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It was evident that the working people were so accustomed to expect equivocation and evasion from those who sought their suffrages, that when they found, instead of that, a direct avowal of what was likely to be disagreeable to them, instead of being affronted, they concluded at once that this was a person whom they could trust.
"You may have reason " She hesitated, then, with a pretty confidence in her eyes, "For my sake please to pass provocation unnoticed. None will doubt your courage if you overlook and refuse to be affronted." "I cannot pass an affront," I said, bluntly. "What do you mean? Who is this quarrelsome Mr. Butler?"
Then he collected the German slaves and the tallest Gauls he could find, commanded the latter to dye their hair and beards to a light color, and brought them home to walk in his triumph. The Senate, however, were slow to understand that he could really expect a triumph, and this affronted him so much that, when they offered him one, he would not have it, and went on insulting them.
Hearing this, a round dozen of sergeants ran straightway whereas the wretched Martellino was being carded without a comb and having with the greatest pains in the world broken through the crowd, dragged him out of the people's hands, all bruised and tumbled as he was, and haled him off to the palace, whither many followed him who held themselves affronted of him and hearing that he had been taken for a cutpurse and themseeming they had no better occasion of doing him an ill turn, began each on like wise to say that he had cut his purse.
Parry?" said the young man, with a kind of coolness tempered by a desire to make himself agreeable to the princess. "Well, his majesty begs your grace to present this gentleman to her royal highness the Princess Henrietta." "In the first place, what is the gentleman's name?" said the duke, haughtily. D'Artagnan, as we know, was easily affronted, and the Duke of Buckingham's tone displeased him.
Joker, offended at this conjunction, echoed, "Who we are!" with great emphasis; and repeating nos poma natamus, asked ironically, to which of the tribes the Jew thought he belonged? The Levite, affronted at his comparing him to a ball of horse-dung, replied, with a most significant grin, "To the tribe of Issachar."
"Captain M , I have had the honour to serve under your command some time, and I trust you will allow that I have never shown any want of zeal in the discharge of my duty?" "No, Mr Pearce," replied the captain, with a grave smile; "without compliment, you never have." "Then, sir, you will not be affronted at, or ascribe to unworthy motives, a remark which I wish to make."
"My question is not answered, Dame." "Ay so, Sir. And 'tis like to abide thus a while longer." "I must know who were your counsellors. Name but one man." "Very well. I will name one an' you press me so to do." "So do." "Sir Henry de Beaufort, Chancellor of England." A peal of laughter rang through the House. "What mean you, Madam?" sternly demanded the affronted Chancellor.
'Six, sir, said the man, 'but it is fit food only for hogs. This answer affronted the captain, who asked the man in an angry tone, 'What part of America he came from? 'Near to Bunker Hill, sir, if you ever heard of that place, was the answer." On another occasion, a Yankee and a slightly wounded British marine got into a dispute, and came to blows.
Straightway in jumped Andrea Vendramin, the chief of the Scuola, to save it, and was supernaturally buoyed up by his sanctified burden. The picture has a religious basis, but heaven is not likely, I think, to be seriously affronted if one smiles a little at these aquatic sports.
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