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In sober reason I had no more cause to deplore Ellen's marriage than to feel aggrieved because Grant had succeeded Johnson as President. Nevertheless, you can scarcely conceive how much this affair I mean the marriage grieved me. My absolute nothingness suddenly stared me in the face.

There was throughout the room a universal feeling of sympathy with the affront and indignation against the offender; for, to say nothing of Clarence's popularity and the extreme dislike in which Lord Borodaile was held, there could be no doubt as to the wantonness of the outrage or the moderation of the aggrieved party.

The planters were almost aggrieved when he insisted on leaving them in the evening, but he had the excuse that he was a sort of aide-de-camp to Captain Farrance, and was bound to be there the first thing in the morning to receive any orders that he might have to give. He generally hired a gig and drove over early so as to have a long day there, and always took either Dimchurch or Tom with him.

"There was Bogans living down by the brick mill when I first come here, neighbors to Flaherty's folks," continued Mrs. Dunleavy, more and more aggrieved. "Biddy Con'ly ought to know the Flahertys, they being her cousins.

Gerald, and the family pride in him, was interwoven with the very path, and now The young man pressed on to the Hall with a certain bitter moisture stealing to the corner of his eye. He felt indignant and aggrieved in his love, not at Gerald, but at the causes which were conspiring to detach him from his natural sphere and duties.

M'Gurk, deeply aggrieved at forfeiting seven days' pay, said nothing, but bided his time. Two nights later the Battalion came out of trenches for a week's rest, and Bobby, weary and thankful, retired to bed in his hut at 9 P.M., in comfortable anticipation of a full night's repose. His anticipations were doomed to disappointment.

But, thank the Lord, I make enough money so we could do better by the little tad than that!" "Suppose I had gone to the theater that night," asked Lydia slowly. "There was nothing I could do here." Paul was justifiably aggrieved. "Good Lord, Lydia! I wasn't off amusing myself! I was doing business!" His special accent for the word was never more pronounced.

He had the farther originality to speak of himself as an aggrieved person, who had rendered great services to the Netherlands, and who had only met with ingratitude in return.

'Oh, I am sorry you do not like Uncle Max, I said, rather impulsively; but she drew herself up after the manner of an aggrieved pigeon. She was rather like a bright-eyed bird, with her fluffy hair and quick movements. 'Oh, I like him well enough, but I do not understand him. Men are not easy to understand. He is quiet, but he is disappointing.

"Why, theer, lass. Can yo' not see? Then yo' pit your head along o' mine so closer closer." Then, in aggrieved tones: "Whativer is the matter wi' yo', wench? I might be a leprosy." But the girl was walking away with her head high as the snow-capped Pike. "So long as I live, David M'Adam," she cried, "I'll niver go to church wi' you agin!" "Iss, but you will though onst," he answered low.