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Stryker, quite nettled at his own flagrant misdemeanour, had to face a frown from the charming widow. It was decidedly an unlucky hour for Mr. Stryker: he only succeeded in catching a solitary perch; while Mr. Hopkins, who had been invited to join the party, contributed a fine mess. The fault, however, was all thrown on the sunshine; and Mr.
This deed moderated their wanton and injurious jests, and drove the champions to quit the place. The bridegroom, nettled at this affront to the banquet, resolved to fight Bjarke, in order to seek vengeance by means of a duel for the interruption of their mirth. At the outset of the duel there was a long dispute, which of them ought to have the chance of striking first.
This was a harsh and discordant break in the honeyed strains of flattery to which she had always been accustomed, and it nettled her greatly. Moreover, the criticism she received had a delicate point, and touched her to the very quick; and to her it seemed unjust and uncalled for.
But the score was five to nothing, and the fight still on Marshall's lines. It might be possible to duplicate the performance, and still further push the home players down in the mud. Marshall, however, was now nettled. The sting of that easy touchdown was like the goad to a lazy horse.
But I consider his contradictory statements so serious a thing that I shall give you the opportunity that was denied me." Elder Fox, plainly nettled by the turn affairs had taken, rose and demanded the floor. "Brother Fox!" vociferously acknowledged the moderator. "We have no right to carry this senseless discussion further.
It seemed inconceivable that Elsie could have inherited them except through the Marleys; and yet, of course, Elsie remembered her mother who had died only three years ago. She had to consider that the girl didn't like that fresh Jerrold boy and had been nettled by his remark. Possibly in her indignation she had said what first came into her mind, though it didn't seem like her.
"It was not an action at all of that description; and I never proposed to any girl except Miss Ashton," he returned, nettled at the remark. "Is it over?" "Not quite;" and there was some hesitation in his tone. "Carr is settling it for me. I trust, Maude, you will never hear of it again that it will never trouble you." She sat looking at him with her wistful eyes. "Won't you tell me its nature?"
"We're slaves to fashion," replied Eleanor, "That's the popular excuse." "Bah!" exclaimed Carley. Eleanor laughed in spite of being half nettled. "Are you going to stop wearing what all the other women wear and be looked at askance? Are you going to be dowdy and frumpy and old-fashioned?" "No. But I'll never wear anything again that can be called immoral.
M. Charnot spoke with an exasperating half-smile. I ought to have laughed, to be sure; I ought to have shown sense enough at any rate to hold my tongue and not to answer the gibes of this vindictive man of learning. Instead, I was stupid enough to be nettled and to lose my head. "Well," I retorted, "I must have a paying profession. That one or another what does it matter?
Up the road toward the town he drove, finally slackening his trotters' speed as he came into the more thickly settled part of the outskirts. Sand Mountain loomed high in the faint moonlight, and at its base, in the outposts of the town, arose the smoke-stack of the cotton mills. Around it lay Cottontown. Slowly he brought the nettled trotters down to a walk.
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