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I bethink me, it is three hours since I saw you go to the palace. It is a few worthless seconds since you have got your freedom." She nettled at his tone. "Lord Leicester takes great interest in my unimportant goings and comings. I cannot think it is because I go and come." He chose to misunderstand her meaning. Drawing closer he bent over her shoulder.

The newspapers, chronicling Thorold's appointment briefly, were heavy with harbingering of the funeral procession of the boy who had fallen a fortnight before in the American navy's attack upon Vera Cruz. The relative values that editors placed upon the marine's death and his own honoring nettled Thorold. Ambassadors to the Court of St.

"Do that by all means; one doesn't know what one may come across on such a journey." Isidore would probably have refused, but that he felt somewhat nettled at the guide's last remark, so he took a rifle from a pile of arms that stood close by.

Royston was nettled by the laughter elicited by this query, with its obvious fervor of enthusiasm, for she divined that the merriment of the crowd was charged with ridicule of the incongruous object of his callow adoration, the forlorn old fortune-teller, who had been so gentle and so generous, albeit so alien to the civilization of the present day.

In this he was doomed to disappointment, for the other continued silent, and in silence finally turned back, his whole attitude that of one who saw nothing in the spectacle worthy of comment. Felipe followed him, nettled, and sat down and himself rolled a cigarette. As he sat smoking it the other seated himself beside him, and presently touched him on the arm and began to speak.

The man before him was no other than the one he had seen next door, dressed in red fleshings as Satan. It was not to be understood in a moment, and Theodore's parents had returned once more to the door. Indeed, the old man had beheld the momentary hand-clasp of the men, and he was nettled. "Theodore!" he cried; "you're not making friends with a man who's sneaked off and married Dorothy, I hope!

She said it kinder nettled some proud men to have it said they was beholden to their wives, but she said she told Joe that the proudest man would give in to a situation like that sooner or later. That's why the boy felt so bad, I reckon. He's sure you are going to leave this measly little hole, and that he'll never lay eyes on you again. I've tried to pacify him; but what can I do?

"So old a friend of your husband as I am, I am hopeful you and I may be friends also." Mrs. Armour saw the move. "You are very kind," she said conventionally, and offered a cup of tea. Lady Haldwell now ventured unwisely. She was nettled at the other's self-possession. "But then, in a way, I have been your friend for a long time, Mrs. Armour." The point was veiled in a vague tone, but Mrs.

Half 'o oor ventures hae failed because ye object to hurry." "Hoot, man! that's enough o't," said Spink, in the nettled tone of a man who has been a good deal worried. Indeed, the tones of both showed that these few sentences were but the continuation of a quarrel which had begun elsewhere.

"You mean to say," exclaimed Rachel, considerably nettled, "that as a woman, I am incapable of being rationally convinced!" "The proverb does not only apply to women," said Ermine, coming to her rescue; but Rachel, stung by the arch smile and slight bow of Captain Keith, continued "Let the proof be convincing, and I will meet it as candidly as it is the duty of all reasonable beings to do.