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Jehane did not flinch nor turn her eyes from considering her whitening wrist. 'Oh, Madame, she says, 'you will never bleed me; I am quite sure of that. Alas, it would be well if you could, without offence. 'Why, whom should I offend then? the Queen said, sniffing 'your ladyship? 'A greater, said Jehane. 'You think the King would be offended?
She had been bold, and she had disgusted his fastidious taste, and she had not meant it. She was so grateful, and she loved him so dearly, but she never would offend in that way again. Mr. Ingelow offered her his arm, but she drew back. "I will follow you," she said, in a low voice, shrinking painfully into herself. He said no more, but led the way. Mrs. Sharpe went after, Miss Dane last.
By the way, old fellow, have you got a crown or so you could spare?" Ojen unbuttons his coat and finds the crown. "Thanks, old man. Thursday evening, then. Come early so that you can help me a little with the arrangements Good Lord, silk lining! And I who asked you for a miserable crown! I hope I did not offend you." Ojen smiles and pooh-poohs the joke.
When we begin to tint our final pages with couleur de rose, as in accordance with fixed rule we must do, we altogether extinguish our own powers of pleasing. When we become dull, we offend your intellect; and we must become dull or we should offend your taste. A late writer, wishing to sustain his interest to the last page, hung his hero at the end of the third volume.
It never once entered her mind to accept him; but still it flattered her extremely that the greatest of men should declare his love for her. Why, then, need she fear him? She was so important to him, she could do so much for him, that he would surely take care not to insult or offend her.
Rushton," said Verty; "you have been very good to me, and I would not do anything to offend you or give you pain." No answer was vouchsafed to this speech either. The rough lawyer, with more and more change in his expression, was gazing at the fresh portrait, the curtain of which Verty had thrown over one of the upper corners of the frame. Verty followed the look of Mr.
"Go to her, my boy; she will not fly a second time, so like a startled hare, from your approach; tell her, had she told her father Edward Fortescue was the worthy object of her love, he would not thus have thrown a damp upon her young heart, he would not have condemned him as being incapable of loving her for herself alone. Tell her, too, the name of Philip Clapperton shall offend her no more.
"If anyone offend one of these little ones it were better for him that a millstone be hanged about his neck and that he be cast into the sea." Yet truth is truth, and should be spoken should it not, malignant monitor, who remindest me how often I fail to speak it?
Photiades Pasha, an amiable and very intelligent man, recognized the dominant fact of his position to be the necessity of keeping the favor of the Mussulman oligarchy at the capital, and he could not offend the Mussulmans of the island by even a maintenance of equal justice between the two religions.
Meadows hung his head; he saw how terribly the subtle Oriental had outwitted him; yet his presence of mind never for a moment deserted him. "Sir," said he, "I have had the misfortune to offend Mr. Levi, and he is my sworn enemy.
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