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To go from a disorderly household where no one seems to have any time, and where one has to try hard all day long to keep one's temper, to a great man's house, where half a hundred people move about their business as if they were one; where all is quiet and freedom and leisure, as if the business of life went on of itself, leaving minds at liberty for other work, is one of the most striking contrasts I have met with in society.

The others—those one meets on a basis of mere convenience—are much more exciting; they keep one’s temper in healthy exercise. 

It wasn't easy to keep one's temper with this sort of brute; but there was Nessa to be thought of.

There's Bob; when Bob is in one of his teasing fits it's almost impossible to keep one's temper.

Well, I know one thing," said Eurie, "it requires twice the grace that I supposed it did to get through with kitchen duties and exasperations and keep one's temper.