When the herdsmen sauntered away from his path, and preferred not to talk to him, he felt the bitterness of their dislike, though they were only shepherds.

When the gentlemen of the neighborhood looked straight before them, and did not see him in their path, he burned with an indignation he would have liked well to express.

But no one took the trouble to offend him by word or deed, and a man cannot pick a quarrel with people for simply letting him alone.
Sophia's opinion recalled one or two of these events that were particularly galling; and he finished his breakfast in a sulky, leisurely fashion, to such reflections as they evoked.

Then, with a cigar in his mouth, he went to the master's room to see Moser.

He had been told that other parties were there also, but he did not surmise that their business was identical.