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You may not be aware, perhaps, that, besides being painted by my mother, it is in itself a very valuable work of art." There was a suggestion, however faint, in her words, of condescension for her lodger's bad taste, and a desire to enlighten his ignorance which nettled Westray; and he contrived in his turn to throw a tone of superciliousness into his reply.
There are many who may read this account of the way the Boyds, the Burnses, the Flemings, the Creedes, the Stones and others of our county aristocracy, came to this party in alpacas, delaines, figured lawns, and even calicoes, riding on loads of hay and in lumber wagons with spring seats, who may be a little nettled when a plain old farmer tells it; but they should never mind this: the time will come when their descendants will be proud of it.
"Hurry up, can't you?" growled our host; "what are you girls always so beastly particular for?" "O, it's all very well to say bosh," replied Harold, nettled; "but every one knows it's true but you. Why, when Uncle Thomas was here last, and they got up a bottle of wine for him, he took just one tiny sip out of his glass, and then he said, 'Poo, my goodness, that's corked! And he wouldn't touch it.
I tried to laugh, but could only make a grimace; and found all the muscles of my face twitching at sixes and sevens, and totally out of all control. It takes but little to raise a laugh among a set of fox-hunters. There was a world of merriment and joking at my expense; and as I never relished a joke overmuch when it was at my own expense, I began to feel a little nettled.
They shouldered their fusils, sprang gaily up the rocks, and the little doctor hobbled back to Terracina, rejoicing that the robbers had let his seal ring, his watch, and his treatise escape unmolested, though rather nettled that they should have pronounced his veritable intaglio a counterfeit. The improvvisatore had shown many symptoms of impatience during this recital.
"If it hasn't been found, then it must be because no one has ever looked for it in the right way." Still gazing at me keenly, he added, "Yes, I already knew there was such a man at large. I have been called in on that Fletcher case he was a trustee of the University, you know." "All right," I exclaimed, a little nettled that he should have anticipated me even so much in the case.
He spoke very quietly, but it was unfortunate for both of them that the other man, who was growing slightly nettled, did not know when to stop. "I told you I was sorry I looked in at an inopportune time already, and I'll forget it right off," he said. "Now that should content anybody, because there are folks who would think the story too good to be lost."
Yet, despite all this, it was not difficult for me to perceive that the reflection that Morillo and his gang were still at large greatly nettled him, and that I could not find a surer way to his continued favour than by finding and capturing or destroying the audacious pirate.
"This is rather a nice place, after all," she observed, "isn't it." "It's a real lovely place," declared Hephzy with enthusiasm. The young lady cast another appraising glance at our surroundings. "Yes," she repeated, "it's a jolly old house and the grounds are not bad at all." Her tone nettled me. Everything considered I thought she might have shown a little more enthusiasm.
The captain reconnoitered the shore with his glass, and, to his infinite vexation, saw the loiterers in the full enjoyment of their "wildgoose-chase." Nettled to the quick, he immediately made sail.
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