Sentence:  The glorified spirit of a great statesman and philosopher dawdling, like a <WSD>bilious</WSD> old Nabob at a watering-place, over quarterly reviews and novels—dropping in to pay long calls—making excursions in search of the picturesque! 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Peevishly ill-humored, irritable or bad tempered; irascible.