Their chaff was not ill-humoured, and if matters had stood as they evidently imagined, Lucius could have borne it.

Of course they were all four there; they met several ill-humoured friends from among the boarders a little way down, and joined company with them.

So she stood, slender and serious; yes, ill-humoured, and gazed upon the fourth person of the company, who was just then engaged in his performance.