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I exclaimed with positive horror that was flavored with a large dash of indignation. "Well, yes, a race between a widow and a girl for a man is about like one between a young duck and a spring chicken, across a mill-pond girl and chicken lose hey? But let Sallie have him, since you don't need him.
Nobody dreamed of the pending outbreak of the Commune; all the talk was of fusion between the elder Bourbon branch and the House of Orleans. Then, to the great indignation of Madame Thiers, the Royalists at once took measures to prevent M. Thiers from installing himself in Louis XIV.'s great bedchamber.
He accused himself probably of more violence than he had really used, and was therefore unhappy; but, nevertheless, his indignation was not at rest. He was angry with himself; but not on that account the less angry with Lady Arabella.
The verses on Agesilao Milano announced as being "on the other side" are there preceded by two epigrams on the object of his indignation above alluded to, which I suppress for the same reason that I have suppressed that portion of the letter referring to the same subject.
"You are only too ready to accuse one of us of starting malicious stories," replied his wife, with honest indignation. "It might be as well for you to consider the possible effect of your own words." "What possible effect ill effect, that is could my remark have had even if repeated?" demanded the major in amusement.
Still they burned with indignation at every intelligence of new desertions to Edward, and though the power of Pembroke compelled them to bend unwillingly to the yoke, it was as a bow too tightly strung, which would snap rather than use its strength in the cause of Edward.
At the command of the Governor-General he had offered to take charge of any communication for his Majesty which the estates might be disposed to entrust to him, and they had accordingly addressed a long epistle to the King, in which they gave ample expression to their indignation and their woe.
Navigation in the twelfth century. Limesol in Cyprus. The wrecked ships. King Richard's seal. The wreckers. Isaac Comnenus. Law and justice. Law is not the creator, but the protector of property. Joanna's inquiries for her brother. An alarm. A retreat. Richard's vessel appears. Richard's indignation on meeting Joanna's vessel. Richard's contest with King Isaac Comnenus.
"Now, mother, don't don't expect anything," he pleaded, "for you'll be no end cut up over the whole thing. Now, listen." He read the letter; the tone of his voice indicated both disgust and indignation. "Now, look at that!" He burst forth eruptively when he had finished.
'Forty years ago that might have been said, and not without truth. Ay. thirty years ago. But it is the fault of this gadding up and down Hind that a king's widow must jostle all the scum of the land, and be made a mock by beggars. 'Great Queen, said Kim promptly, for he heard her shaking with indignation, 'I am even what the Great Queen says I am; but none the less is my master holy.
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