A Stupid Jealousy
Mr. Wiggins: It was a sort of stupid bitterness possessed us, and I can’t make out we didn’t see it before in that light. Not so much downright wickedness it wasn’t as stupidity. A stupid jealousy! Think of it!—two human beings within a stone’s throw, who have not spoken for twenty years, hardening our hearts against each other!
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Context: A shopkeeper explains why he has come to visit the rival grocer across the street.
Not in a duel yet
Source: In the Days of the Comet, Book the Second, Chapter the Second (The Awakening), § 4