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"It has been a sharp attack, but the remedies you have applied have been worth all the Pharmacopoeia an hour later. I shall send a powder," &c. &c. Mrs. Mrs. Jenkins looked affronted and awkward, and as if she must go upstairs and wash her hand directly. But, in spite of these sour looks, she came softly down an hour or so afterwards to see how baby was.
The truth's the truth." "I'm not affronted, Mrs. Edlin. You've been too kind a neighbour for that. But I must be allowed to know what's best for myself and Susanna. I suppose you won't go to church with us, then?" "No. Be hanged if I can... I don't know what the times be coming to! Matrimony have growed to be that serious in these days that one really do feel afeard to move in it at all.
It might be doubted if he would not have been infinitely happier in the atmosphere of the paternal establishment, weighing out drugs, in shabby clothes, behind the counter, than he was now, snubbed and affronted, and barely tolerated. After this the marchesa and Trenta became partners; but matters did not improve.
In spite of that affront, being a high-minded man not to be warped by petty irritation, you hurry to your lawyers to get two thousand pounds of your own, for the man who had affronted you." "Is that so?" said Mrs. Little. "I was not aware of that." "I have just learned it, accidentally, from the son of the solicitor Raby went to that fatal night." A tear stole down Mrs. Little's cheek.
"From where else, sahib?" But this was too much for Saunders, who stepped forward and thrust in an oar. King on the other band stepped back a pace so as to watch both faces. "Then, when did she go?" "I saw her go!" said Ismail, affronted. "When? When, confound you! When?" "Yesterday." "I expect he means to-morrow," said King.
As far as appears from the narrative, those who affronted the king by neglect, and those who put his messengers to death, received the same punishment.
Were it superstition Never by such suspicion to have affronted The human form, oh, may the time ne'er come In which I shame me of the infirmity. The wildest savage drinks not with the victim, Into whose breast he means to plunge the sword. This, this, Octavio, was no hero's deed 'Twas not thy prudence that did conquer mine; A bad heart triumphed o'er an honest one.
"Don't be affronted," said she, laughing, "but it does put me in mind of some of the old heathen heroes, who, after performing great exploits in a foreign land, offered sacrifices to the gods on their safe return." "There is no sacrifice in the case," replied Edmund, with a serious smile, and glancing at the pianoforte again; "it is entirely her own doing." "Oh yes I know it is.
Such was her reward! I heard of Jenny's worth and kindness from the Englishman who had been so grievously affronted by Captain N , and sent for her to come to me. She instantly accepted my offer, and returned with my messenger. She had scarcely a garment to cover her. I was obliged to find her a suit of clothes before I could set her to work. Her accounts of Mrs.
"Well said, my sweet prophet," said Alfred, kissing his cousin, "you have more sense than both of us." "Answer for yourself, Alfred, if you please," said Emma, tossing her head as if affronted. "I shall not forget that remark of yours, I can assure you. Now, I prophesy quite the contrary; Alfred will never go to sea again.
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