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The woman exclaimed impatiently: "So you could beat the police to it," she whispered. "So you could HUSH IT UP!" The surprised laugh of the man was quite real. It bore no resentment or pose. He was genuinely amused. Then the dignity of his office, tricked and insulted, demanded to be heard. He stared at her coldly; his indignation was apparent. "You have done extremely ill," he told her.
In the corner stood a huge bowl of roses. Gathering both hands full, she leaned forward and flung them, so that they fell in a shower of loveliness upon the insulted flag of her nation. For an instant silence fell upon the "great unwashed" below.
I tried to make him take it, but it only insulted him to mention it. "'I'll use what I've got in loose change, says he. 'You keep the rest for me. I'll drop in on you and Mr. Tucker to-morrow afternoon about 6 or 7, says he, 'and we'll have dinner together. Be good. "After Whiskers had gone Andy looked at me curious and doubtful.
Come, wife, we'd better go home! ULYÁNA. Well, good-by, sister, but remember! KRASNÓV, TATYÁNA, LUKÉRYA, and AFÓNYA TATYÁNA. That's the kind of relatives you have! I lived better beyond comparison as a girl; at least I knew that no one dared to insult me. KRASNÓV. And I'll never let you be insulted.
They had shown their teeth at last, after more than a century of patience and self-control. The great President personally reviewed the records of the court, and wrote with his own hand the names of the forty Indians who were executed, instead of three hundred originally condemned to die. He was abused and insulted for his humanity.
It was almost more than waif-and-stray human nature could stand to be respectfully "sirred" by a London policeman his old foe, whom, in days gone by and on occasions innumerable, he had scorned, scouted, and insulted, with all the ingenuity of his fertile brain. "Your name is Giles Scott, is it not?" he asked. "It is, sir."
Had she not known her so well, Mary Louise would have felt that Josie had deliberately insulted her. As it was, she blamed her friend for inexcusable affectation. "I'm not sure," she reflected, "that a girl can be a detective a regular detective without spoiling her disposition or losing to some an extent her maidenly modesty.
Every one of them was disappointed, because they all knew that something they did not expect had taken place between Petunikoff and Vaviloff, and they all felt that they had been insulted. The feeling that one is unable to injure anyone is worse than the feeling that one is unable to do good, because to do harm is far easier and simpler. "Well, why are we loitering here?
As for Scott himself, a smile of contempt gradually covered his face as he listened to Levake's outbreak. He only waited patiently for the moment, which he knew must come, when Levake should cease talking. "Your tongue, Levake," returned Scott at last, "is longer than a coyote's. Why do you stand here and bellow about being insulted? What is all this noise about, anyway?
In the preceding year, at the early age of fourteen, the young Saint-Luc had a quarrel with Emmanuel-Monsieur, the son of the Duc de Mayenne, by whom he conceived that he had been insulted, and who, upon his demanding whether the affront were intended as a jest or designed as an insult, replied that he might interpret it as he pleased, inquiring at the same time if he were not aware who he was.
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