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The change in her father once so tender, so cheerful in his tone, so proud of and loving toward his daughter was another source of deep grief to her pure young spirit. Over him, as well as over her brother, all her power was lost; and he even avoided her, as though her presence were an offense to him. And so, when she went out from her unhappy home, she took with her no desire to return.
The latter, as such, per se, can never give offense, because they spring from absolute truth, while in those of the man there is a secondary distinction to be made: those which he utters ab irato, those which he utters ex ore, but not in corde, and those which he does utter in corde.
It was so established because Montreal, the central town, had given offense, and because the jealousy of the provinces against each other would not admit of the government being placed entirely at Quebec, or entirely at Toronto.
Ah! another destiny awaits your acceptance." Cora sighed in silence. "Now, then. Of course you must know who this correspondent is." "Without offense to you, grandfather, I neither know nor care," languidly replied the lady. "But it is not without offense to me. You are the most eccentric and inconsistent woman I ever met in all the course of my life.
In studying Elmira, however, it must be borne in mind that the best effects cannot be obtained there, owing to the lack of the indeterminate sentence. In this institution the convict can only be detained for the maximum term provided in the statute for his offense. When that is reached, the prisoner is released, whether he is reformed or not.
When Peter Siner started on his indefinite errand among the village stores he believed it would require much tact and diplomacy to discuss the race question without offense. To his surprise, no precaution was necessary.
Some of the things which I shall say in these pages will probably give offense to those governments which showed us many courtesies.
It is of no use proving to any man or to any nation that they have got all they should want, if they have not got all that they do want. If a servant desires to go, it is of no avail to show him that he has all he can desire in his present place. The Northerners say that they have given no offense to the Southerners, and that therefore the South is wrong to raise a revolution.
Cameron felt he must continue the conversation, and, raising his voice as if in anger and indeed there was no need of pretense for he longed to seize White Cloud by the throat and shake the truth out of him he said: "Trotting Wolf, your young men have been killing my cattle for many days. You know that this is a serious offense with the Police. Indians go to jail for this.
But I'm afraid that I'd be a tolerable lot like Hervey." He hurried on lest she should take offense. "You see, I don't like orders." "Of course if it were a man who made the offer to you " she began angrily. He raised his hand.
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