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"Not so much gentlemening, if YOU please!" said a sinister-looking man, who might have been a Vandemonian in his day. "MEN'S what we are that's good enough for us." Mahony was nettled. The foreigners, too, were pressing him. "Am I then to believe, sir, what I frequently hear asserted, that there are no gentlemen left on the diggings?" "Oh, stow yer blatherskite!"
Tolman told her that he had tried to buy another copy of the work, and for this she expressed herself gratefully. He also found himself compelled to say that the book was in the possession of a gentleman who had had it for some time all the time it had been out, in fact and had not yet finished it. At this the young lady seemed somewhat nettled.
"Well, sir," replied I, nettled at his answer, "at all events you will have the goodness to pay us our fare. We have lost our wherry, and our liberty, perhaps, through you; we may as well have our two guineas." "Two guineas! It's two guineas you want, heh." "Yes, sir, that was the fare we agreed upon."
They both seemed to be thinking deeply. "Well?" I said, somewhat dashed, as one whose story has fallen down on an anti-climax. Still no response. "I must say you two are a great audience," I said presently, perhaps rather childishly nettled. "What's happened to your imagination!"
He was seconded by M. de Bouillon, who said he was exceedingly glad to serve the Parliament under the command of so great a Prince as the Prince de Conti. M. d'Elbeuf was nettled at this expression, and repeated what he had said before, that he would not part with the General's staff, and he showed more warmth than judgment in the whole debate. He spoke nothing to the purpose.
"Is this John's doing?" she asked slowly. "Why should it be John's doing?" He was nettled, and showed it. "I am old enough to make a choice for myself." She paid no heed to this disclaimer. "They are perfectly ruthless," she went on. "Who are ruthless?" "Father and John.
If, when he was thirty, some one had foretold that at forty-five, with a sympathetic wife and family and an increasing income, he would be as far off happiness as ever, he would have smiled at the prophecy. The consulting friend, somewhat nettled by the plain man's bluntness, might retort: "I may or may not have been a fool. That's not the point.
He fired, and immediately cried out, "By St. Patrick, but that's amongst them, if they should happen to be there." This blunder caused a general laugh at poor Paddy's expense, who seemed a little nettled, and peevishly replied, "Fait! you may laugh, but that's more than those will who were kilt by that shell just now."
"Be n't it eno'?" said the farmer, nettled. "Pardon me," answered Kenelm. "But, to tell you the truth, it is the first money I ever earned by my own bodily labour; and I regard it with equal curiosity and respect. But if it would not offend you, I would rather that, instead of the money, you had offered me some supper; for I have tasted nothing but bread and water since the morning."
Not long after he came back, sorely nettled and disappointed. "It is done; the King has them in his own hands; yet he does not talk; promises nothing; is closeted with his ministers; they must be of considerable importance. It is all secure for us, for I told him of my departure in the morning to the colonies, and he assented.
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