was beginning to assert itself, urged by the double stimulus of resentment against his aunts, and the sense that he must behave like a man and take care of his mother.
Their natural antipathy of temperament made resentment an easy passage to hatred, and in Philip the transition seemed to have begun; there was no malignity in his disposition, but there was a susceptibility that made him peculiarly liable to a strong sense of repulsion.
" especially when his resentment was sanctioned, as it was, by general disapprobation of Maggie's behaviour.
