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At Kharta, where they found little to amuse them and no work to employ their time, they had sought diversion with the aid of liquor and become discontented and ill-affected.

Definition.—A habit is a perfect and stable quality by which a being is well- or ill-affected in itself, or with regard to its motions.

"I have been quite an absentee, sister Mary," said he, with ill-affected pleasantness.

Lord St. Maurice, with a field glass under his arm, went out upon the cliffs, and he returned hatless and with his coat ripped up, shaking his head with ill-affected cheerfulness.

"So, then, there is a battery preparing to open fire upon us?" said the Viscount, with a laugh of ill-affected indifference.