With me anger lasts but a moment, and then I'm open to overtures for peace ...

I think Howard's anger lasts." "It does," said Grace.

"He was a muff as a boy--a prig with a prig's memory under all his shallow, showy surface.

I'm frank with you; I never could take my cousin either respectfully or seriously, but I've known him to take his own anger so seriously that years after he has visited it upon those who had really wronged him.

And he is equipped for retaliation if he chooses.