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Comte Lascaris inquires after you very frequently, and with great affection; pray answer the letter which I forwarded to you a great while ago from him. You may inclose your answer to me, and I will take care to give it him. Those attentions ought never to be omitted; they cost little, and please a great deal; but the neglect of them offends more than you can yet imagine.
Very soberly, very thoughtfully then, across the tangled, snuggling head of his own and another woman's child, he urged the torments and the comforts of his home upon this second woman. "What is there about my offer that you don't like?" he demanded earnestly. "Is it the whole idea that offends you? Or just the way I put it? 'General Heartwork for a Family of Two? What is the matter with that?
It is true, then, that he is a person who offends your taste? That is bad. Tell me about him, Musard." He reached himself a chair and sat down near the foot of the bed. "You are always making a fuss of some worthless creature," grumbled Musard. "I do not even know the man's name. They speak of him as Peter the Lucky it is a nickname he has on the streets, an apache name.
The court itself is so corrupted by the vices and immoralities which always beset courts, that it does not rally to itself the small class of devoted patriots who cannot yet resign themselves to despair, and who find in a change of persons the possibility of a revival which they hope for rather than anticipate, while it offends every day more and more deeply the equally small class of honest and patriotic reformers of the Radical side in politics.
"You're such a demanding person." "I know I am about the way things are done. What pleasure is there in anything which offends your sense of fitness?" "You bestow far too much importance on the outside of the cup and platter." Nan shook her head. "Mon verre n'est pas grand, mais Je bois dans mon verre." she quoted, frivolously obstinate. "Bah!"
“On purpose?” queried Alyosha. “I tell you you are silly, Alyosha. You know nothing about it, with all your cleverness. I am not offended that he is jealous of a girl like me. I would be offended if he were not jealous. I am like that. I am not offended at jealousy. I have a fierce heart, too. I can be jealous myself. Only what offends me is that he doesn’t love me at all.
Reciprocally, the happiness of the wicked also offends us much more than the misfortune of the good man, because we find in it a double contradiction: in the first place vice itself, and, in the second place, the recompense of vice.
I do not mean that she is fair as some are fair, but she will pass; she offends not. 'She is fair enough not beautiful, not even pleasing; but, to be just, the demure look she puts on may bear the fault of that. Rowland, I would not speak evil of any one, but your cousin is a hypocrite. She is false at heart, and she hates me.
That a mother should dislike her child offends our feelings and our conceptions of human sympathy; but that a mother should wantonly and without evidence accuse her son of a fearful crime, and be his only accuser, is a sin against humanity itself, and our reason revolts against it as much as our heart. It was hopeless to attempt an explanation of Madame Patoff's state of mind.
No clever and refined woman, with her quick perception, and nice criticism that never offends our self- love, had ever given him that education that is more precious than Universities.
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