That thing you do!!!

“ And she was doing this to me. What pain it gave me to think that she was showing favor to a contemptible, clumsy and sulky booby like him. He was always in pursuit of her and I had to cross him everyday. I would have felt miserable whomsoever she had favored but a worthier object would have caused me a different kind and degree of distress. And how she held him……now with encouragement, now with discouragement, now almost flattering him, now openly despising him, now knowing him very well, now scarcely remembering who he was……and all this when I was watching her……..”