It was as though his eyes were holding their breath, while his mother looked at him, her face flaccid and querulous, interminable, clairvoyant yet obtuse.
Prosperity never before imagined, power never yet wielded by man, speed never reached by anything but a meteor, had made the world irritable, nervous, querulous, unreasonable and afraid.
But this presence of Dinah in his mind only helped him to bear the better with his mother's mood, which had been becoming more and more querulous for the last hour.
" What" ! said Lisbeth, taking the cup and speaking in a less querulous tone, " had ye got no feyther and mother, then, as ye war so sorry about your aunt" ?
Mr. Jaggers was querulous and angry with me for having " let it slip through my fingers, " and said we must memorialize by and by, and try at all events for some of it.
It was wonderful to hear him speak of Miss Hatchard as if she were a querulous baby: in spite of his shyness he had the air of power that the experience of cities probably gave.
" What? What is it? Who are you? What do you want? " he cried in a high-pitched, querulous voice, looking first at Hermione, then at Ron, and finally at Harry, upon which his mouth fell open in a perfect, comical O.