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A nice little animal, by my soul!... My father, who can show heat when he is provoked, told him to stop calling such names; that he was a decent man and I a decent girl. Here we seem to have the suggestion of the stirring scene in which the irate old fiddler threatens to throw President von Walter out of doors for insulting Louise.
He was right; and apparently the poor Sudra has been content with his strange lot, his insulting distinction, for ages and ages clear back to the beginning of things, so to speak. Manuel was a failure, poor old fellow. His age was against him. He was desperately slow and phenomenally forgetful.
"You are very well educated and very well bred, very honest, just, and high-principled, but in you the effect of all that is that wherever you go you bring suffocation, oppression, something insulting and humiliating to the utmost degree. You have a straightforward way of looking at things, and so you hate the whole world.
King Carlos III sent a royal ordinance to the island prohibiting the insulting of the old-time Jews, "an industrious and honorable people," threatening with penalty of imprisonment whosoever should call them "Chuetas." The island council sniffed at this absurd order of the too kind monarch, and Governor Febrer settled the matter with the authority of his name.
Miss Cornelia was more favourably impressed than she had expected to be, but deemed it her duty to be severe. "Do you think," she said sternly, "that you showed your gratitude to this family, who have been far too kind to you, by insulting and chasing one of their little friends as you did yesterday?" "Say, it was rotten mean of me," admitted Mary easily. "I dunno what possessed me.
Next morning we let out, and had gone but a small distance from the city, when there came a multitude of people of the country to the gates of the city, demanding satisfaction of the Ruffian governor for insulting their priests, and burning their great Cham Cai-Thaungu, who dwelt in the sun, and no mortal would violate this image but some Christian miscreants; and being already no less than thirty thousand strong, they announced war against him and all his Christians.
"I certainly don't like coming to blows, if I can help it." "Nor I neither but sometimes we can't help it. This man's object is to induce you to refuse the hospital, that he may put some creature of his own into it; that he may show his power and insult us all by insulting you, whose cause and character are so intimately bound up with that of the chapter.
"Don't you cheek us," said Roy, throwing his head up, and putting on his most autocratic air; "this is our garden and our wall, and the road you're walking on is our private road!" "Then don't you take to insulting passers-by, or it will be the worse for ye!" retorted the man. The boys were silent. "I'm sure he isn't an opportunity," whispered Dudley. But Roy would not be disconcerted.
His manner was purposely insulting, but the latter stood with lips firmly set, realising his position. "Now, then, go on over thar an' sit down," continued Lacy. "Maybe, if yer wait long enough, that partner o' yours might blow in.
'What! I exclaimed, starting in my chair. 'What's that you say? 'This business about Goguelat, he repeated. 'Ronald, said I, 'this is not your doing. These are not your own words. I know where they came from: a coward put them in your mouth. 'St. Ives! he cried, 'why do you make it so hard for me? and where's the use of insulting other people?
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