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Madame de Verneuil had not, however, in this instance at all miscalculated the extent of her influence over the royal mind; as, instead of resenting an impertinence which was well fitted to arouse his indignation, Henry weakly condescended to justify himself, and by this unmanly concession laid the foundation of all his subsequent domestic discomfort.
Those ladies who wore not imitation lace or any lace in the morning, were scarcely displeased with the beau for his exposure of them that did. The gentlemen were confounded by his exhibition of audacious power. The two gentlemen nighest upon violently resenting his brutality to Duchess Susan, led her from the room in company with Chloe. 'The woman shall fear me to good purpose, Mr.
Or if, on the other part, there had been a household below, struggling continually to escape the necessity it was paid to meet, that it might get to its own separate interests and "privileges," if it had been utterly foreign and unsympathetic in idea and perception, only watchful that no "hand's turn" should be required of it beyond those set down in the bond, resenting every occurrence, however unavoidable, which changed or modified the day's ordering, there would speedily have come the old story of worry, discontent, unreliance, disruption.
The face looks like that of a little lord; but the body like that of a sturdy man. Such can wrestle even with a bear." "A bear is nothing for him!" said Macko. "He was younger than he is to-day, when that Fryzjan called him a beardless youth; and he resenting it, immediately pulled out the Fryzjan's mustaches." "I know," interrupted Zych, "and you fought afterward, and captured their retinue.
The recent Act of Parliament, making a crime of secret commissions to customers' employees, had been a blow to the trade in art-lustre ware, and it was no secret in the inner office that Horrocleave, resenting its interference with the natural course of business, had more than once discreetly flouted it, and thus technically transgressed the criminal law.
It was one strong will resenting another as though there was not room enough in the wide world of being for these two atoms of life, sparks from the ceaseless wheel, one making a little brighter flash than the other for the moment, and then presently darkness, and the whirring wheel which threw them off, throwing off millions of others again.
Mr. GORE then spoke as follows: Sir, the danger of introducing distinctions among men in the same rank, where every man that imagines his merit neglected, may have an opportunity of resenting the injury, is, doubtless, such as no prudent commander will venture to incur.
Eagle glanced at him as if resenting his intrusion, and asked me to bring her a candle and hold it near a mark on the tracery. The gendarme himself, apologetic but firm, stepped to the sconce and took the candle. I do not know how the thing was done, or why the old spring and long unused hinges did not stick, but his back was toward us she pushed me against the panel and it let me in.
Darrin," flared back Jetson, "I'll remain here long enough to hear you and to arrange for resenting the insult. Otherwise " "Well?" insisted Dave quietly, though his anger was rising. "Otherwise?" "Otherwise," retorted Midshipman Jetson, "I'll pursue my way and seek company that pleases me better." "Look out, Jet, old hot-plate!" laughed Joyce. "You'll soon be insulting all three of us."
"I tell you that Scotland Yard must do something must! must! must!" stormed he as Narkom, resenting that stigma upon the institution, puckered up his lips and looked savage.
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